Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience - Couverture souple

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Law, John

 
9780822328247: Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0822328240 ISBN 13 : 9780822328247
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2002

Synopsis

In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells "stories" about a British attempt to build a military aircraft-the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways in which particular technological projects can be understood in a world of complex contexts.
Law works to upset the binary between the modernist concept of knowledge, subjects, and objects as having centered and concrete essences and the postmodernist notion that all is fragmented and centerless. The structure and content of Aircraft Stories reflect Law's contention that knowledge, subjects, and-particularly- objects are "fractionally coherent" that is, they are drawn together without necessarily being centered. In studying the process of this particular aircraft's design, construction, and eventual cancellation, Law develops a range of metaphors to describe both its fractional character and the ways its various aspects interact with each other. Offering numerous insights into the way we theorize the working of systems, he explores the overlaps between singularity and multiplicity and reveals rich new meaning in such concepts as oscillation, interference, fractionality, and rhizomatic networks.
The methodology and insights of Aircraft Stories will be invaluable to students in science and technology studies and will engage others who are interested in the ways that contemporary paradigms have limited our ability to see objects in their true complexity.

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À propos de l?auteur

John Law is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster University in England. He is the author and editor of many books and articles, including Organizing Modernity and Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822328240
ISBN 13 
9780822328247
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780822328124: Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience

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ISBN 10 :  0822328127 ISBN 13 :  9780822328124
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2002
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