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List of Figures - List of Tables - Acknowledgements - PART 1
INTRODUCTION - Introduction: How to Study the Force of Science;
M.Callon, J.Law and A.Rip - PART 2 THE POWER OF TEXTS IN SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY - The Sociology of an Actor-Network: The Case of the
Electric Vehicle; M.Callon - Laboratories and Texts; J.Law -
Writing Science: Fact and Fiction: The Analysis of the Process of
Reality Construction through the Application of Socio-Semiotic
Methods to Scientific Texts; B.Latour and F.Bastide - The
Heterogeneity of Texts; J.Law - Mobilising Resources through Texts;
A.Rip - PART 3 MAPPING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - Qualitative
Scientometrics; M.Callon, A.Rip and J.Law - Aquaculture: A Field by
Bureaucratic Fiat; S.Bauin - State Intervention in Academic and
Industrial Research: The Case of Macromolecular Chemistry in
France; W.Turner and M.Callon - Pinpointing Industrial Invention:
An Exploration of Quantitative Methods for the Analysis of Patents;
M.Callon - Technical Issues and Developments in Methodology;
J-P.Courtial - Future Developments; M.Callon, J-P.Courtial and
W.Turner - PART 4 CONCLUSIONS - Putting Texts in their Place;
M.Callon, J.Law and A.Rip - Glossary - Bibliography - Index
List of Figures - List of Tables - Acknowledgements - PART 1
INTRODUCTION - Introduction: How to Study the Force of Science;
M.Callon, J.Law and A.Rip - PART 2 THE POWER OF TEXTS IN SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY - The Sociology of an Actor-Network: The Case of the
Electric Vehicle; M.Callon - Laboratories and Texts; J.Law -
Writing Science: Fact and Fiction: The Analysis of the Process of
Reality Construction through the Application of Socio-Semiotic
Methods to Scientific Texts; B.Latour and F.Bastide - The
Heterogeneity of Texts; J.Law - Mobilising Resources through Texts;
A.Rip - PART 3 MAPPING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - Qualitative
Scientometrics; M.Callon, A.Rip and J.Law - Aquaculture: A Field by
Bureaucratic Fiat; S.Bauin - State Intervention in Academic and
Industrial Research: The Case of Macromolecular Chemistry in
France; W.Turner and M.Callon - Pinpointing Industrial Invention:
An Exploration of Quantitative Methods for the Analysis of Patents;
M.Callon - Technical Issues and Developments in Methodology;
J-P.Courtial - Future Developments; M.Callon, J-P.Courtial and
W.Turner - PART 4 CONCLUSIONS - Putting Texts in their Place;
M.Callon, J.Law and A.Rip - Glossary - Bibliography - Index
A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic
coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience. The
technologies, markets, and administrations of today's knowledge
society are in crisis. We face recurring disasters in every domain:
climate change, energy shortages, economic meltdown. The system is
broken, despite everything the technocrats claim to know about
science, technology, and economics. These problems are exacerbated
by the fact that today powerful technologies have unforeseen
effects that disrupt everyday life; the new masters of technology
are not restrained by the lessons of experience, and accelerate
change to the point where society is in constant turmoil. In
Between Reason and Experience, leading philosopher of technology
Andrew Feenberg makes a case for the interdependence of
reason-scientific knowledge, technical rationality-and experience.
Feenberg examines different aspects of the tangled relationship
between technology and society from the perspective of critical
theory of technology, an approach he has pioneered over the past
twenty years. Feenberg points to two examples of democratic
interventions into technology: the Internet (in which user
initiative has influenced design) and the environmental movement
(in which science coordinates with protest and policy). He examines
methodological applications of critical theory of technology to the
case of the French Minitel computing network and to the
relationship between national culture and technology in Japan.
Finally, Feenberg considers the philosophies of technology of
Heidegger, Habermas, Latour, and Marcuse. The gradual extension of
democracy into the technical sphere, Feenberg argues, is one of the
great political transformations of our time.
A call for a new form of democracy in which "hybrid forums"
composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical
controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms,
and nanotechnology. Controversies over such issues as nuclear
waste, genetically modified organisms, asbestos, tobacco, gene
therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towers arise almost daily as
rapid scientific and technological advances create uncertainty and
bring about unforeseen concerns. The authors of Acting in an
Uncertain World argue that political institutions must be expanded
and improved to manage these controversies, to transform them into
productive conversations, and to bring about "technical democracy."
They show how "hybrid forums"-in which experts, non-experts,
ordinary citizens, and politicians come together-reveal the limits
of traditional delegative democracies, in which decisions are made
by quasi-professional politicians and techno-scientific information
is the domain of specialists in laboratories. The division between
professionals and laypeople, the authors claim, is simply outmoded.
The authors argue that laboratory research should be complemented
by everyday experimentation pursued in the real world, and they
describe various modes of cooperation between the two. They explore
a range of concrete examples of hybrid forums that have dealt with
sociotechnical controversies including nuclear waste disposal in
France, industrial waste and birth defects in Japan, a childhood
leukemia cluster in Woburn, Massachusetts, and mad cow disease in
the United Kingdom. The authors discuss the implications for
political decision making in general and describe a "dialogic"
democracy that enriches traditional representative democracy. To
invent new procedures for consultation and representation, they
suggest, is to contribute to an endless process that is necessary
for the ongoing democratization of democracy.
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