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Title: Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience (Science and Cultural Theory) by John Law ISBN: 0-8223-2824-0 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I was dubious at first
Comment: Unless you are very used to post-modern theory, you will not find Law's idea lucid at first. I believe that I shook my head in disbelief. His explanation of a fractal reality fell on death ears, but then I read more. Once I finished the book and discussed it in class, I realized that Law had altered how I viewed technoscience. This book is highly recommended and Law should be commended for his approach to a reconciliation of the modern and post-modern.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sublime stories on things in their making
Comment: While at no point downspeaking to its reader, this book poses a large number of essential questions on technology, science and design. Based on the case of the TSR-2 aircraft, it keeps on asking stubbornly like a detective investigating a crime, uncovering bit by bit how objects are not singular, homogeneous entities, but just as heterogene and active in the formation of society and things as the subjects. It makes very clear that the 'interpellation' between human and nonhuman actors is crucial to investigate, and is itself a paradigmatic example on how to conduct such studies. Its points on the relevance of oscillating between modernity and postmodernity are lucid, imaginative and very informing.
Rating: 1
Summary: I still hate this book
Comment: I had to rate this a second time because my one star rating only reduced the overall rating (it's been reviewed by one other reader) to a two and a half and that's two and a half too many.
I feel like a chump for buying it, but I'm happy admitting my mistake to the world if it could save one helpless soul from having to read paragraphs like...:
"The book as a whole, then, is not treelike in structure. It is not an arborescence. Instead it takes the form of a rhizomatic network. It makes overlaps and juxtapositions, and it makes interference effects as a result of making these overlaps. So that is the fourth way of introducing the book. It is about writing fractionally." - p. 9 John Law, Aircraft Stories.
You really don't want to know about other three ways of introducing the book. I was struggling during the first two, the third had me gasping for air and number four was kinda it for me.
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Title: Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality (Philosophy of Technology) by Evan Selinger, Donna Haraway, Don Ihde, Bruno Latour, Andrew Pickering ISBN: 0253216060 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: War of the Worlds: What About Peace? by Bruno Latour, Bruno Latour, John Tresch ISBN: 0971757518 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (Science and Cultural Theory) by Annemarie Mol ISBN: 0822329174 Publisher: Duke University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Shaping Technology / Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change (Inside Technology) by Wiebe Bijker, John Law ISBN: 0262521946 Publisher: The MIT Press Pub. Date: 29 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: The Social Shaping of Technology by Donald MacKenzie ISBN: 0335199135 Publisher: Open University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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