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Cultural Collisions - Postmodern Technoscience (Paperback)
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Cultural Collisions - Postmodern Technoscience (Paperback)
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Combining postmodernism with technoscience, this work considers the
viability of public works such as the superconducting supercollider
in a postmodern age. Contending that technoscientific projects are
contingent upon economic and political support, and not simply upon
their scientific feasibility, Sassower illuminates the cultural
context of postmodernism vis-a-vis an examination of postmodernism
and the philosophy of late 20th-century technoscience. Drawing upon
conflicts between Popperians, postmodernists and feminists,
Sassower claims that "translation" between competing discourses
about technoscience is necessary to avoid cultural collisions and
foster fruitful exchange between divergent discourses; also that a
discussion of reality, both natural and social, is the common
ground for this debate. He emphasizes also the material, political
and economic conditions which underlie technoscientific projects,
and stresses the indespensible role imagination and art play in
teaching the responsible development of technology in the next
century.
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