Octavio Mucino Hernandez
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Mail code: 6002Campus: Tempe
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Student Information
Graduate StudentHuman and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology
College of Global Futures
Octavio Muciño Hernández is a Ph.D. candidate and Graduate Research Associate in the Social and Human Dimensions of Science and Technology program at Arizona State University. He obtained a Master's degree in Political Science from the University of Osnabrück, Germany, through the DAAD Helmut-Schmidt program. He also holds a Licentiate degree in Sociology from the University of Guadalajara. Octavio's research interests revolve around the sociopolitical study and normative performance of bioethics and animal ethics, and how Nation-States identify monsters or monstrous entities. He applies STS (Science and Technology Studies) perspectives to investigate migratory and forensic conditions in the Mexican Borderlands.
Apart from research, Octavio is also involved in art science, where he contributes as a bass player and sound designer.
-Food must nourish the collective mind before it can enter an empty stomach (orig. in Spanish). In:
Trayectos y Vínculos de la Investigación Dialógica y Transdisciplinaria. Ed. Susan Street. UNAM 2015
-Max Weber: the caged Faust (orig. in Spanish). In: Repensar a los teóricos de la sociedad II. Eds.
Jorge Ramírez, Rafael Vizcarra. Guadalajara University, 2015
-Desirable lives. Cartographies, desires and values in young people (orig. in Spanish).
Comunicación y Sociedad. Guadalajara University , 2011 (16) [Book review]
-Max Weber and the Concept of Human Nature (orig. in Spanish). Universidad de Guadalajara
2014. [Accepted for publication]
-Sentience & the State. MA Thesis. Osnabrück University
- La muerte de la política. [The Death of Politics] Karl Hess. Ed. Innisfree. Spain, 2013. Trad.
Octavio Muciño
- El puño de hierro detrás de la mano invisible. [The Iron Fist behind the Invisible Hand] Kevin
Carson. Ed. Innisfree, Spain 2014. Trad. Octavio Muciño
Perceptions on Healthy and Natural Diet: a study on beverages and the social construction of
what is perceived as natural among high school students in Zapopan, Mexico. XXII ENES,
Puebla. 08 March, 2016
Public Ethics. General Session. Education and Research Division.
Western Medical Center. February 25, 2015
The Justice Principle. General Session. Education and Research Division.
Western Medical Center. April 16, 2014
The Anthropic Cage: human being as routinization. 9th Beyond Humanism Conference. John
Cabbot University. Rome, 2017
Courses
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| FIS 494 | Special Topics |
| HSD 598 | Special Topics |
| GTD 598 | Special Topics |
| GTD 598 | Special Topics |