Richard Rottenburg is professor of science and technology studies at Wits University. He is the founder of the research network "Law, Organization, Science and Technology" (LOST). Inspired by social studies of science and technology, renditions of pragmatist social theory and the material-semiotic approach, forms of technicization are at the heart of his current work. His inquiries foreground the making of evidence and infrastructure and ask how related practices are mobilized to design and critique emergent futures. He is mainly known for his book Far-fetched Facts (2009, Cambridge: MIT) that crosses the boundaries between anthropology and STS and defines a new departure for the examination of science and technology beyond the West.
