1st Edition

Cultural Collisions Postmodern Technoscience

By Raphael Sassower Copyright 1995

    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.

    Chapter 1 T HE S UPERCONDUCTING S UPERCOLLIDER; Chapter 2 P OSTMODERNISM AND T ECHNOSCIENCE; Chapter 3 T RANSLATION AS A P OLITICAL A GENDA; Chapter 4 P OSTMODERN T ECHNOSCIENCE: A C RITICAL E NGAGEMENT; Chapter 5 A F EMINIST E NGAGEMENT: P OPPER & H ARAWAY; Chapter 6 T HE M ATERIAL C ONDITIONS OF P OSTMODERN T ECHNOSCIENCE; Chapter 7 A RT AND I MAGINATION: I NTELLECTUAL R ESPONSIBILITY R EFERENCES I NDEX;

    Biography

    Raphael Sassower is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is the author of Knowledge Without Expertise, Narrative Experiments, and co-editor of Prescriptions.