后殖民时代的技术科学重新审视
1Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA.
Social studies of science
|December 17, 2024
概括
技术科学的后殖民调查考察了全球形成,挑战殖民主导权的要求. 然而,专注于杂交可能无意中促进了普遍的自由形而上学,揭示了这一批判性方法的局限性.
科学领域:
- 科学和技术研究 (STS)
- 后殖民主义理论
- 技术科学研究 技术科学研究
背景情况:
- 科学和技术研究 (STS) 历史上一直与后殖民时期的批评有关.
- 一个关键的概念是,后殖民时代的STS在全球技术科学形式中识别了杂交和不确定性.
- 这种方法旨在揭穿殖民地对权和普遍主义的观念.
研究的目的:
- 探索技术科学中后殖民调查的功能和影响.
- 重新评估识别混合性和不确定性的关键操作,以对抗殖民权.
- 调查这种后殖民 STS 方法的潜在悖论和局限性.
主要方法:
- 重新审视后殖民时期科学与技术研究 (STS) 的基础展览.
- 阐明杂交性,异质性和不确定性的关键操作的概念分析.
- 关于后殖民批评与普遍主义之间的关系的哲学反思.
主要成果:
- 追求杂交性和异质性,虽然反对普世主义,但矛盾的是,可能会使自由的行为形而上学普遍化.
- 这一关键的行动,专注于伪造殖民权,遇到固有的局限性.
- 这项研究发现,后殖民时期的批判普世主义的目标与其物质化的潜力之间存在着紧张关系.
结论:
- 后殖民科学技术研究 (STS) 面临一个悖论,即对普遍主义的批评可能导致一种新的普遍化形式.
- 突出混合性和不确定性与权的关键策略具有固有的局限性.
- 需要进一步的调查,以了解后殖民时期对技术科学的全面影响.
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