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What kind of stuff is the world made of? What is the nature or substance of things? These are ontological questions, and they are usually answered with respect to the objects of science. The objects of technoscience tell a different story that concerns the power, promise and potential of things - not what they are but what they can be. Seventeen scholars from history and philosophy of science, epistemology, social anthropology, cultural studies and ethics each explore a research object in its technological setting, ranging from carbon to cardboard, from arctic ice cores to nuclear waste, from wetlands to GMO seeds, from fuel cells to the great Pacific garbage patch. Together they offer fascinating stories and novel analytic concepts, all the while opening up a space for reflecting on the specific character of technoscientific objects. With their promise of sustainable innovation and a technologically transformed future, these objects are highly charged with values and design expectations. By clarifying their mode of existence, we are learning to come to terms more generally with the furniture of the technoscientific world - where, for example, the 'dead matter' of classical physics is becoming the 'smart material' of emerging and converging technologies.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Genesis and Ontology of Technoscientific Objects
PART I
Horizon of Possibilities
1 The Pyramid and the Ring: A Physics Indifferent to Ontology
Peter Galison
2 Cancer Stem Cells: Ontology Matters
Lucie Laplane
3 Robots Behaving Badly: Simulation and Participation in the Study of Life
Christopher Kelty
4 Vanishing Friction Events and the Inverted Platonism of Technoscience
Alfred Nordmann
5 From the Birth of Fuel Cells to the Utopia of the Hydrogen World
Pierre Teissier
PART II
Arenas of Contestation
6 Heroin: Taming a Drug and Losing Control
Jens Soentgen
7 Long Live Play: The Playstation Network and Technogenic Life
Colin Milburn
8 A Biography of a Disorder that Didn't Want to be Diagnosed
Simone van den Burg
9 The Plasticity and Recalcitrance of Wetlands
Kevin C. Elliott
10 The Life and Times of Transgenics
Hugh Lacey
11 Cardboard: Thinking the Box
Cheryce von Xylander
PART III
Multiple Temporalities
12 The Multiple Signatures of Carbon
Sacha Loeve and Bernadette Bensaude Vincent
13 Monitoring and Remediating a Garbage Patch
Jennifer Gabrys
14 Polar Ice Cores: Climate Change Messengers
Aant Elzinga
15 Nuclear Waste: An Untreatable Technoscientific Product
Sophie Poirot-Delpech
16 Biography of a 'Sand Heap': Staging the Beginnings of Nature
Astrid Schwarz
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