Sociotechnical imaginaries (SIs) have emerged as a popular and generative concept within Science and Technology Studies (STS). This article draws out the affective component of SIs, combining a review of relevant literatures with an empirical case study of an anti-fracking imaginary in Ireland to suggest how we might theorize an affective technopolitics of SIs. The literature review identifies three key aspects of SIs that would benefit from a more coherent conceptualization of affect: the utopian, productive, and collectivizing dimensions of imaginaries. Emotions such as desire and fear appear prominently in the SI literature, but in ways that require development. Using empirical examples from my research, I outline what this developed understanding of emotions in imaginaries might look like. I examine the role that emotions played in the development and settlement of an anti-fracking imaginary in Ireland, highlighting how the intensive, multimodal, and dynamic nature of affect underpinned the productive, collective, and utopian dimensions of the SI. I conclude with some remarks about how this developed theory of emotion positions STS researchers to address issues of humanity, representation, and the building of better worlds.

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心灵和思想：情感在社会技术想象中的技术政治作用。


社会技术想象（SI）已成为科学技术研究（STS）中一个流行的生成概念。本文提出了 SI 的情感成分，结合相关文献的回顾和爱尔兰反水力压裂想象的实证案例研究，以建议我们如何对 SI 的情感技术政治进行理论化。文献综述确定了 SI 的三个关键方面，这些方面将受益于更连贯的情感概念化：想象的乌托邦、生产性和集体化维度。欲望和恐惧等情绪在 SI 文献中占据显着位置，但其方式需要发展。通过我的研究中的实证例子，我概述了对想象中情感的深入理解可能是什么样子。我研究了情感在爱尔兰反水力压裂想象的发展和解决中所扮演的角色，强调情感的密集性、多模式和动态性质如何支撑 SI 的生产性、集体性和乌托邦维度。最后，我对这种发展起来的情感理论如何帮助 STS 研究人员解决人性、代表性和建设更美好世界的问题进行了一些评论。