Strange Weather: Culture, Science and Technology in the Age of Limits - Couverture souple

Ross, Andrew

 
9780860915676: Strange Weather: Culture, Science and Technology in the Age of Limits
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0860915670 ISBN 13 : 9780860915676
Editeur : Verso Books, 1991

Synopsis

Who speaks for science in a technologically dominated society? In his latest work of cultural criticism Andrew Ross contends that this question yields no simple or easy answer. In our present technoculture a wide variety of people, both inside and outside the scientific community, have become increasingly vocal in exercising their right to speak about, on behalf of, and often against, science and technology.

Arguing that science can only ever be understood as a social artifact, Strange Weather is a manifesto which calls on cultural critics to abandon their technophobia and contribute to the debates which shape our future. Each chapter focuses on an idea, a practice or community that has established an influential presence in our culture: New Age, computer hacking, cyberpunk, futurology, and global warming.

In a book brimming over with intelligence--both human and electronic--Ross examines the state of scientific countercultures in an age when the development of advanced information technologies coexists uneasily with ecological warnings about the perils of unchecked growth. Intended as a contribution to a "green" cultural criticism, Strange Weather is a provocative investigation of the ways in which science is shaping the popular imagination of today, and delimiting the possibilities of tomorrow.

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À propos de l?auteur

Andrew Ross is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in American Studies at New York University. His books include No Respect, Strange Weather, The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life; the editor of Universal Abandon?; and the co-editor of Microphone Fiends.

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Éditeur
Verso Books
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0860915670
ISBN 13 
9780860915676
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780860913542: Strange Weather: Culture, Science, and Technology in the Age of Limits

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ISBN 10 :  0860913546 ISBN 13 :  9780860913542
Editeur : Verso Books, 1991
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