Winter 2026 Reading Group: Lucy Suchman Essays / Human-Machine Reconfigurations

dawn · December 19, 2025, 3:54pm

Priming us for the fourth edition of our reading group with Social.coop. Let’s read over 4ish sessions over the winter !

~~We’ll aim to start end of January.~~

Kick-off Wed Feb 4: CoSocial Reading Group: Intros for Lucy Suchman and plan · Luma

Book and Papers

Planning to start with 2 of:

Suchman, L. (2002). “Located accountabilities in technology production,” "Located accountabilities in technology production" by Lucy Suchman
Suchman, L. (1993). Do categories have politics?. Do categories have politics? | Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (could be fun to read with Winner’s “Do artifacts have politics?”)

Then turn the newer edition of her book:

Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions by Lucy A. Suchman | Goodreads (2007)

Proposed Reading Plan

Session 1: FEB 4

Link: CoSocial Reading Group: Intros for Lucy Suchman and plan · Luma

Suchman, L. (2002). “Located accountabilities in technology production,” "Located accountabilities in technology production" by Lucy Suchman
Suchman, L. (1993). Do categories have politics?. Do categories have politics? | Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (could be fun to read with Winner’s “Do artifacts have politics?”)

Session 2: MAR

Human-machine reconfigurations : plans and situated actions. First third (pg 1-84) but focused on 2 chapters

Session 3: APR

Human-machine reconfigurations. Second third (pg 85-175) but we’ll again pick two chapters

Session 4: MAY

Human-machine reconfigurations. Last third (pg 176-186) with a focus on two chapters

jamie · January 13, 2026, 1:00am

(I’m new. Is this being discussed elsewhere? I wouldn’t mind at least following along if it’s going to happen.)

dawn · January 13, 2026, 6:29pm

Hi @jamie – oops this is on me, I need to put it in our calendar. I think we may start first week of February due to my late timing

Kickoff event: CoSocial Reading Group: Intros for Lucy Suchman and plan · Luma

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