Sensitizing

Practices
New Media Writing
Gabrys And Pritchard

Sensing practices refer to the ways in which sensing

and practice emerge, take hold and form
attachments across environmental, material, political
and aesthetic concerns, subjects and milieus (394).
Gabrys And Pritchard

Sensors do not merely capture environmental data,

but rather they are involved in collaborative sensing
practices for parsing environments and environmental
problems, as well as organizing approaches for how to
take action and generate political responses through
particular forms of environmental citizenship (395-396).
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This common world is not so much a place where
entities agree to show up, but rather is a milieu among
a diversity of milieus that is actively made
through shared inhabitations and experiences
(396).
Gabrys And Pritchard

Citizen sensing also constitutes

a set of sensing practices that is
meant to enable and empower
people to sense for political
effect (394).
 How do we make ourselves actually sensitive
(315)?
Latour

To capture that activity, I will use the word

aesthetic—in the original Greek sense of
aisthesis—perception, or making oneself
sensitive to something (315).
 If we remember the etymological sense of
Latour

aesthetic as making sense, how does a specific

medium render us sensitive to things as they
come to us? Things can come to you, but if you
don’t render yourself sensitive to them, you just
don’t get it (319).
 How do we make ourselves sensible not to matters of
fact as they are fictionalized in the subject-object
Latour

scenario, but rather to matters of concern? Matters of

concern are still material. It's not so much their
factuality or materiality that should interest us, but our
concern with them. How can art and science
sensitize us to these concerns (319)?
 It’s a very difficult question of
producing the right kind of
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communication to register on
the already-insensitive, to
produce the right register in
which to make an address
(323).
Phyphox iNaturalist The Architecture of Radio Merlin Bird ID
Latour

It gets modified, mobilized, or moved—and you are then

moved by the thing you move, which is the most
interesting relation we have with the world (321).
Sensitizing
Practices
New Media Writing