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NETWORK FOUNDER

Richard Rottenburg
Department of Anthropology and Philosophy University of Halle
Reichardtstrasse 11
06114 Halle (Saale), Germany
+49 345 55-24 200
rottenburg@lost-research-group.org

While Anthropology is well-established as a discipline, Organization Studies and STS are vigorous transdisciplinary fields. A growing academic current mingles these three fields and thereby engenders provocative insights. Working at the intersection of these fields and fusing their approaches, we emphasize the legal and ethical dimensions of fact-making in the contemporary. The acronym LOST stands for Law, Organization, Science and Technology. The ambition of our detailed ethnographies is to respond to long-standing questions raised in social theory and philosophy and vice-versa, to render those questions into ethnographic inquiries. We address issues of planetary scope, although several of our empirical projects are situated in Africa. Since its inception in 2002, LOST has expanded – from a small group localized in Halle to a decentralized network of independent scholars.