Costelloe-KuehnCommentMemo35-39Ross

memo 35
 * "describing the future in the making"
 * check out Rheinberger's excellent, short essay on "experimental systems" where he talks about the role of science (and social science?) as a machine for generating the future. I'm sending it to you now. Rheinberger also might be useful for you thinking about the "samples" of the study. His take on "objects" as process, experiment, physical thing, "trace-making" (kind of like Latour & Woolgar's "inscription devices"), etc.
 * what are the troubles with "promoting one future over another?" sounds a bit like Haraway on "casting your lot" with some ways of techno-culture-life and not others.

memo 36 - letter
 * looks great, you might want to consider adding a line to the effect of "i'll send you a transcript for editing and comments before publication" or something like that... or maybe those technicalities might be better to do later, keeping this intro simple? then again maybe attaching the form of consent right away isn't a bad idea to get it out of the way? decisions, decisions.

memo 37, irb
 * i really like the "everyday examples" of politicians, organizations, religions being confused about emergent ethical questions. really good job putting your quite complex research problem into "dinner-table" language.

memo 38 audiences
 * what about bioethicists, specifically?

memo 39 politics
 * i like the idea of "providing a language"