Guest Editors: Philip Tew and Wendy Wheeler
This
issue of new formations tries to overcome some of the binary rigidities that impede
a dialectical understanding of science. Scientific materialism and realism are
at the heart of the project of modernity. Nevertheless, and in spite of its real
emancipatory powers, science and its claims to truth seldom entirely escape from
the ideological envelope of their times or from the nets of funding sources, interest
group concerns and career-building in which, like everything else, they are ensnared.
In addition, the scientific world-view often re-inforces a positivistic and narrow
version of what counts as facts, resisting wider cultural assessments of value.
Yet, the idea that scientific endeavour is just bad, and that our best energies
should be directed towards a wholesale critique of its ideological underpinnings,
is equally one-sided. This collection of essays attempts to find a way through
the pitfalls that litter the way to a more nuanced understanding of the complex
figures that make up the relationship between science and culture.
Contents
and Contributors
Christopher Norris: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
AS 'HISTORY OF THE PRESENT': QUANTUM THEORY, ANTI-REALISM, AND PARADIGM CHANGE
Patricia Waugh: SCIENCE AND THE AESTHETICS OF ENGLISH MODERNISM
Merja
Polvinen: READING THE TEXTURE OF REALITY: INTERPRETATIONS OF CHAOS THEORY
IN LITERATURE AND LITERARY STUDIES
Peter Hallward: 'EVERYTHING IS REAL':
GILLES DELEUZE AND CREATIVE UNIVOCITY
Lisa Lynch: TRANS-GENESIS: AN
INTERVIEW WITH EDUARDO KAC
Steve Baker: PHILOSOPHY IN THE WILD? KAC
AND DERRIDA ON ANIMALS AND RESPONSIBILITY
Kate Soper: HUMANS, ANIMALS,
MACHINES
Debra Benita Shaw: THE SCIENTIST GOES SURFING: TIMOTHY LEARY,
LSD AND THE INTERNET
Roger Luckhurst: DEMON-HAUNTED DARWINISM
Deborah
Philips: FUTURE IMPERFECT: VERSIONS OF SCIENCE IN THE THEME PARK
Megan
Stern: A BRIEF HISTORY OF STEPHEN HAWKING: MAKING SCIENTIFIC MEANING IN CONTEMPORARY
ANGLO-AMERICAN CULTURE
REVIEWS
Elizabeth B Silva: EVERYDAY
LIFE INVENTED AND REVISITED
Esther Leslie: DECADE GRANDEUR
Eleanor
Byrne: ETHNICITY BEYOND THE PALE
Mark Perryman: FANDOM RESISTANCE
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