Technoscientific Imaginaries
Conversations, Profiles, and Memoirs
570 pages
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15 halftones
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6-1/2 x 9-1/4
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© 1994
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Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction by George E. Marcus
1: Cornucopions of History: A Memoir of Science and the Politics of Private Lives
Livia Polanyi
2: Eye(I)ing the Sciences and Their Signifiers (Language, Tropes, Autobiographers): InterViewing for a Cultural Studies of Science and Technology
Michael M. J. Fischer
3: Twenty-first-Century PET: Looking for Mind and Morality through the Eye of Technology
Joseph Dumit
4: Medicine on the Edge: Conversations with Oncologists
Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good, Irene Kuter, Simon Powell, Herbert C. Hoover, Jr., Maria E. Carson, Rita Linggood.
5: Reflections on Fieldwork in Alameda
Paul Rabinow
6: Innocence and Awakening: Cyberdammerung at the Ashibe Research Laboratory
Allucquere Rosanne Stone
7: The World of Industry-University-Government: Reimagining R&D as America 197
Gary Lee Downey
8: Trust but Verify: Science and Policy Negotiating Nuclear Testing Treaties - Interviews with Roger Eugene Hill
Diana L. L. Hill
9: Becoming a Weapons Scientist
Hugh Gusterson
10: Rehabilitating Science, Imagining "Bhopal"
Kim Laughlin
11: Of Beets and Radishes: Desovietizing Lithuanian Science
Kathryn Milun(aitis)
12: Andrzej Staruszkiewicz, Physicist
Leszek Koczanowicz
13: Bachigai (Out of Place) in Ibaraki: Tsukuba Science City, Japan
Sharon Traweek
14: Bitter Faiths
Kathleen Stewart
15: Confabulating Jurassic Science
Mario Biagioli
16: Insurgent Urbanism: Interactive Architecture and a Dialogue with Craig Hodgetts
James Holston
17: Kith and Kin in Borderlands
Gudrun Klein
18: Imagining In-formation: The Complex Disconnections of Computer Networks527
Christopher Pound
Contributors
Index
1: Cornucopions of History: A Memoir of Science and the Politics of Private Lives
Livia Polanyi
2: Eye(I)ing the Sciences and Their Signifiers (Language, Tropes, Autobiographers): InterViewing for a Cultural Studies of Science and Technology
Michael M. J. Fischer
3: Twenty-first-Century PET: Looking for Mind and Morality through the Eye of Technology
Joseph Dumit
4: Medicine on the Edge: Conversations with Oncologists
Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good, Irene Kuter, Simon Powell, Herbert C. Hoover, Jr., Maria E. Carson, Rita Linggood.
5: Reflections on Fieldwork in Alameda
Paul Rabinow
6: Innocence and Awakening: Cyberdammerung at the Ashibe Research Laboratory
Allucquere Rosanne Stone
7: The World of Industry-University-Government: Reimagining R&D as America 197
Gary Lee Downey
8: Trust but Verify: Science and Policy Negotiating Nuclear Testing Treaties - Interviews with Roger Eugene Hill
Diana L. L. Hill
9: Becoming a Weapons Scientist
Hugh Gusterson
10: Rehabilitating Science, Imagining "Bhopal"
Kim Laughlin
11: Of Beets and Radishes: Desovietizing Lithuanian Science
Kathryn Milun(aitis)
12: Andrzej Staruszkiewicz, Physicist
Leszek Koczanowicz
13: Bachigai (Out of Place) in Ibaraki: Tsukuba Science City, Japan
Sharon Traweek
14: Bitter Faiths
Kathleen Stewart
15: Confabulating Jurassic Science
Mario Biagioli
16: Insurgent Urbanism: Interactive Architecture and a Dialogue with Craig Hodgetts
James Holston
17: Kith and Kin in Borderlands
Gudrun Klein
18: Imagining In-formation: The Complex Disconnections of Computer Networks527
Christopher Pound
Contributors
Index
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