Fashion, mediation & method assemblages

This paper discusses relations between aesthetics of fashion and the sociality of fashion. It takes as its premise that aesthetics and sociality are co-constructed, and cannot be regarded as separate - although this has been the norm in the academic traditions of aesthetics and sociology, respectively. The paper thus takes on aesthetics and the social in a manner closely related to a core argument of STS - namely that the scientific fact, and the social processes of constructing, istributing, and using that fact, are co-constructed (Callon, 1986; Latour, 1993). The paper hus contributes to STS literature by expanding one of its central debates to a new impirical setting; fashion specifically, and the aesthetic-cultural field on a
more general level.