The aim of the Dis-Positions book series is to bring together recent work in the emerging intersections of such disciplines as sociology, anthropology, history, geography, design and philosophy, not least as they bear on the broad field of science and technology studies (STS). Conversely, if STS is undergoing major shifts in how it engages with ‘the social’ and the question of ‘societies’, it raises vital matters of concern for these various disciplines and their inter-connections. Dis-Positions thus provides a platform on which varieties of generative mutualities across these areas of scholarship can be presented.

In this respect, Dis-Positions is undergirded by a desire to promote novel fields of enquiry, adventurous theoretical and empirical projects, and inventive methodological practices. It seeks to encourage authors to address live debates while drawing on and interrogating developments across academic areas, in the process disturbing and repatterning STS. In pursuing this ethos Dis-Positions comprises consolidated, rigorous and proactive space through which new creative and critical perspectives in STS and beyond can find a voice. Under this rubric fall discussions of the post-human, post-colonial, affective and aesthetic; methodological inventions that incorporate speculative, engaged, entangled and socio-material practices; empirical novelty that ranges from emergent technoscientific innovations to reformulations of the ordinary; and conceptually creative and critical developments that capture processual and pluralistic thought, extensions of assemblage and practice theories, and the turns to affect and post-performativity.