This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Doyeon Shin can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/05/revisiting-human-machine-relationships-and-efforts-of-feminist-sts/. About the post: Feminist STS perspectives and critiques are fundamental in this reimagining of human-machine relationships because they open new prospects for pondering related mainstream ideas while raising questions on what people perceive as natural and take for granted. Based on these feminist STS perspectives, I believe that we can propose different views and explanations of human-machine relationships. By focusing on relationality and not on novel functional developments, we may be able to view smartphones as active actants[1], that relate with us, just like biotic actants such as humans.

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