Novos cadernos de laboratório e novas culturas epistêmicas: entre a política do experimento e o experimento da política

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Anne Danielle Soares Clinio dos
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Brasil; Escola de Comunicação; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação; IBICT/UFRJ
• Palavras-chave em Português: Cultura epistêmica; Caderno de laboratório; Open Notebook Science; Caderno Aberto de Laboratório Cidadão; Ciência Aberta; Ciência Comum; Epistemic Culture; Laboratory notebook; Citizen Laboratory Open Notebook; Open science; Common science; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::CIENCIA DA INFORMACAO
• Link de acesso: http://ridi.ibict.br/handle/123456789/943

We describe and analyze new epistemic cultures (KNORR-CETINA, 1999) that are being engendered by two emerging modes of science - Open Science and Common Science - that, despite numerous differences, converge on two aspects: the critique of scientific fact and their strategy of transforming laboratory notebooks into their main literary technology. We have adopted the notion of epistemic culture to operationalise our analysis of knowledge production systems strategies to configurate technologies, epistemic objects and subjects that, in turn, create effects of truth. To do so, we are inspired by laboratory ethnographies and Shapin and Shaffer's (1985) "three technologies" approach elaborated to explain how natural philosophers of the seventeenth century constructed the notion of scientific fact (matter of fact) so solid that it became synonym of science. Similarly, we aimed to understand how emerging modes of science seek to legitimize new ways of producing knowledge and disputing the very notion of science. In the contemporary Open Science movement, we approach open notebook science, proposed in 2006 by professor and researcher in Chemistry Jean-Claude Bradley as "a way of doing science in which - in the best possible way - you make all your research free and accessible to the public in real time" (BRADLEY, Sep 2010). We entered his "open laboratory" through documentary research that identified the open notebook as the main element of a complex ecosystem of open collaboration. Articulated with new social and material technologies, this literary technology aims to replace a science based on trust with one based on transparency and data provenance. Its epistemic culture does not impose a scientific fact as a sine qua non condition for knowledge communication, but values, above all, the adequate record of experimental practice whatever its outcome is - an epistemic culture that we have named a "matter of proof", given its emphasis on documentation. In Common Science (LAFUENTE, ESTALELLA, 2015), we investigated the open notebook of citizens' laboratory (CALC in spanish) prototyped by Antonio Lafuente and documentation practices of mediator- researchers at Medialab Prado, a public institution in Madrid that calls itself a "citizen's laboratory". Here, the critique of scientific fact dialogues with Latour´s compositionism since it is understood as an (important) subset of reality, which, however, should not supersede political debates, but rather relate to “matters of concern". In this perspective, the epistemic modernization process would foster a "third sector of knowledge" that would dispute the anticipatory governance of technoscientific subjects (LAFUENTE, 2007). Our participant observation has observed that current documentation practices tend to reproduce the logic of a cultural production field that fosters new political imaginaries, but does not initiate the knowledge accumulation cycle that would transform citizen laboratories into centre of calculation (LATOUR, 2000). Promoters tend to reduce communication to publicity of activities, attracting potential participants; or accountability, to prove that they carried out the projects.