ABSTRACT
Instead of world-viewing, a feminist approach to science and technology encourages an approach of world-making. Relying too heavily on vision (our “view”) imports a problematic Western tradition that assumes the possibility of a disinterested gaze “from nowhere” at distant objects “over there”. Meanwhile, feminist studies of science assumes that we are always intimately situated within the world, amongst things. World-making has two advantages: we bypass a futile constructivist-realist debate, and we also insist on world-making as always ethical. Who and what appear as agents in these worlds, and who and what are rendered invisible in the landfills or subterranean pipes? The second part of the chapter offers an example of this world-making approach in action by engaging with the politics of the Anthropocene. Climate and earth systems science needs art, humanities, and global political studies to conceive of multiple modes of relating to, and living more sensitively, on the earth.
