Anticipation: Technoscience, life, affect, temporality

Ethnographies of Austerity: Temporality, Crisis and Affect in Southern Europe

This article focuses on how the economic crisis in Southern Europe has stimulated temporal thought (temporality), whether tilted in the direction of historicizing, presentifying, or futural thought, provoking people to rethink their relationship to time. The argument is developed with particular reference to the ethnographies of living with austerity inside the eurozone contained in this specia...

Does anticipation training affect drivers' risk taking?

Skill and risk taking are argued to be independent and to require different remedial programs. However, it is possible to contend that skill-based training could be associated with an increase, a decrease, or no change in risk-taking behavior. In 3 experiments, the authors examined the influence of a skill-based training program (hazard perception) on the risk-taking behavior of car drivers (us...

Probing technoscience

In the last three decades, the attention of sociologists, historians and philosophers of science was more and more attracted by the concept ‘‘technoscience.’’ It emphasizes an entanglement of science and technology and it was mainly raised to distinguish a ‘‘new’’ type of scientific activities from ‘‘traditional’’ ones with a different epistemic interest producing different objects with a diffe...

A few comments about temporality and anticipation in the neurosciences, psychology and psychiatry

Anticipation of affect in dysthymia: behavioral and neurophysiological indicators.

Anticipation for future affective events and prediction uncertainty were examined in healthy controls and individuals with dysthymia (DYS) using behavioral responses and the contingent negative variation (CNV) and post-imperative negative variation (PINV) event-related potential (ERP) components. Warning stimuli forecasted the valence of subsequently presented adjectives ("+", positive; "=", ne...