Journal•ISSN: 0950-5431
Science As Culture
Taylor & Francis
About: Science As Culture is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Biology. It has an ISSN identifier of 0950-5431. Over the lifetime, 948 publications have been published receiving 16961 citations.
Topics: Politics, Biology, Futures contract, Health care, Social movement
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TL;DR: The Californian Ideology as mentioned in this paper defines a heterogeneous orthodoxy for the coming information age: a loose alliance of writers, hackers, capitalists, and artists from the West Coast of the United States.
Abstract: A the end of the twentieth century, the long predicted convergence of the media, computing, and telecommunications into hypermedia is finally happening. Once again, capitalism's relentless drive to diversify and intensify the creative powers of human labour is on the verge of qualitatively transforming the way in which we work, play, and live together. By integrating different technologies around common protocols, something is being created which is more than the sum of its parts. When the ability to produce and receive unlimited amounts of information in any form is combined with the reach of the global telephone networks, existing forms of work and leisure can be fundamentally transformed. New industries will be born and current stock market favourites will swept away. At such moments of profound social change, anyone who can offer a simple explanation of what is happening will be listened to with great interest. At this crucial juncture, a loose alliance of writers, hackers, capitalists, and artists from the West Coast of the United States have succeeded in defining a heterogeneous orthodoxy for the coming information age: the Californian Ideology. This new faith has emerged from a bizarre fusion of the cultural bohemianism of San Francisco with the hi-tech industries of
548 citations
TL;DR: This alternative understanding of the basic forces and responsibilities underlying public responses recognizes that they have intellectual substance, yet their intellectual substance does not correspond with institutional expert categories, since it goes much deeper than simply ‘disagreeing with’ or ‘rejecting’ expert views.
Abstract: (2001). Creating Public Alienation: Expert Cultures of Risk and Ethics on GMOs. Science as Culture: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 445-481.
542 citations
TL;DR: The authors argues that the trend towards automation of higher education as implemented in North American universities today is a battle between students and professors on one side, and university administrations and companies with "educational products" to sell on the other.
Abstract: In recent years changes in universities, especially in North America, show that we have entered a new era in higher education, one which is rapidly drawing the halls of academe into the age of automation. Automation - the distribution of digitized course material online, without the participation of professors who develop such material - is often justified as an inevitable part of the new "knowledge-based" society. It is assumed to improve learning and increase wider access. In practice, however, such automation is often coercive in nature - being forced upon professors as well as students - with commercial interests in mind. This paper argues that the trend towards automation of higher education as implemented in North American universities today is a battle between students and professors on one side, and university administrations and companies with "educational products" to sell on the other. It is not a progressive trend towards a new era at all, but a regressive trend, towards the rather old era of mass-production, standardization and purely commercial interests.
542 citations
TL;DR: For example, against the cartographic opposition between cities and nature in modern western societies, the idea of urban ecology has seemed little more than a contradiction in terms as mentioned in this paper. But things are brewing in...
Abstract: Against the cartographic opposition between cities and natures in modern western societies the idea of urban ecology has seemed little more than a contradiction in terms. But things are brewing in ...
356 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the socio-environmental metabolic relations that come together in this global-local place are considered, and they are compared to the metabolic relations found in London's Piccadilly Circus.
Abstract: Imagine standing on Piccadilly Circus in London and considering the socio-environmental metabolic relations that come together in this global–local place. Smells, tastes, things, and bodies from al...
339 citations