Description
Book SynopsisAlthough often absent from the considerations of philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists, the material dimension plays an important role in the practices of the sciences. This work brings together four prominent figures who make technoscience, or science embodied in its technologies, a central theme of their work.
Trade Review"... 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
Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part One Don Ihde
Part Two Evan Selinger
Part One
1. Interview with Bruno Latour Robert Crease, Don Ihde, Casper Bruun Jensen, and Evan Selinger
2. The Promises of Contructivism Bruno Latour
3. Interview with Donna Haraway Nina Lykke, Randi Markussen, and Finn Olesen
4. Cyborgs to Companion Species: Reconfiguring Kinship in Technoscience Donna Haraway
5. Interview with Andrew Pickering Casper Bruun Jensen
6. On Becoming: Imagination, Metaphysics, and the Mangle Andrew Pickering
7. Interview with Don Ihde Robb Eason, Jeremy Hubbell, Jari Jørgensen, Srikanth Mallavarapu, Nikos Plevris, and Evan Selinger
8. If Phenomenology is an Albatross, is Post-phenomenology Possible? Don Ihde
Part Two
9. Interdisciplinary Provocateurs: Philosophically Assessing Haraway and Pickering Evan Selinger
10. Hypertext: Rortean Links between Ihde and Haraway Robb Eason
11. Do You Believe in Ethics? Latour and Ihde in the Trenches of the Science Wars (Or: Watch Out Latour, Ihde's Got a Gun) Aaron Smith
12. Distance and Alignment: Haraway and Latour's Nietzschian Legacies Casper Bruun Jensen and Evan Selinger
13. A Garden Meeting: Ihde and Latour Jari Friis Jørgensen
14. Latour and Pickering: Posthuman Perspectives on Science, Becoming, and Normativity Casper Bruun Jensen
Index
