03041oam 2200541I 450 991096155950332120251117090148.01-78144-839-61-351-96637-51-351-96638-310.4324/9781781448397 (CKB)3710000001086514(MiAaPQ)EBC4813423(OCoLC)974040742(BIP)50946560(EXLCZ)99371000000108651420180706d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierResearch objects in their technological setting /edited by Bernadette Bensaude Vincent. [et al.]1st ed.London ;New York, N.Y. :Routledge,2017.1 online resource (283 pages) illustrationsHistory and Philosophy of Technoscience ;100-367-18079-0 1-84893-584-6 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.pt. I. Horizon of possibilities -- pt. II. Arenas of contestation -- pt. III. Multiple temporalities.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.History and philosophy of technoscience ;10.TechnologyPhilosophySciencePhilosophyResearchPhilosophyTechnologyPhilosophy.SciencePhilosophy.ResearchPhilosophy.601Bensaude-Vincent Bernadette67827MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961559503321Research objects in their technological setting4472746UNINA