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Neoliberalism and Technoscience Marja Ylonen

Neoliberalism and Technoscience By Marja Ylonen

Neoliberalism and Technoscience by Marja Ylonen


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With an 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.

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Neoliberalism and Technoscience: Critical Assessments by Marja Ylonen

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.

Neoliberalism and Technoscience Reviews

Readers will come away from this book with the distinct sense that neoliberalism, whatever its strengths and weaknesses, has successfully forced humanity to re-define itself as a species in the face of various technoscientific promises and products that so-called neoliberals have promoted. Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, UK Referring to Eschers famous work of Drawing Hands, the authors take-up the challenge of sketching the co-construction of neoliberalism and technoscience. By providing enlightening analyses and original perspectives the book moves this complicated relationship to the foreground of academic debate, inspiring us to rethink connections and explore them further. Niki Vermeulen, University of Manchester, UK

About Marja Ylonen

Luigi Pellizzoni is Associate Professor of Environmental and Political Sociology at the University of Trieste, Italy. Marja YlAnen works as a researcher at the University of JyvAskylA, Finland.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Luigi Pellizzoni, Maija Ylonen; Part 1 Neoliberalism, technoscience and late capitalism; Chapter 1 Neoliberalism and technology: Perpetual innovation or perpetual crisis?, Laurence Reynolds, Bronislaw Szerszynski; Chapter 2 Hegemonic contingencies: Neoliberalized technoscience and neorationality, Luigi Pellizzoni, Marja Ylonen; Chapter 3 Neoliberalism and ICTs: Late capitalism and technoscience in cultural perspective, Alessandro Gandini; Part 2 Neoliberalism, technoscience and humanity; Chapter 4 The end of history and the search for perfection. Conflicting teleologies of transhumanism and (neo)liberal democracy, Simone Arnaldi; Chapter 5 Pre-empting the threat of human deficiencies, Imre Bard; Chapter 6 The question of citizenship and freedom in the psychiatric reform process: A possible presence of neoliberal governance practices, Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira, Karina Lopes Padilha, Miriam Starosky, Rodrigo Costa Nascimento; Part 3 Neoliberalism, technoscience and the environment; Chapter 7 Neoliberalizing technoscience and environment: EU policy for competitive, sustainable biofuels, Les Lcvidow, Theo Papaioannou, Kean Birch; Chapter 8 Configuring homo carbonomicus: Carbon markets, calculative techniques, and the green neoliberal, Anders Blok; Chapter 9 The green transition, neoliberalism, and the technosciences, David J. Hess; Chapter 10 Conclusion Making sense of neoliberalism and technoscience, Marja Ylonen, Luigi Pellizzoni;

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NPB9781409435327
9781409435327
1409435326
Neoliberalism and Technoscience: Critical Assessments by Marja Ylonen
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2012-09-13
256
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