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Nanoculture - Implications of the New Technoscience (Paperback)
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Nanoculture - Implications of the New Technoscience (Paperback)
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"Nano" denotes a billionth; a nanometer is a billionth of a meter.
New instrumentation and techniques have for the first time made
possible materials research and engineering at this level, the
scale of individual molecules and atoms.
Extraordinary visions of material abundance, unprecedented
materials, and powerful engineering capabilities have marked the
arrival of nanotechnology, as well as dystopian scenarios of
self-replicating devices running amok and causing global
catastrophe. Largely a future possibility rather than present
actuality, nanotechnology has become a potent cultural signifier.
"NanoCulture" explores the ways in which nanotechnology interacts
with, and itself becomes, a cultural construction. Topics include
the co-construction of nanoscience and science fiction; the
influence of risk assessment and nanotechnology on the shapes of
narratives; intersections between nanoscience as a writing practice
and experimental literature at the limits of fabrication; the
Alice-in-Wonderland metaphor for nanotechnology; and the effects of
mediation on nanotechnology and electronic literature.
"NanoCulture" is produced in collaboration with the "nano" art
exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (December
2003-September 2004), created by an interdisciplinary team led by
media artist Victoria Vesna and nanoscientist James Gimzewski.
"NanoCulture" is richly illustrated with images from the "nano"
exhibit, which also provides the basis for an ethnographic analysis
of collaborative process and an exploration of changing concepts of
museum space.
The dynamic uniting these diverse perspectives is boundary
crossing: between art, science, and literature;
culturalimaginaries, scientific facts, and technological
possibilities; actual. virtual, and hybrid spaces; the science of
fictions and the fictions of science; and utopian dreams, material
constraints, and dystopian nightmares.
The first book-length study focus on cultural implications of
nanotechnology, "NanoCulture" breaks new ground in showing the
importance of the new technoscience to contemporary culture and of
culture to the development, interpretation, and future of this
technoscience.
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