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Research Objects in their Technological Setting (Paperback)
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Research Objects in their Technological Setting (Paperback)
Series: History and Philosophy of Technoscience
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What kind of stuff is the world made of? What is the nature or
substance of things? These are ontological questions, and they are
usually answered with respect to the objects of science. The
objects of technoscience tell a different story that concerns the
power, promise and potential of things - not what they are but what
they can be. Seventeen scholars from history and philosophy of
science, epistemology, social anthropology, cultural studies and
ethics each explore a research object in its technological setting,
ranging from carbon to cardboard, from arctic ice cores to nuclear
waste, from wetlands to GMO seeds, from fuel cells to the great
Pacific garbage patch. Together they offer fascinating stories and
novel analytic concepts, all the while opening up a space for
reflecting on the specific character of technoscientific objects.
With their promise of sustainable innovation and a technologically
transformed future, these objects are highly charged with values
and design expectations. By clarifying their mode of existence, we
are learning to come to terms more generally with the furniture of
the technoscientific world - where, for example, the 'dead matter'
of classical physics is becoming the 'smart material' of emerging
and converging technologies.
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