1st Edition

Technoscience and Cyberculture

Edited By Stanley Aronowitz Copyright 1996

    Technoculture is culture--such is the proposition posited in Technoscience and Cyberculture, arguing that technology's permeation of the cultural landscape has so irrevocably reconstituted this terrain that technology emerges as the dominant discourse in politics, medicine and everyday life. The problems addressed in Technoscience and Cyberculture concern the ways in which technology and science relate to one another and organize, orient and effect the landscape and inhabitants of contemporary culture.

    Introduction Establishing Markers in the Milieu, Jennifer Rich, Michael Menser; Part I The Cultural Study of Science and Technology: A Manifesto; Chapter I On Cultural Studies, Science, and Technology, Michael Menser, Stanley Aronowitz; Part II From the Social Study of Science to Cultural Studies; Chapter II Perspectives onthe Evolution of Science Studies, Dorothy Nelkin; Chapter III When Eliza Doolittle Studies 'enry 'iggins, Sharon Traweek; Chapter IV Math Fictions, Zolkower Betina; Chapter V Citadels, Rhizomes, and String Figures, Emily Martin; Part III World, Weather, War; Chapter VI Earth to Gore, Earth to Gore, Andrew Ross; Chapter VII Mapping Space: Imaging Technologies and the Planetary Bodu, Jody Berland; Chapter VIII The Bomb's-Eye View: Smart Llleapons and Military T.V., John Broughton; Part IV Markets and the Future of Work; Chapter IX Virtual Capitalism, Arthur Kroker; Chapter X Markets and Antimarkets in the World Economy, Manuel De Lancia; Chapter XI Technoscience and the Labor Process, William DiFazio; partV Bioethics; Chapter XII Genetic Services, Social Context, and Public Priorities, Philip Boyle; Chapter XIII Genetics in Public Health: Implications of Genetic Screening and Counseling in Rural and Culturally Diverse Populations, Ralph W. Trottier; part VI Risky Reading, Writing, and Other Unsafe Practices; ChapterXIV Boundary Isolations, Peter Lamborn Wilson; Chapter XV The Possibility of Agency for Photographic Subjects, Barbara Martinsons; Chapter XVI Remarks on Narrative and Technology, or Poetry and Truth, Samuel R. Delany; part VII Visualizing and Producing Anarchic Spaces; Chapter XVII The Question of Space, Woods Lebbeus; Chapter XVIII Becoming-Heterarch: On Technocultural Theory, Minor Science, and the Production of Space, Michael Menser;

    Biography

    Stanley Aronowitz is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Barbara R. Martinsons is Associate Director at the CUNY Center for Cultural Studies. Michael Menser is Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy at Brooklyn College.