... centuries, communology challenges orthodoxy. This article presents communology’s evolving terminology, historical perspective, and intersections with law, politics, technology, and social sciences. The commons are subversive to the status quo; they do not assume—as given—sovereignty, statehood, boundaries...

... related elements of them to the South. The subject of technological change, I have found, is too com­ prehensive to examine as an entity. It conjures up that well-known, almost inseparable couplet, science and technology. I have found it useful to divide this generic subject into four subsystems funda­...

... Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Notes on Contributors anne balsamo teaches courses in science, technology, and culture at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is working on a book called Technologies of the Gendered Body, to be published by Duke Univer­ sity Press. gareth...

... from the University of London, Goldsmith's College. Her main interests include digital media studies, journalism, political economy, and regulation of media. Elizabeth Collingwood-Selby is professor in the philosophy department at the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences. She holds...

... unpleasant overtones. On the whole, however, the three tremendous fields to which I have referred are consumers and not producers of science. They produce little or no new or fundamental knowledge about the world we live in, but they use such knowledge for technological ends. It has often been insisted...

... exiled during and after the tech­ nologically hallucinogenic Gulf War.1 About the same time, I was deployed to a technological institution to teach gender studies (their term) or feminism (mine). Situated within different histories, bio­ graphical as well as cultural, these technological encounters...

..., and behavioral regions of science; and in the same year a report from a study committee of the Ford Foundation referred to the behavioral sciences. Three years later the Ford Foundation committed several million dollars to a program of research in the behavioral sciences, an event that gave rise...

... of Political Economy . Translated by Nicolaus Martin . London : Penguin . Medina Eden . 2011 . Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Mirowski Philip . 2002 . Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science . New...

.... Berkner is also director of its academic arm, the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, and has held high offices in scientific and governmental bodies. His latest book is The Scientific Age (Yale, 1964). Educating Southern Manpower for Technological Change 435 arise the ideas that insure a healthy...

... . www.airprotein.com . Alaimo Stacy . 2016 . Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Broderick Damien . 2012 . “ Terrible Angels: The Singularity and Science Fiction .” Journal of Consciousness Studies 19 , no. 1–2...

... imagery, Haraway concludes, is useful in illustrating the argument for refusing an anti-science metaphysics, a demonology of technology. Furthermore, it can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves. Haraway s Manifesto advocates...

...; and technology is too often brought to bear on black bodies (branding, forced sterilization, the Tuskegee experiment, and tasers come readily to mind). Moreover, the sublegitimate status of science fiction as a pulp genre in Western literature mirrors the subaltern position to which blacks have been relegated...

... factors, it is also influenced to some substantial degree by the country s relationships with the rest of the world. The objective of this study is to present some thoughts about the effect on Soviet technological progress of the nature of its international relations. The Effects of Isolation...

... flights of fantasy that remain firmly grounded in our current cultural preoccu­ pations with sex, gender, and angry women. Sex is not a newcomer to science and technology. Feminist schol­ ars have analyzed how scientific discourses presented in the guise of impartial and objective truth have historically...

... source outside ourselves may indeed be true and valid, but the real margin of plenitude is in our indige­ nous culture. The quest for Western science and technology in the mid-nineteenth century was grounded in this sense of cultural certi­ tude. The earliest textbooks on Western science from...

... • Against the Day • January 2015 References Benkler, Yochai. 2006. The Wealth of Networks. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Blanchette, Jean François. 2011. “A Material History of Bits.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 62, no. 6: 1042–57...

... ecocriticism and animal studies. Science and technology stud- ies has pioneered a number of variations of biotechnological and disability studies. Media studies is a planet of its own, which has led to new media, and more. Environmental studies has always been postanthropocentric and today mutates...

...: Science and Industry in the Network Society held in November the participants from both the United States and Japan talked about the same subjects. But the tone was distinctly different. Here technology transfer...

... University Press . Mitchell Robert Waldby Catherine . 2010 . “National Biobanks: Clinical Labour, Risk Production, and the Creation of Biovalue.” Science, Technology, and Human Values 35 , no. 3 : 330 – 55 . Moretti Franco . 2000 . “The Slaughterhouse of Literature.” Modern...

..., as the industry calls hard disk drives, modems, and printers. Computer ethics is a problem-solving discourse, yet another technological fix of externalities, when what is required is something that transcends case studies of specific ethical dilemmas and reasserts the utopian potential of human capabilities...