Heidelberg: AKA GmbH 2011
ISBN 978-3-89838-659-3, 257 S., softcover, 60,00 Euro
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Preface
Titelinformation des Verlags:
Today, nanoscience and emerging technologies weave ever more tightly
into the social fabric. Scientific and technological innovations at
the infinitesimal depths of matter now entail cultural, political,
and philosophical ramifications of extraordinary scope, extending
from the molecular scale to the global scale, from the physical
entanglements of subatomic particles to the fiscal entanglements of
transnational markets. The need to engage these technical
developments and their social aspects with fine-grained precision
becomes increasingly evident.
This volume addresses the question of engagement by working from the
bottom up: grappling with the particular, discrete operations of
nanoscience and related fields in order to assess how these
operations shape, and are shaped by, practices of participatory
culture and civil society. It opens outward from minimal and local
interactions with the molecular sciences - attending to the
necessity of quantum engagements - and expands across the dimensions
of history, public discourse, ecology, and political economy.
Refracting the social complexities of our high-tech world, the
essays in this collection participate in the project of articulating
new modes of technoscientific governance.
Bringing together contributions and perspectives from experts in the
social sciences, the humanities, and the natural sciences, Quantum
Engagements showcases ongoing research activities of the vibrant,
multidisciplinary community of S.NET, the Society for the Study of
Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies.