Elusive Memories of Technoscience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7097265 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barry Barnes (University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 142-165 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-6145 • E-ISSN: 1530-9274 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/106361405774270520 |
| OpenAlex | W2137949217 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
Technoscience” is now most commonly used in academic work to refer to sets of activities wherein science and technology have become inextricably intermingled, or else have hybridized in some sense. What, though, do we understand by “science” and by “technology”? The use of these terms has varied greatly, but their current use presumes a society with extensive institutional and occupational differentiation. Only in that kind of context may science and technology be treated as “other” in relation to “the rest” of the social order; whether as differentiated sets of practices or as specialized institutional forms. References to “technoscience” may then be taken to imply a reversal of earlier processes of cultural and institutional differentiation and/or a recombination of separate bodies of practice and skill. Either way a move back to a less differentiated state is implied, which makes it surprising that we appear to have very few memories of technoscience in periods less culturally and institutionally diff
Epistemology · Sociology · Technoscience · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |