Journal•ISSN: 1063-1801
Configurations
Johns Hopkins University Press
About: Configurations is an academic journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Narrative & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 1063-1801. Over the lifetime, 589 publications have been published receiving 6860 citations.
Topics: Narrative, Politics, Computer science, Subjectivity, Poetry
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TL;DR: For people nurtured in the worlds in which I grew up, whatever else it also is, nature is good to think with as discussed by the authors. But it has not been a choice, but a complex inheri cation.
Abstract: \"Nature\" is a topos, or commonplace. Nature is a topic I .cannot avoid. It is the imploded, densely packed location for the simulta neously ethnospecific, cultural, political, and scientific conversa tions about what the allowable structures of action and the possible plots in the sacred secular dramas of technoscience-as well as in the analysis of technoscience-might be. This nature, this common place and topical commons, has possessed me sin.ce I was a child. To inhabit this nature has not been a choice, but a complex inheri tance. I was riveted by natural law and fixed in the time zones of the Christian liturgical year, and then set loose in the culture medi um of the molecular biological laboratory. For people nurtured in the worlds in which I grew up, whatever else it also is, nature is good to think with.
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