Chasing Technoscience

"... an original, quirky, and illuminating collection of material concerning the relatively new and exciting field of technoscience studies.... [T]he editors' choice of multiple approaches to the work of four major figures is wholly suited to clarifying their unorthodox and consequently somewhat elusive philosophical positions." -- Robert ScharffAlthough often absent from the considerations of philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists, the material dimension plays an important and even essential role in the practices of the sciences. Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality begins to redress this absence by bringing together four prominent figures who make technoscience, or science embodied in its technologies, a central theme of their work. Through lively personal interviews and substantive essays, the ideas of Andrew Pickering, Don Ihde, Donna Haraway, and Bruno Latour are brought to bear on the question of materiality in technoscience. The work of these theorists is then compared and critiqued in essays by colleagues. Chasing Technoscience is a ground-breaking, state-of-the-art look at current developments in technoscience.

Don Ihde is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is Director of the Technoscience Research Group at Stony Brook and is affiliated with the History of Science and Women's Studies programs. He is the author of thirteen other books, including Instrumental Realism and Technology and the Lifeworld (both Indiana University Press).

Evan Selinger is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he is writing his dissertation on the topic of expertise and authority. His publications include "Dreyfus on Expertise: The Limits of Phenomenological Analysis," which appeared in Continental Philosophy Review.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

(14)

PART ONE

Don Ihde

PART TWO

Evan Selinger

PART ONE

Interview with Bruno Latour

15

(12)

Robert Crease

Don Ihde

Casper Bruun Jensen

Evan Selinger

The Promises of Constructivism

27

(20)

Bruno Latour

Interview with Donna Haraway

47

(11)

Randi Markussen

Finn Olesen

Nina Lykke

Cyborgs to Companion Species: Reconfiguring Kinship in Technoscience

58

(25)

Donna Haraway

Interview with Andrew Pickering

83

(13)

Casper Bruun Jensen

On Becoming: Imagination, Metaphysics, and the Mangle

96

(21)

Andrew Pickering

Interview with Don Ihde

117

(14)

Robb Eason

Jeremy Hubbell

Jari Friis Jergenssen

Srikanth Mallavarapu

Nikos Plevris

Evan Selinger

If Phenomenology Is an Albatross, Is Post-phenomenology Possible?

131

(16)

Don Ihde

PART TWO

Interdisciplinary Provocateurs: Philosophically Assessing Haraway and Pickering

147

(20)

Evan Selinger

Hypertext: Rortean Links between Ihde and Haraway

167

(15)

Robb Eason

Do You Believe in Ethics? Latour and Ihde in the Trenches of the Science Wars (Or: Watch Out, Latour, Ihde's Got a Gun)

182

(13)

Aaron Smith

Distance and Alignment: Haraway's and Latour's Nietzschean Legacies

195

(18)

Casper Bruun Jensen

Evan Selinger

A Garden Meeting: Ihde and Pickering

213

(12)

Jari Friis Jorgenssen

Latour and Pickering: Post-human Perspectives on Science, Becoming, and Normativity

225

(16)

Casper Bruun Jensen

Contributors

241

(4)

Index

245

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Chasing Technoscience

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