Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality (Philosophy of Technology)

"... an original, quirky, and illuminating collection of material concerning the relatively new and exciting field of technoscience studies.... [T]he editors’ choice of multiple approaches to the work of four major figures is wholly suited to clarifying their unorthodox and consequently somewhat elusive philosophical positions." ―Robert Scharff
Although often absent from the considerations of philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists, the material dimension plays an important and even essential role in the practices of the sciences. Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality begins to redress this absence by bringing together four prominent figures who make technoscience, or science embodied in its technologies, a central theme of their work. Through lively personal interviews and substantive essays, the ideas of Andrew Pickering, Don Ihde, Donna Haraway, and Bruno Latour are brought to bear on the question of materiality in technoscience. The work of these theorists is then compared and critiqued in essays by colleagues. Chasing Technoscience is a ground-breaking, state-of-the-art look at current developments in technoscience.

Politics & Social Sciences

Ihde, Don

Selinger, Evan

Bruno Latour

Donna Haraway

Andrew Pickering

Philosophy

Indiana University Press

Science in Action

Science & Math

History & Philosophy

Open University Press

Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers, sociologists and historians of science. In this book Bruno Latour brings together these different approaches to provide a lively and challenging analysis of science, demonstrating how social context and technical content are both essential to a proper understanding of scientific activity. Emphasizing that science can only be understood through its practice, the author examines science and technology in action: the role of scientific literature, the activities of laboratories, the institutional context of science in the modern world, and the means by which inventions and discoveries become accepted. From the study of scientific practice he develops an analysis of science as the building of networks. Throughout, Bruno Latour shows how a lively and realistic picture of science in action alters our conception of not only the natural sciences but also the social sciences and the sociology of knowledge in general.This stimulating book, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide range of scientific activities, will interest all philosophers, sociologists and historians of science, scientists and engineers, and students of the philosophy of social science and the sociology of knowledge.

Science in Action : How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society

Technology

Harvard University Press

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science.

Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts, 2nd Edition

Steve Woolgar

Social Sciences

Princeton University Press

We Have Never Been Modern

PRENTICE/HALL

Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime

Polity

Log 58

Thomas Daniell

Harish Krishnamoorthy

Mario Carpo

Lisa Hsieh

Emmett Zeifman

Donald Bates

Courtney Coffman

Arata Isozaki

Phillip Denny

Ian Erickson

Craig Hodgetts

Shiila Infriccioli

Norihisa Kawashima

Christian Nakarado

Waiko Waida

Anyone Corporation

Kampf um Gaia

Latour,Krieg der Welten

MERVE VERLAG

Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy

Politics & Government

Orient Black Swan

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