Jurisgenerative Tissues: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Legal Secretions of 3D Bioprinting

Shaw, Joshua; Mykitiuk, Roxanne

doi:10.1007/s10978-022-09319-0

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“…The body is simultaneously an object of regulation and a site of experience, which together mediate legal sensibilities (Hyde 1997). Further, as Roxanne Mykitiuk (1994, 84) argues, the body and its corporeal matters possess a certain "recalcitrance"-a capacity for agency or affection of its own-that shapes, while it is concurrently reconstructed in, law (also see Shaw 2021;Shaw and Mykitiuk 2022). Insights about law and the body have aided scholars like Sarat (2001) in attending to the sensibilities that shape punishment and the regulation of death.…”

Section: Pain As Punishmentmentioning

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When Prisoners’ “Right to Die” Goes Online: A Case-Study of Legal and Penal Sensibilities

Shaw

Konikoff²

2022

Can. j. law soc.

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Prisoners in Canadian federal penitentiaries can obtain medical assistance in dying (MAiD). This raises questions about the nature and legitimacy of pain and death in incarceration. The authors analyze responses to a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation online news article discussing the provision of MAiD to prisoners. The comments exemplify different sensibilities about the state’s lethality with respect to prisoners. These sensibilities—both legal and penal—draw on an array of cultural referents to orient to prisoners’ deaths generally, but also MAiD specifically. The authors explore how certain referents factor in these legal and penal sensibilities and appear to mediate commenters’ judgements. For example, capital punishment factors significantly in conversations about MAiD for prisoners, as well as imaginations of prisoners’ bodies in pain. As a result, there is a spectacularization of prisoners’ carceral death, despite the humane, “civilized” death MAiD provides, which circumscribes how some commenters imagine the procedure and prisoners’ deaths.

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Section: Pain As Punishmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

When Prisoners’ “Right to Die” Goes Online: A Case-Study of Legal and Penal Sensibilities

Shaw

Konikoff²

2022

Can. j. law soc.

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Hearts and minds: The technopolitical role of affect in sociotechnical imaginaries

Hughes

2024

Soc Stud Sci

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Sociotechnical imaginaries (SIs) have emerged as a popular and generative concept within Science and Technology Studies (STS). This article draws out the affective component of SIs, combining a review of relevant literatures with an empirical case study of an anti-fracking imaginary in Ireland to suggest how we might theorize an affective technopolitics of SIs. The literature review identifies three key aspects of SIs that would benefit from a more coherent conceptualization of affect: the utopian, productive, and collectivizing dimensions of imaginaries. Emotions such as desire and fear appear prominently in the SI literature, but in ways that require development. Using empirical examples from my research, I outline what this developed understanding of emotions in imaginaries might look like. I examine the role that emotions played in the development and settlement of an anti-fracking imaginary in Ireland, highlighting how the intensive, multimodal, and dynamic nature of affect underpinned the productive, collective, and utopian dimensions of the SI. I conclude with some remarks about how this developed theory of emotion positions STS researchers to address issues of humanity, representation, and the building of better worlds.

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Jurisgenerative Tissues: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Legal Secretions of 3D Bioprinting

Cited by 2 publications

References 56 publications

When Prisoners’ “Right to Die” Goes Online: A Case-Study of Legal and Penal Sensibilities

When Prisoners’ “Right to Die” Goes Online: A Case-Study of Legal and Penal Sensibilities

Hearts and minds: The technopolitical role of affect in sociotechnical imaginaries

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