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TECH-SCIENCE AND MY PC. A BOOK OF FRAGMENTS, Buenos Aires, Biblos, 2000
This book is the result of a purposeful decision: to work with readings from writers coming from diverse strands and different, even opposing, backgrounds. Nevertheless, opting for guidelines within the field of tech-science and tech-scientific culture is no neutral business. Nor is the choice and selection of readings. Despite that, the end result is not a "ready to wear", "ready-mix" scheme. It is up to the reader to select paths, unexplored routes from one issue to another, cancel, add, edit. On the other hand, and rooted on our belief that science cannot leave technology aside or move away from culture at large, this work aims at grounding such tenets. It goes over radical epistemological changes: some, relatively new; others, not so novel: hermeneutics, feminism, social-, point-of-view-, complexity- , memetic epistemology. Whatever the stand, some unavoidable questions are: Whose science? Truth according to whom? Why do we hold science in such high esteem? Is what is known "previous" to the person who knows or is it his making? Finally, some of the definite aims of this work are to ponder over the objectivity of science, attach new meanings to its neutrality, reflect yet again on the connections between science and power, keep on the alert as regards two relevant projects of "biotic" culture: the human genome and a digital society within a global cyberworld.

Buy	TECH-SCIENCE AND MY PC. A BOOK OF FRAGMENTS, Buenos Aires, Biblos, 2000 This book is the result of a purposeful decision: to work with readings from writers coming from diverse strands and different, even opposing, backgrounds. Nevertheless, opting for guidelines within the field of tech-science and tech-scientific culture is no neutral business. Nor is the choice and selection of readings. Despite that, the end result is not a "ready to wear", "ready-mix" scheme. It is up to the reader to select paths, unexplored routes from one issue to another, cancel, add, edit. On the other hand, and rooted on our belief that science cannot leave technology aside or move away from culture at large, this work aims at grounding such tenets. It goes over radical epistemological changes: some, relatively new; others, not so novel: hermeneutics, feminism, social-, point-of-view-, complexity- , memetic epistemology. Whatever the stand, some unavoidable questions are: Whose science? Truth according to whom? Why do we hold science in such high esteem? Is what is known "previous" to the person who knows or is it his making? Finally, some of the definite aims of this work are to ponder over the objectivity of science, attach new meanings to its neutrality, reflect yet again on the connections between science and power, keep on the alert as regards two relevant projects of "biotic" culture: the human genome and a digital society within a global cyberworld.