Anticipation and its degrees of critical-reflective radicality: opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize STI

Anticipation is increasingly recognized as a valuable dimension for promoting more responsible STI practices. Various normative frameworks acknowledge anticipation as a means to enable critique and/or reflection. However, the degrees of critique and reflection that anticipation can or should enable...

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Main Author: Sergio Urueña
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Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2024-12-01
Series:Journal of Responsible Innovation
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23299460.2023.2294537
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description Anticipation is increasingly recognized as a valuable dimension for promoting more responsible STI practices. Various normative frameworks acknowledge anticipation as a means to enable critique and/or reflection. However, the degrees of critique and reflection that anticipation can or should enable have remained under-researched. By exploring the critical-reflective affordances that anticipation could offer for problematizing STIs in the present, this article aims to advance the theoretical development of anticipation as a dimension for promoting more responsible STIs. The article suggests that the potential critical-reflective radicality of anticipation is modulated by the critical-reflective spaces of problematization and/or scrutiny afforded by the normative frameworks in which anticipation is interpreted and for which it is enacted. Against this background, the article provides some tentative variables for assessing these critical-reflective affordances and specifies the roles that different modes of anticipation might play in opening up distinct, interconnected aspects of STI to problematization and/or scrutiny.
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spelling doaj-art-144c1f3a4675438980ad11b57b9e8eb32025-01-07T13:48:20ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Responsible Innovation2329-94602329-90372024-12-0111110.1080/23299460.2023.2294537Anticipation and its degrees of critical-reflective radicality: opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize STISergio Urueña0Section of Philosophy (BMS), University of Twente, Enschede, The NetherlandsAnticipation is increasingly recognized as a valuable dimension for promoting more responsible STI practices. Various normative frameworks acknowledge anticipation as a means to enable critique and/or reflection. However, the degrees of critique and reflection that anticipation can or should enable have remained under-researched. By exploring the critical-reflective affordances that anticipation could offer for problematizing STIs in the present, this article aims to advance the theoretical development of anticipation as a dimension for promoting more responsible STIs. The article suggests that the potential critical-reflective radicality of anticipation is modulated by the critical-reflective spaces of problematization and/or scrutiny afforded by the normative frameworks in which anticipation is interpreted and for which it is enacted. Against this background, the article provides some tentative variables for assessing these critical-reflective affordances and specifies the roles that different modes of anticipation might play in opening up distinct, interconnected aspects of STI to problematization and/or scrutiny.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23299460.2023.2294537Anticipationforesightresponsible innovationcritiqueaffordances
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Anticipation and its degrees of critical-reflective radicality: opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize STI
Journal of Responsible Innovation
Anticipation
foresight
responsible innovation
critique
affordances
title Anticipation and its degrees of critical-reflective radicality: opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize STI
title_full Anticipation and its degrees of critical-reflective radicality: opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize STI
title_fullStr Anticipation and its degrees of critical-reflective radicality: opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize STI
title_full_unstemmed Anticipation and its degrees of critical-reflective radicality: opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize STI
title_short Anticipation and its degrees of critical-reflective radicality: opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize STI
title_sort anticipation and its degrees of critical reflective radicality opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize sti
topic Anticipation
foresight
responsible innovation
critique
affordances
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23299460.2023.2294537
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