U.S. Public Health Service, 127–28

Universal Stock Ticker, 53

University Innovation Alliance, 142

university labs, 40–41, 50; AMG, 60, 61, 155, 166, 168–72; art institutes as, 135–36; CLEAR, 115–16, 221, 241, 245; entrepreneurship promoted in, 156–57, 160, 189, 210–12; gray literature for, 112; Home Economics Food Lab, 117, 118–20; HumlabX, 148–49, 184; interdepartmentality of, 142–43; MAL, University of Colorado Boulder, 82, 92, 101, 102–4, 254n67; Media Archaeology Lab (Bilkent University), 229; MLab, 81, 92, 94–96, 218, 235, 267n13; PA-MAL Media Archaeology Lab (L’École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon), 92; Rad Lab, 61, 159, 209–10, 212; scientists’ role in, 158–59; Signal Laboratory (Humboldt University), 81–82, 85, 88, 93–94, 100–101; Trope Tank, 92, 102, 222; university patent offices, 210–11. See also ACTLab (Austin, Texas); educational function of labs; Media Archaeological Fundus (MAF, Humboldt University, Berlin); MIT Media Lab; photographs of French-language media lab (Middlebury College)

university labs, funding for: Epstein and, 161–63, 176, 242, 261n10; by government, 125, 147, 159; MIT Media Lab, 61, 154, 160, 161–64, 167, 176, 242, 261n10; for Rad Lab, 159, 256n26; tuition, 139, 162. See also corporate-sponsored university labs; funding sources

university labs, infrastructure and policy of, 101, 111–12, 136–48; of CLEAR, 115–16, 136; funding issues, 115, 139, 141, 147, 148–49, 210–11; home economics labs, 117–25, 127; New American University (Arizona Model), 141–48; studio-labs, 137–38. See also infrastructure and policy, analytic category of

University of Colorado Boulder, 82

University of Manitoba, 117–18, 198

University of Oxford, 52

University of Victoria, 81, 92, 235

University of Virginia, 80

University Research Council, 123–24

“Unnameable Discourse,” 178

Urban5 project, 172–73, 263n76

urban space as lab, 231

“urban,” term as coded language, 263n76

Urry, John, 12

Ursuline nuns, 117

utilities companies, 126

Vail, Theodore, 207

value, production of, 155–56; management practice and, 163–67

van den Oever, Annie, 96

vanguardism, 211

Van Vechten Brown, Alice, 135

variantology, 145

Veblen, Thorstein, 164

video-game consoles, 226

Vigneron, Marcel, 18

Virtual Community, The (Rheingold), 251n8

virtual labs, 40, 41, 177, 251n8. See also bounded and unbounded space

virtual reality (VR), 244

virtual witnessing, 190–91

Vismann, Cornelia, 215

von Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm, 256n37

Von Fraunhofer, Joseph, 48

Von Hippel, Eric, 232–33

Vonk, Roland, 236

von Schrenck-Notzing, Albert, 198

Wall Street Journal, 147

Washington, Booker T., 129, 132

Weber, Cornelia, 97

We Have Never Been Modern (Latour), 7

Weingart, Peter, 141, 142

Weiser, Mark, 38

Weisner, Jerome, 60

Wellesley College, 135

Westerlund, Mika, 232, 268n50

Western-centered discussions, 240

Whale, James, 19

“What Are Research Infrastructures?” (Anderson), 110

“What Is a Feminist Lab?” (symposium), 241

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future (Ito and Howe), 62, 253n53

Whitehead, Alfred North, 195

white people: lab directors and, 176; techno-humanist projects and, 169, 171–72, 173; white USDA workers, 131–32. See also Black people; marginalized groups; race

“Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?” (Latour), 154

Wiener, Norbert, 53

Wilding, Faith, 184

Wilkie, Alex, 214–15

Williams, Raymond, 33

Wilson, Johanna Gudrun, 118, 121–22, 124

Winn, J. Emmett, 131, 259n65

Winnipeg School of Household Science, 117–18

Wired magazine, 160, 167

Wojcik, Daniel, 204

women: at Agricultural College, 125; Epstein and, 163; space walks, 108; “working feminism” and, 127. See also gender

women, lab use by: Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women, 252n29; Bell Labs, 266n43; French-language lab, 15, 23; in home economics labs, 118–23, 126, 127; Hyphen-Labs and, 243–44; kitchens and, 52; MIT Media Lab, 70–71, 161; prohibited or assumed they won’t participate, 49, 52, 63, 252n29

Wondrich, David, 3

Woolgar, Steve, 154; on apparatus, 14; on inscription process, 29–30, 100; on lab definition and operations, 25, 26; on scientific writing, 30–31; on space, differential relations, 11, 29; on technique, 22. See also Latour, Bruno

work. See labor, lab-related

workshop or processing environment labs, 27

world as lab, 191, 209, 265n13

World Challenge, The (Servan-Schreiber), 173

World War II, 255n26

Wuhan Institute of Virology, 246

Xerox PARC, 38

XPRIZE Foundation, 175–76

Yamani, Sheikh, 173

Yokoi, Gunpei, 194–95

Yùdice, George, 42

Zero Dollar Laptop, 101

Zielinski, Siegfried, 8, 19, 145, 238

Žižek, Slavoj, 19

Zuckerman, Ethan, 69–71, 160–61