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Publications

Edited Volumes/Special Issues

The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory (Co-Eds. Anders Blok & Celia Roberts), London, New York: Routledge, 2019
Re-learning Design: Pedagogical Experiments with STS in Design Studio Courses (Co-Ed. Tomás S. Criado), in Journal Diseña, 2018
Technical Democracy as a Challenge for Urban Studies (Co-Ed. Anders Blok), in Journal CITY, 2016
Urban Cosmopolitics: Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres (Co-Ed. Anders Blok), London, New York: Routledge, 2016
Studio Studies. Operations, Topologies & Displacements (Co-Ed. Alex Wilkie). London, New York: Routledge, CRESC Book Series, 2015
Cosmopolíticas (Co-Ed. Israel Rodriguez und David Rojas), in Journal of political theory Pléyade, Number 14, December 2014
Comunicaciones, Semánticas y Redes. Usos y Desviaciones de la Sociología de Niklas Luhmann (Co-Ed. José Ossandón). Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana Editores, 2011
Urban assemblages. How actor-network theory changes urban studies (Co-Ed. Thomas Bender). London, New York: Routledge, 2009
Observando Sistemas. Nuevas apropiaciones y usos de la teoría de Niklas Luhmann (Co-Ed. José Ossandón). Santiago de Chile: RIL Editores, 2006

Journal Articles/Book Chapters

2019

"Actor-network theory as a companion: an inquiry into intellectual practices" (with Anders Blok and Celia Roberts). In: Blok, Anders/Farías, Ignacio/ Roberts, Celia: The Routledge companion to Actor-Network Theory. London: Routledge, pp. xx-xxxv
“Urban Cosmopolitics” (with Anders Blok). In: Schwanen, Tim/van Kempen, Ronald (Eds): Handbook of Urban Geography, Cheltenham, Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar, pp. 47-62

2018

“Re-learning Design: Pedagogical Experiments with STS in Design Studio Courses” (with Tomás S. Criado), Diseña, N. 12: 14-29
“Co-laborations, Entrapments, Intraventions: Pedagogical Approaches to Technical Democracy in Architectural Design” (with Tomás S. Criado), Diseña, N. 12: 228-255

2019 - German version: Erfahrung.

2017

“Ordinary smart cities: How calculated users, professional citizens, technology companies and city administrations engage in a more-than-digital politics” (with Sarah Widmer). Technoscienza, Vol. 8(2): 43-60
“Sourcing Newness. Ways of Inducing Indeterminacy” (with Michael Hutter). Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 10(5): 434-449
“An Idiotic Catalyst. Accelerating the Slowing Down of Thinking and Action”. Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 32(1): 34-40
“A different state of exception: Governing urban reconstruction in post 27-F Chile” (with Patricio Flores). Urban Studies 54(5): 1108-1125
„STS in the City“ (with Anders Blok). In: Miller, Clark A./Felt, Ulrike/Fouché, Ray/Smith-Doerr, Laurel (Eds.) Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

2016

“Introduction: Technical Democracy as a Challenge for Urban Studies” (with Anders Blok). CITY: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, Vol. 20, Issue 4: 539-548
“Devising Hybrid Forums: Technical Democracy in a Dangerous World”. CITY: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, Vol. 20, Issue 4: 549-562
„Assemblages“. In: Jayne, Mark/Ward, Kevin (Eds.): Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 41-50
„Humans as Vectors and Intensities. Becoming Urban in Berlin and New York City“. (with Stephan Hoehne) In: Deleuze and the City. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 17-32
“Introducing urban cosmopolitics. Multiplicity and the search for a common world” (with A. Blok). In: Blok, Anders/Farías, Ignacio (Eds.) Urban Cosmopolitics. Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres. London: Routledge, pp. 1-22
“Whose urban cosmos, which urban cosmopolitics? Assessing the route travelled and the one ahead” (with A. Blok). In: Blok, Anders/Farías, Ignacio (Eds.) Urban Cosmopolitics. Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres. London: Routledge, pp. 227-244

2015

“Städtisches Leben von und mit Schadstoffen. Materielle Intimität als Einschränkung urbaner Dingpolitik”. Berliner Blätter. Ethnographische und ethnologische Beiträge 69: 70-83
„Building a park, immunising life: Environmental management and radical asymmetry“ (with Manuel Tironi), Geoforum, Vol. 66: 167-175
“Culture and ANT” (mit Sophie Mützel), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2ndEdition
„Studio Studies: Notes for a research Programme“ (with Alex Wilkie). In: Studio Studies: Operations, Topologies & Displacements. London: Routledge
„Studio operations: Manipulation, storage and hunting in desert landscapes“. In: Studio Studies: Operations, Topologies & Displacements. London: Routledge

2014

“Improvising a market, making a model. Social housing policy in Chile during Pinochet’s neoliberal ‘modernisation’ and post-disaster reconstruction after the 2010 earthquake”, in Economy and Society

2015 - German version

“Misrecognizing tsunamis: ontological politics and cosmopolitical challenges in early warning systems”, in Sociological Review Vol. 62(S1): 61-87

2019 - Spanish version

2013

“Epistemische Dissonanz. Zur Vervielfältigung von Entwurfsalternativen in der Architektur“, in S. Ammon & E. Froschauer (Eds.) Wissenschaft Entwerfen? Vom forschenden Entwerfen zur Entwurfsforschung der Architektur. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2013, S. 76-107

2015 - English Version: „Epistemic Dissonance. Reconfiguring valuation in architectural practice“. In: Berthoin Antal, Ariane/Hutter, Michael/Stark, David (Eds.): Moments of Valuation. Exploring Sites of Dissonance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015: 271-289

“Heteronomie und Notwendigkeit. Wie Architekt/innen Wettbewerbsbeiträge entwickeln“, in M. Tauschek (Ed.) Kulturen des Wettbewerbs. Waxmann, S. 173-193

2017 - Spanish version: „Heteronomía y Necesidad. El Ensamblaje de Proyectos para Concursos de Arquitectura“. In: Rodríguez Morató, Arturo/Santana-Acuña, Álvaro (Eds.) La Nueva Sociología de las Artes. Barcelona: Gedisa, 2017, pp. 245-267

2012

“La diferenciación de los colectivos. Ensamblajes, comunicaciones y simetría total”, in D. López & F. Tirado (Eds.) Teoría del actor-red: más allá de los estudios de ciencia y tecnología. Barcelona, Editorial Amentia, S. 301-330

2014 - English version: “Virtual attractors, actual assemblages: How Luhmann’s theory of communication complements actor-network theory”, in European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 17(1): 24-41

“Destinations as virtual objects of tourist communication”, in R. van der Duim, G. T. Jóhannesonn & C. Ren (Eds.) Actor-Network Theory and Tourism: Ontologies, Methodologies und Performances. London: Routledge, S. 128-145
“Kulturen als soziomaterielle Welten”, in P. Birle, M. Dewey & A. Mascareno (Eds.) Durch Luhmanns Brille. Herausforderungen an Gesellschaft, Politik und Recht in Lateinamerika und in der Weltgesellschaft. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, S. 173-204

2014 - Spanish version: “Cultura: la performación de mundos sociomateriales”, in Convergencia: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Vol. 21(64): 65-91

2011

“The politics of urban assemblages”, CITY: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, Vol. 15(3-4), S. 365-374
"Ensamblajes urbanos: La TAR y la exploración de la ciudad”, Athenea Digital. Revista de Pensamiento e Investigacion Social, Vol. 20, S. 15-40
“Tourist maps as diagrams of destination space”, Space and Culture, Vol. 14(3): 398-414
“Luhmann para qué?/Why Luhmann?” (with José Ossandón), in I. Farías & J. Ossandón (Eds.) Comunicaciones, Semánticas y Redes. Usos y Desviaciones de la Sociología de Niklas Luhmann. Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana Verlag, S. 11-62

2010

“Adieu à Bourdieu? Asimetrías, límites y paradojas en la noción de habitus”, in Convergencia: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Vol. 17(54): 11-34
“Sightseeing buses: cruising, timing and the montage of attractions”, Mobilities, Vol. 5(3): 387-407
“Spatial arrangements and mediation in sightseeing bus-tours”, in J. Richter (Ed.) The Tourist City Berlin: Tourism & Architecture. Berlin: Verlagshaus Braun, S. 201-219

2009

“Introduction: Decentering the object of urban studies”, in I. Farías & T. Bender (Eds.) Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies. London, New York: Routledge, S. 1-24
“The reality of urban tourism: Framed activity and virtual ontology”, in I. Farías & T. Bender (Eds.) Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies. London, New York: Routledge, S. 209-228
“Intimidad cultural en espacios de consumo. El Mall Plaza Vespucio y la imposibilidad de una cultura pública”, in M. Tironi & F. Pérez (Eds.) SCL: Espacios, Prácticas y Cultura Urbana en Santiago de Chile. Santiago de Chile: ARQ Editores, S. 16-29
“Buses turísticos en Santiago: identidad y límites de la representación social (mit José Ossandón and Mirja Busch), Revista 180, Vol. 23: 52-55

2007

“Destination Berlin. Orderings of city-identity in contemporary tourist guidebooks”, in Zeithistorische Forschungen. Studies in Contemporary History, Vol. 4(3): 422-433
“La persistencia de lo nacional. La reunificación alemana y la distinción Ossi/Wessi”, in Re-Lea. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Avanzados. Vol. 24: 107-150

2006

“A la búsqueda del ‘urbanismo europeo’: Un reporte desde Berlín”, in EURE. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Urbano Regionales, Vol. 31(94): 119-127
“Recontextualizando Luhmann. Lineamientos para una lectura contemporánea” (with José Ossandón), in I. Farías & J. Ossandón (Eds.) Observando Sistemas. Nuevas apropiaciones y usos de la teoría de Niklas Luhmann. Santiago de Chile: RIL Editores, S. 17-54
“Cultura: la distinction de unidades societales”, in I. Farías & J. Ossandón (Eds.) Observando Sistemas. Nuevas apropiaciones y usos de la teoría de Niklas Luhmann. Santiago de Chile: RIL Editores, S. 323-364

2005

“Zukunft zum Greifen nah. Strukturelle Bedingungen, Semantiken und Verortung des Berliner Stadtmarketing”, in Berliner Blätter, Vol. 37(3): 22-31

2002

“Elementos para el estudio de la cultura”, in Revista MAD, Vol. 6: 1-36

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