The Politics of Knowledge.

In the age of biotechnology, new communication technologies and information economies, the traditional boundaries and categories of the political are being rapidly redefined. Modern political categories like the 'nation-state' seem to be increasingly ill-suited to understand the flows of capital, information and knowledge which operate across political borders. This volume explores how the production of knowledge affects political activities and vice versa. The contributors explore how the development of new communication and information technologies gives rise to new types of informal political associations which call into question the traditional identification of the political with the formal structures of the state apparatus. Likewise, this volume explores how the rapid development of new scientific knowledge offers possibilities, risks and uncertainties, which have to be politically governed and managed.This book will be of interest to students of sociology, political science, cultural studies and science and technology studies.