The impact of new technologies is hard to predict. We suggest the value of theories of performativity in understanding dynamics around the convergence of biomedical and information technology. Drawing on the ideas of Butler and Foucault, we discuss a new, internal, context for HCI and raise potentially disturbing issues with monitoring health. We argue that by adopting explicitly social framing...

People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) are beginning to proliferate worldwide. become gay for various reasons, such personal ones, cultural and environmental ones. By employing Butler's postcolonial performativity theory, this study explores the topic of sexualism that differed from movie Out in Dark (2012). The study's goals demonstrate Nimr Roy's performative ide...

Economic Discourses and Economic Dispositives On Coordination: Stories and Meaning Making in Markets | by Sophie Mützel_4 Dispositive, Discourse and the Economy | by Dietmar J. Wetzel_10 “Days of Revelation” | by Ronald Hartz_17 Spectral Performativity | by Jens Maeße_25 How the Firm Became Consultable | by Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg_32 Justification, Conventions, and Institutions in Economic...

We link the concept of an ‘organizing vision’ to the idea of ‘performativity’ in order to better understand the challenges associated with implementing integrated care, i.e. the usage of ICT in order to coordinate medical treatments of the same patient by multiple medical professionals. More specifically, we focus on how medical autonomy affects the performativity of an organizing vision. Throu...

In line with the shift towards prioritising lay accounts and narratives of chronic illness in sociology, there is an emerging literature on men, their subjectivities and experiences of mental distress. We argue in this paper that subjectivities and distress among men are an important area for critical sociological research. Very little is known about men's subjectivities or the meanings they gi...

The paper undertakes a textual and documentary analysis of the Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products Regulation, which was passed into law in the European Union (EU) in 2007. This law is significant for the development of regenerative medicine in the EU and globally. Regulatory texts such as this one provide significant material for addressing key concerns in recent theorising about innovative te...