Michelle Murphy in her keynote address at the 2016 4S/EASTS meeting, “What a Body can’t do?” called for STS to attend to alterlife—”a politics of entanglement, kinship, and responsibility” that explicates the material enmeshment of the human body with chemical exposures and environmental violence (7). She claims that bodies are already “more-than-bodies” and “they stretch outward to water, air, ancestors and other beings, that stretches backward to messy histories and forward to something else” (11). Today, we find ourselves in tense entanglements of exclusionist relationalities that reify the boundaries which frame the modern subject and their embodiment. Power structures including religion, racism, law, science, technology contribute to the production of otherness within a technoscientific apparatus like nuclear energy, AI, Big Data etc. (Ali). While STS has extensively focused on inclusion and exclusion of beings in technoscientific enactments, the philosophical, sociological, historical and anthropological treatment of the meanings of “alterity” or otherness that emerge under technoscientific duress remain unaddressed. Calling for an STS of alterity, this panel asks,
1)	how and what constitutions of otherness, say human/non-human, is produced in technoscientific enactments?
2)	how the boundaries and relations between self and other are made, unmade and reified through technoscientific enactments?
3)	are these (alter-ed) relations racial, colonial, imperial, postcolonial, gendered?
This panel aims to bring together a large array of research on technoscientific practices and how they produce “otherness.” Papers that explicate the production of otherness in the context of environmental justice and contamination, especially radiation contamination, are particularly welcome. Papers may also interpret STS theories including Actor Network Theory (as called for the by Law), New Materialisms, (Crip) Feminist and anti-racist Technoscience using the frames of “othering” and “alterity.” 
Bibliography
Ali, Misria S. 2020. “Memorializing Decommissioning: A Nuclear Culture Approach to Safety Culture.” RSA Journal 31 (2020): 33-58.
Law, John. 2002. “Objects and Spaces.” Theory, Culture & Society 19 (5-6): 91–105. doi:10.1177/026327602761899165.
Murphy, Michelle. 2017 “What Can’t a Body Do,” Catalyst 3 (1): 1-15. https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/28791/pdf_5