Helen Verran, Giles Campbell-Wright and Nicholas B. de Weydenthal, "Interview with Helen Verran - Part 2 of 2", contributed by Benjamin Nicoll, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 5 August 2018, accessed 31 December 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/interview-helen-verran-part-2-2
Critical Commentary
This is Part 2 of a two-part video interview with Helen Verran, a key figure in Australian Science and Technology Studies.
Part 2 covers Helen Verran's concepts
Part 1 covers Helen Verran's background / STS in Australia and its relationship to STS overseas, and can be found here.
Timestamps:
Helen Verran’s concepts
00:00 Own work: tensions between philosophy and anthropology
01:20 The disconcertment
04:47 Becoming a knowing self
07:33 Material-semiotics
08:30 Making explicit metaphysical commitments
11:40 Ontics (vs ontology)
14:25 Ethics and politics in Helen’s work by way of ontology (ontological turn in anthropology)
19:35 Working in good faith
24:06 Comparison and Participant Comparison
26:04 Ethnography and generative work
29:15 Influences
35:36 Interlocutors
40:31 How students and intellectual friends relate to Helen’s work and how this work can be taken further
43:05 Management and organization studies