Neoliberalism and technoscience: critical assessments
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012
Series:Theory, technology and society
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Part 1: Neoliberalism, technoscience and late capitalism; 1 Neoliberalism and technology: Perpetual innovation or perpetual crisis?; 2 Hegemonic contingencies: Neoliberalized technoscience and neorationality; 3 Neoliberalism and ICTs: Late capitalism and technoscience in cultural perspective; Part 2: Neoliberalism, technoscience and humanity; 4 The end of history and the search for perfection. Conflicting teleologies of transhumanism and (neo)liberal democracy; 5 Pre-empting the threat of human deficiencies
6 The question of citizenship and freedom in the psychiatric reform process: A possible presence of neoliberal governance practicesPart 3: Neoliberalism, technoscience and the environment; 7 Neoliberalizing technoscience and environment: EU policy for competitive, sustainable biofuels; 8 Configuring homo carbonomicus: Carbon markets, calculative techniques, and the green neoliberal; 9 The green transition, neoliberalism, and the technosciences
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the connection between processes of neoliberalization and the advancement and transformation of technoscience. Drawing on a range of theoretical insights, it explores a variety of issues including the digital revolution and the rise of immaterial culture, the rationale of psychiatric reforms and biotechnology regulation, discourses of social threats and human enhancement, and carbon markets and green energy policies. A rich exploration of the overall logic of technoscientific innovation within late capitalism, and the emergence of a novel view of human agency with regard to the social and natural world, this volume reveals the interdependence of technoscience and the neoliberalization of society. Presenting the latest research from a leading team of scholars, "Neoliberalism and Technoscience" will be of interest to scholars of sociology, politics, geography and science and technology studies
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 245 pages)
ISBN:9781409435334
1409435334
1306149355
9781306149358

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