Cultural Collisions Postmodern Technoscience

includes index and biblioraphy

Chapter 1: The Superconducting Supercollider
Introduction
The Superconducting Supercollider
Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics
Small Is Beautiful
Postmodern Technoscience
Chapter 2: Postmodernism and Technoscience
Prologue
Background
Should There Be Postmodern Philosophy of Science?
From Science to Politics through Critique
Feminist and Postmodern Engagement
Liberal Intolerance and Radical Engagement
Chapter 3: Translation as a Political Agenda
Introduction
Politics of Translation
Indeterminacy of Translation
Language Games
The Politics of Games
Chapter 4: Postmodern Technoscience: A Critical Engagement
Introduction
Modernist Philosophy of Science and Romantic Postmodernism
Scientific Communication
Lyotard`s Postmodern Philosophy of Science
Toulmin`s Postmodern Philosophy of Science
Feminist Postmodern (Philosophy of) Science
The Politics of Postmodern Technoscience
Chapter 5: A Feminist Engagement: Popper & Haraway
Introduction
Politicizing Epistemology: An Odyssey
Transcending Situatedness
Situating Transcendence
Rationality as Situated Logic
The Politics of Knowledge: Strategic Alliances
Chapter 6: The Material Conditions of Postmodern Technoscience
Introduction
The Inevitability of Reality
The Ambiguity of Reality
PreSocratic Reality
Reality, Politics, and Ethics
Postmodern Political Economy
Coordinated Elasticity: The Virtual Corporation
Chapter 7: Art and Imagination: Intellectual Responsibility
Cultural Context
Conscience and Responsibility
Art and the Monitor
The Multiversity