INQUIRY INTO SPATIALITIES*

University for the chance to explore the arguments developed in this paper. 1 Down to Earth In the past one of the more remarkable characteristics attributed to scientific facts was their universality. Once established in a single place, their validity was supposed to transport itself everywhere, free of cost and without effort. But no. It is already far too place-oriented to put it like this. The faith in the universality of well established facts depended on never asking where-questions at all. The universal was, well, universal. Which meant that universalism didn’t figure as a consequence of an attempt to add up, make links between, or otherwise relate various localities, but rather as something which transcended them. Over the last decades something has changed in our understanding of the sciences. To summarise: facts have been localised. Some context. The social studies of science are usually presented as a turn against the normativities of epistemology. While epistemologists were busy arguing about ho