Когато звездите изчезнат. За конституирането на астрономическите обекти и тяхната автономност
When the Stars Disappear. The Constitution of Astronomical Objects and Their Autonomy

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents an attempt at analysis of the process of the constitution of the scientific object. Examining the case of astronomy, in particular the field of the National Astronomical Observatory Rozhen, the paper focuses on a “crisis” situation, which authors have witnessed during the summer school “Science, technology, innovations”, part of the curricula of the students in Sociology of law, economics, and innovation at Plovdiv University. The concepts of research object, scientific knowledge, observation are questioned in the way that they appear in an actual research situation. Nota bene: the structure of the presentation follows a logics of a “blown up” temporality – time does not pass, it does not follow; it explodes into the epicenter of the presented “crises” situation. It is the “crises” since it is actual “trials of strengths” (Latour), that make its own time, space, filling an order (of the astronomical everyday life)…

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