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Speech, signal, symptom : machine listening and the remaking of psychiatric assessment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This multi-sited, ethnographic dissertation follows teams of psychiatric and engineering professionals collaborating to tackle one of Western psychiatry's longest standing issues: the subjective nature of mental illness. ...
Truffle crops and soil drugs : new fungal practices and epistemologies for the 21st century
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Perigord truffles (Tuber melanosporum) have, over the past 200 years, become a cultivated crop grown across the globe. Since the 1890s, soil microbes have been commodified to "fertilize" agricultural crops (and are now ...
The kernel of doubt : agricultural biotechnology, braided temporalities, and agrarian environments in India
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Genetically modified (GM) cotton, Bt cotton was introduced in India in 2002 through a joint venture company, Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech (India) Private Limited (MMB). It is a collaboration between the Indian agricultural ...
The work of art in the age of its technoscientific re-enhancement : recasting light, Colloids, and microbes for art and heritage conservation in U.S. and Italian laboratories
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This ethnography tracks a diverse set of scientific practices that have developed new technologies for the conservation of artworks and cultural heritage. I examine how scientists in physics, chemistry, and biology have ...
Afterlives of extinction : the politics of display in the modern United States
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Long extinct animals have a powerful hold on the American popular imagination. Dinosaurs, in particular, have been iconic and pervasive representatives of a planetary past for much of the twentieth century. While natural ...
The subjects of modernism : mathematics, art, and the politics of value in twentieth-century United States
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
My dissertation illuminates the status of mathematical knowledge in relation to other intellectual domains and racialized social forms-particularly American Orientalism-in the twentieth-century United States. Observers and ...
Transnational biopolitics and family-making in secrecy : an ethnography of reproductive travel from Turkey to Northern Cyprus
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of reproductive travel between Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Based on interviews and observations primarily carried out in a private In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) clinic in Northern ...