Technonatures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Technonatures write by Damian F. White. This book was released on 2010-04-05. Technonatures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Environmentalism and social sciences appear to be in a period of disorientation and perhaps transition. In this innovative collection, leading international thinkers explore the notion that one explanation for the current malaise of the “politics of ecology” is that we increasingly find ourselves negotiating “technonatural” space/times. International contributors map the political ecologies of our technonatural present and indicate possible paths for technonatural futures. The term “technonatures” is in debt to a long line of environmental cultural theory from Raymond Williams onwards, problematizing the idea that a politics of the environment can be usefully grounded in terms of the rhetoric of defending the pure, the authentic, or an idealized past solely in terms of the ecological or the natural. In using the term “technonatures” as an organizing myth and metaphor for thinking about the politics of nature in contemporary times, this collection seeks to explore one increasingly pronounced dimension of the social natures discussion. Technonatures highlights a growing range of voices considering the claim that we are not only inhabiting diverse social natures but that within such natures our knowledge of our worlds is ever more technologically mediated, produced, enacted, and contested.
Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750
Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750 write by Mikkel Thelle. This book was released on . Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society
Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society write by Gert Verschraegen. This book was released on 2017-04-07. Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Imagining, forecasting and predicting the future is an inextricable and increasingly important part of the present. States, organizations and individuals almost continuously have to make decisions about future actions, financial investments or technological innovation, without much knowledge of what will exactly happen in the future. Science and technology play a crucial role in this collective attempt to make sense of the future. Technological developments such as nanotechnology, robotics or solar energy largely shape how we dream and think about the future, while economic forecasts, gene tests or climate change projections help us to make images of what may possibly occur in the future. This book provides one of the first interdisciplinary assessments of how scientific and technological imaginations matter in the formation of human, ecological and societal futures. Rooted in different disciplines such as sociology, philosophy, and science and technology studies, it explores how various actors such as scientists, companies or states imagine the future to be and act upon that imagination. Bringing together case studies from different regions around the globe, including the electrification of German car infrastructure, or genetically modified crops in India, Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society shows how science and technology create novel forms of imagination, thereby opening horizons toward alternative futures. By developing central aspects of the current debate on how scientific imagination and future-making interact, this timely volume provides a fresh look at the complex interrelationships between science, technology and society. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students interested in Science and Technology Studies, History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Political Sciences, Future Studies and Literary Sciences.
Women, Science, and Technology
Women, Science, and Technology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Science, and Technology write by Mary Wyer. This book was released on 2013-09-11. Women, Science, and Technology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women, Science, and Technology is an ideal reader for courses in feminist science studies. This third edition fully updates its predecessor with a new introduction and twenty-eight new readings that explore social constructions mediated by technologies, expand the scope of feminist technoscience studies, and move beyond the nature/culture paradigm.
Technology and Human Becoming
Technology and Human Becoming - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Technology and Human Becoming write by Philip Hefner. This book was released on . Technology and Human Becoming available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From a leader in the field of religion and science come these reflections on the role of technology in human life and culture. Philip Hefner sees the human spirit at issue in our assessment of and attitude toward technology and the many technological creations that humans spawn. Technology, he argues, tells us much about ourselves-especially our innate drive toward exploration of possibilities-and poses questions about the final meaning of creating, of human cultural evolution, and even the being of God.
