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Unreal Objects: Digital Materialities, Technoscientific Projects and Political Realities
Kate O'Riordan
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Description for Unreal Objects: Digital Materialities, Technoscientific Projects and Political Realities
Paperback. Unpacks the political economy of new science and technology projects, and the implications for a utopian future Series: Digital Barricades: Interventions in Digital Culture and Politics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135. .
Science and technology are playing increasingly important roles in our lives. New projects in development today will fundamentally shape the world around us, and manipulate our lived experience. But how and why are such important scientific and technological projects chosen, and what are the consequences of this process? In this book, Kate O'Riordan answers these crucial question. She discovers that many objects, such as genomes and genomic projects, smart grids, de-extinction projects and biosensors cannot be granted scientific legitimacy and developed without extraordinary amounts of media, public relations, celebrity endorsements and private investment. As ... Read more
Science and technology are playing increasingly important roles in our lives. New projects in development today will fundamentally shape the world around us, and manipulate our lived experience. But how and why are such important scientific and technological projects chosen, and what are the consequences of this process? In this book, Kate O'Riordan answers these crucial question. She discovers that many objects, such as genomes and genomic projects, smart grids, de-extinction projects and biosensors cannot be granted scientific legitimacy and developed without extraordinary amounts of media, public relations, celebrity endorsements and private investment. As ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Digital Barricades: Interventions in Digital Culture and Politics
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745336749
SKU
V9780745336749
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About Kate O'Riordan
Kate O'Riordan is Reader in Digital Media at the University of Sussex. Her research interests relate to cultural studies of emerging technologies, from the web in the 1990s to genome editing in 2014. She has authored and edited a number of books including Unreal Objects (Pluto, 2017) and The Genome Incorporated: Constructing Biodigital Identity (Routledge, 2016).
Reviews for Unreal Objects: Digital Materialities, Technoscientific Projects and Political Realities
'Disorientates us, showing us how the reality of things is contingent and contestable, never losing sight of what is at stake'
Sarah Kember, Professor of New Technologies of Communication, Goldsmiths University, Director of Goldsmiths Press
Sarah Kember, Professor of New Technologies of Communication, Goldsmiths University, Director of Goldsmiths Press