TY - JOUR AU - Mehrabi, Tara PY - 2018/06/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Being intimate with flies: on affective methodologies and laboratory work JF - Kvinder, Køn & Forskning JA - KKF VL - 27 IS - 1 SE - Essays DO - 10.7146/kkf.v27i1.109681 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/KKF/article/view/109681 SP - 73-80 AB - <p>Situated within feminist technoscience studies and affect theory, this article explores the&nbsp;methodological specificities of working with <em>Drosophila Melanogaster</em>, commonly known as fruit&nbsp;flies. Based on a year of participatory observation in a fly lab, the article challenges the modernist&nbsp;imaginaries of laboratory work as disembodied, detached and objective. It suggests that laboratory&nbsp;work is instead an interactive, embodied and affective process that takes place in proximity&nbsp;between human and non-human, subject and object. The article therefore contributes to&nbsp;earlier feminist science studies arguing that doing science is an interactive, procedural, socio-cultural&nbsp;phenomenon. However, while most such previous works focus on issues such as connections,&nbsp;companionship, love and empathy, this article asks what&nbsp; ethodological contributions can&nbsp;come from experiencing the intensity of more than human encounters that inspire undesirable&nbsp;feelings such as disgust.</p> ER -