{"title":"Diffracting the rays of technoscience: a situated critique of representation.","authors":"Federica Timeto","doi":"10.1007/s10202-011-0099-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10202-011-0099-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This essay focuses on the possibility of adopting a representational approach for technoscience, in which representation is considered as a situated process of dynamic \"intra-action\" (Barad 2007). Re-elaborating the recent critiques of representationalism (Thrift 2008), my analysis begins by analysing Hayles's situated model of representation from an early essay where she explains her definition of constrained constructivism (Hayles [1991] 1997). The essay then discusses the notions of figuration and diffraction and the way they are employed by Haraway in many of her writings for her critique of technoscience (Haraway 1991, 1997). Finally, after considering diffraction through Barad's reading of this practice in the context of her theory of agential realism (2007), it shows the links that relate constrained constructivism, situated knowledge and agential realism, and the way all of them work at \"diffract[ing] the rays of technoscience\" (Haraway 1997: 16) through an alternative representational practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":89217,"journal":{"name":"Poiesis & praxis : international journal of ethics of science and technology assessment","volume":"8 2-3","pages":"151-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10202-011-0099-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30356596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technoscientia est Potentia?: Contemplative, interventionist, constructionist and creationist idea(l)s in (techno)science.","authors":"Karen Kastenhofer, Jan C Schmidt","doi":"10.1007/s10202-011-0101-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10202-011-0101-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Within the realm of nano-, bio-, info- and cogno- (or NBIC) technosciences, the 'power to change the world' is often invoked. One could dismiss such formulations as 'purely rhetorical', interpret them as rhetorical and self-fulfilling or view them as an adequate depiction of one of the fundamental characteristics of technoscience. In the latter case, a very specific nexus between science and technology, or, the epistemic and the constructionist realm is envisioned. The following paper focuses on this nexus drawing on theoretical conceptions as well as empirical material. It presents an overview of different technoscientific ways to 'change the world'-via contemplation and representation, intervention and control, engineering, construction and creation. It further argues that the hybrid character of technoscience makes it difficult (if not impossible) to separate knowledge production from real world interventions and challenges current science and technology policy approaches in fundamental ways.</p>","PeriodicalId":89217,"journal":{"name":"Poiesis & praxis : international journal of ethics of science and technology assessment","volume":"8 2-3","pages":"125-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3234353/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30356595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When does the co-evolution of technology and science overturn into technoscience?","authors":"Ulrich Fiedeler","doi":"10.1007/s10202-011-0102-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10202-011-0102-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, the relations between science and technology, intervention and representation, the natural and the artificial are analysed on the background of the formation of modern science in the sixteenth century. Due to the fact that technique has been essential for modern science from its early beginning, modern science is characterised by a hybridisation of knowledge and intervention. The manipulation of nature in order to measure its properties has steadily increased until artificial things have been produced, such as laser beams, chemical compounds, elementary particles. Furthermore, the structural bracing of natural science, technological development, and industrial exploitation of nature go also back to the foundation of modern science. In order to strengthen the debate on technoscience against this background, the specific characteristics of technoscientific objects have to be clarified as have the specific characteristics of the social organisation of technoscience and its performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":89217,"journal":{"name":"Poiesis & praxis : international journal of ethics of science and technology assessment","volume":"8 2-3","pages":"83-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10202-011-0102-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30356658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The \"technoscientization\" of medicine and its limits: technoscientific identities, biosocialities, and rare disease patient organizations.","authors":"Peter Wehling","doi":"10.1007/s10202-011-0100-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10202-011-0100-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The fact that the emergence of \"technoscience,\" resulting from the coalescing of science and technology, may have serious social and cultural impact has been debated in recent years particularly with regard to the field of medicine. The present article is exploring the scope and limits of the \"technoscientization\" of medicine using the example of rare disease patient associations. It is investigated whether and to what extent these organizations adopt technoscientific illness identities and subscribe to the research priorities and objectives of biomedicine. In addition, it is analyzed whether Paul Rabinow's highly influential concept of biosociality entails a technoscientific model of identity or, quite to the contrary, offers a framework for contesting biomedical ascriptions of identities. As the article shows, patient associations do refer to technoscientific definitions of diseases yet constantly modify and transform them based on their everyday illness experiences. Likewise, the \"biosociality\" of rare disease patients emerges from the shared experience of having been neglected by mainstream medical research rather than from supposedly objective biomedical classifications.</p>","PeriodicalId":89217,"journal":{"name":"Poiesis & praxis : international journal of ethics of science and technology assessment","volume":"8 2-3","pages":"67-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10202-011-0100-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30356657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward an epistemology of nano-technosciences: Probing technoscience from a historical perspective: on today's surprising prevalence and relevance of Francis Bacon.","authors":"Jan C Schmidt","doi":"10.1007/s10202-011-0104-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10202-011-0104-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper aims to contribute to the attempts to clarify and classify the vague notion of \"technosciences\" from a historical perspective. A key question that is raised is as follows: Does Francis Bacon, one of the founding fathers of the modern age, provide a hitherto largely undiscovered programmatic position, which might facilitate a more profound understanding of technosciences? The paper argues that nearly everything we need today for an ontologically well-informed epistemology of technoscience can be found in the works of Bacon-this position will be called epistemological real-constructivism. Rather than realist or constructivist, empiricist or rationalist, Bacon's position can best be understood as real-constructivist since it challenges modern dichotomies. Reflection upon the contemporary relevance of Bacon could contribute to the expanding and critical discussion on technoscience. In the following I will reconstruct the term \"technoscience\". My finding is that at least four different understandings or types of the term \"technoscience\" co-exist. In a second step, I will analyze and elaborate on Bacon's epistemological position. I will identify central elements of the four different understandings in Bacon's work. Finally, I will conclude that the epistemology of technoscience is, indeed, very old-it is the epistemological position put forward by Bacon.</p>","PeriodicalId":89217,"journal":{"name":"Poiesis & praxis : international journal of ethics of science and technology assessment","volume":"8 2-3","pages":"103-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10202-011-0104-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30356659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich: Was es bedeutet, gesund zu sein. Philosophie der Medizin","authors":"Dorothee Dörr","doi":"10.1007/s10202-011-0096-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10202-011-0096-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89217,"journal":{"name":"Poiesis & praxis : international journal of ethics of science and technology assessment","volume":"8 1","pages":"57 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10202-011-0096-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52042396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Decker, Rüdiger Dillmann, Thomas Dreier, Martin Fischer, Mathias Gutmann, Ingrid Ott, Indra Spiecker Genannt Döhmann
{"title":"Service robotics: do you know your new companion? Framing an interdisciplinary technology assessment.","authors":"Michael Decker, Rüdiger Dillmann, Thomas Dreier, Martin Fischer, Mathias Gutmann, Ingrid Ott, Indra Spiecker Genannt Döhmann","doi":"10.1007/s10202-011-0098-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10202-011-0098-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Service-Robotic-mainly defined as \"non-industrial robotics\"-is identified as the next economical success story to be expected after robots have been ubiquitously implemented into industrial production lines. Under the heading of service-robotic, we found a widespread area of applications reaching from robotics in agriculture and in the public transportation system to service robots applied in private homes. We propose for our interdisciplinary perspective of technology assessment to take the human user/worker as common focus. In some cases, the user/worker is the effective subject acting by means of and in cooperation with a service robot; in other cases, the user/worker might become a pure object of the respective robotic system, for example, as a patient in a hospital. In this paper, we present a comprehensive interdisciplinary framework, which allows us to scrutinize some of the most relevant applications of service robotics; we propose to combine technical, economical, legal, philosophical/ethical, and psychological perspectives in order to design a thorough and comprehensive expert-based technology assessment. This allows us to understand the potentials as well as the limits and even the threats connected with the ongoing and the planned implementation of service robots into human lifeworld-particularly of those technical systems displaying increasing grades of autonomy.</p>","PeriodicalId":89217,"journal":{"name":"Poiesis & praxis : international journal of ethics of science and technology assessment","volume":"8 1","pages":"25-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10202-011-0098-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30319394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rainforest conservation as a strategy of climate policy.","authors":"Dieter Cansier","doi":"10.1007/s10202-011-0095-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10202-011-0095-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tropical forest conservation in developing countries has repeatedly been highlighted as a new element in international climate policy. However, no clear ideas yet exist as to what shape such a conservation strategy might take. In the present paper, we would like to make some observations to this end. It is shown how projects in order to reduce CO(2)-emissions resulting from deforestation and degradation (REDD) can be integrated into a system of tradable emission rights in an industrialised country and which requirements ought to be fulfilled. Instruments are emission credits and emission allowances. Driving actors interested in emission rights through forest projects may be private investors or the rainforest state itself. The efficiency of the system depends on a great extent on a binding reference path for the tolerable emissions from deforestation, which has been agreed upon and adhered to by the rainforest country by means of a forest law aimed at limiting deforestation. Our considerations lead us to conclude that the national baseline approach with an appropriate contribution by the rainforest country coupled with a decentralised system with private investors seems the most viable option. Since additional burdens are imposed on the rainforest country to some extent, a compromise could consist of agreeing on a moderate deforestation path, which is harmonised with the benefits from the forest projects. Combining both programmes (offset credits and emission allowances) is particularly attractive because all participants, and especially the industrialised country, benefit from it. The industrialised country can expand its climate conservation programme without any additional costs to a certain degree.</p>","PeriodicalId":89217,"journal":{"name":"Poiesis & praxis : international journal of ethics of science and technology assessment","volume":"8 1","pages":"45-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10202-011-0095-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30319285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Privacy revisited? Old ideals, new realities, and their impact on biobank regimes.","authors":"Arndt Bialobrzeski, Jens Ried, Peter Dabrock","doi":"10.1007/s10202-011-0094-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10202-011-0094-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biobanks, collecting human specimen, medical records, and lifestyle-related data, face the challenge of having contradictory missions: on the one hand serving the collective welfare through easy access for medical research, on the other hand adhering to restrictive privacy expectations of people in order to maintain their willingness to participate in such research. In this article, ethical frameworks stressing the societal value of low-privacy expectations in order to secure biomedical research are discussed. It will turn out that neither utilitarian nor communitarian or classical libertarian ethics frameworks will help to serve both goals. Instead, John Rawls' differentiation of the \"right\" and the \"good\" is presented in order to illustrate the possibility of \"serving two masters\": individual interests of privacy, and societal interests of scientific progress and intergenerational justice. In order to illustrate this counterbalancing concept with an example, the five-pillar concept of the German Ethics Council will be briefly discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":89217,"journal":{"name":"Poiesis & praxis : international journal of ethics of science and technology assessment","volume":"8 1","pages":"9-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10202-011-0094-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30319393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflecting biomedical, technological and environmental issues of our modern society. The recent \"Forum\" section in Poiesis & Praxis.","authors":"Stephan Lingner","doi":"10.1007/s10202-011-0097-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10202-011-0097-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89217,"journal":{"name":"Poiesis & praxis : international journal of ethics of science and technology assessment","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10202-011-0097-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30319391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}