Intensifying embroilments: Technosciences, imaginaries and publics.
A common thread in the contributions to this special issue can be found in the Foucauldian notion of intensification. Technoscientific imaginaries and publics have long been embroiled; yet, elements of novelty in their relationship can be detected in the ambivalence of the overcoming of traditional purification work; the expanding production of 'prototypical' truths; the uncertain threshold between publics of enquirers, witnesses and lookouts; and the growing indistinction of the everyday and the sublime, of trivial and non-trivial futures. The intensification of old patterns and recent trends determines a critical moment in a literal sense of the word: novel potentialities for a democratic governance of technosciences are opening up, but novel dominative opportunities are disclosing as well.
Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Trieste, Italy.
Luigi
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Pellizzoni
D003256:Community Participation; D003709:Democracy; D007092:Imagination; D011639:Public Opinion; D011640:Public Policy; D012586:Science; D013672:Technology
Dewey; Foucault and intensification; future; governance of science and technology; indeterminacy; material turn; public participation; technoscientific imaginaries