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Background

STS does not study how one understands the world as given, but how constructs are shaped in understanding and rewriting. Joan Fujimura (1991) first noted the “ontological turn” which followed upon the “reflexive turn”(Woolgar & Ashmore, 1988) and the much older linguistic one (Rorty, 1967/1992). The world is populated with “epistemic objects” at an increasing pace. Through the coproduction of nature and society, we recognise ourselves as constructs among the constructs (Luhmann, 1990).