Cultural collisions : postmodern technoscience / Raphael Sassower.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 1995Description: xiv, 156 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415911095
- 9780415911092
- 0415911109
- 9780415911108
- 303.483 20
- T14.5 .S27 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-151) and index.
Preface -- Ch. 1. The Superconducting Supercollider -- Ch. 2. Postmodernism and Technoscience -- Ch. 3. Translation as a Political Agenda -- Ch. 4. Postmodern Technoscience: A Critical Engagement -- Ch. 5. A Feminist Engagement: Popper & Haraway -- Ch. 6. The Material Conditions of Postmodern Technoscience -- Ch. 7. Art and Imagination: Intellectual Responsibility -- References -- Index.
"In Cultural Collisions Raphael Sassower brings postmodernism face to face with technoscience and 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 postmodern technoscience vis-a-vis an examination of postmodernism and the philosophy of late 20th century science. Drawing upon conflicts among Popperians and postmodernists, Popperians and feminists, Sassower claims that "translation" between competing discourses are necessary to avoid cultural collisions and foster fruitful exchange between divergent discourse. Sassower claims that an inevitable common ground exists in the form of a natural and social reality and referentiality. He emphasizes also the material, political economic conditions which underlie technoscientific projects, and; stresses the indispensable role imagination and art play in the teaching the responsible development of technology in the next century."--Publisher description.
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