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
Weiser, Mark, 38
Weisner, Jerome, 60
Wellesley College, 135
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
Winnipeg School of Household Science, 117–18
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