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Research Objects in their Technological Setting: (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.



Table of Contents:

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction: The Genesis and Ontology of Technoscientific Objects

PART I

Horizon of Possibilities

1 The Pyramid and the Ring: A Physics Indifferent to Ontology

Peter Galison

2 Cancer Stem Cells: Ontology Matters

Lucie Laplane

3 Robots Behaving Badly: Simulation and Participation in the Study of Life

Christopher Kelty

4 Vanishing Friction Events and the Inverted Platonism of Technoscience

Alfred Nordmann

5 From the Birth of Fuel Cells to the Utopia of the Hydrogen World

Pierre Teissier

PART II

Arenas of Contestation

6 Heroin: Taming a Drug and Losing Control

Jens Soentgen

7 Long Live Play: The Playstation Network and Technogenic Life

Colin Milburn

8 A Biography of a Disorder that Didn’t Want to be Diagnosed

Simone van den Burg

9 The Plasticity and Recalcitrance of Wetlands

Kevin C. Elliott

10 The Life and Times of Transgenics

Hugh Lacey

11 Cardboard: Thinking the Box

Cheryce von Xylander

PART III

Multiple Temporalities

12 The Multiple Signatures of Carbon

Sacha Loeve and Bernadette Bensaude Vincent

13 Monitoring and Remediating a Garbage Patch

Jennifer Gabrys

14 Polar Ice Cores: Climate Change Messengers

Aant Elzinga

15 Nuclear Waste: An Untreatable Technoscientific Product

Sophie Poirot-Delpech

16 Biography of a ‘Sand Heap’: Staging the Beginnings of Nature

Astrid Schwarz

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  • ISBN-13: 9781351966382
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1351966383
  • Publisher Date: 24 Feb 2017
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Series Title: History and Philosophy of Technoscience

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