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Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life
Bruce Braun (Ed.)
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Description for Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life
Paperback. Editor(s): Braun, Bruce; Whatmore, Sarah J. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
Taking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political Matter seeks to develop a fully materialist theory of politics, one that opens new possibilities for imagining the relationship between scientific and political practices. The contributors assert that without such a theory the profusion of complex materials with and through which we live-plastic bags, smart cars, and long-life lightbulbs, for example-too often leaves us oscillating between fearful repudiation and glib celebration.
Exploring the frictions that come from linking the work of scholars in science and technology studies and political theory, these essays spark new ways of understanding the matter of politics.
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Taking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political Matter seeks to develop a fully materialist theory of politics, one that opens new possibilities for imagining the relationship between scientific and political practices. The contributors assert that without such a theory the profusion of complex materials with and through which we live-plastic bags, smart cars, and long-life lightbulbs, for example-too often leaves us oscillating between fearful repudiation and glib celebration.
Exploring the frictions that come from linking the work of scholars in science and technology studies and political theory, these essays spark new ways of understanding the matter of politics.
... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816670895
SKU
V9780816670895
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About Bruce Braun (Ed.)
Bruce Braun is associate professor of geography at the University of Minnesota. Sarah Whatmore is professor of environment and public policy at the University of Oxford.
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