Chasing Technoscience : Matrix for Materiality

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