MARTA LOPEZ GIL /ARGENTINE PHILOSOPHER

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TECH-SCIENCE AND OUR TIMES, Buenos Aires, Biblos, 1990 (Several reprints. This book was written in collaboration with Liliana Delgado thanks to a grant from CONyCet).

The hypothesis underlying this book was: tech-science is one of the greatest sources of public power in modern society. Political democracy is overshadowed by this power in decisions affecting our daily life. Political democracy is more concerned with the control of models of urban growth, housing design, selection of innovations, grants and selection of research work to be funded, than with government agencies.
Marx perceived this situation in the mid-nineteenth century and that led him to hold that democracy should move from its political domain to the world of labour. Contemporary societies have been challenged by this demand for over a century. However, we do not seem closer to the democratisation of this world ruled by tech-science, and large organisations, than we were in the time of Marx.
This can be taken to imply either that current technology is not compatible with democracy and with the world of labour, or that technology is not responsible for this astounding concentration of power.
From the point of view of political democracy, it is imperative to rethink science and notions such as method, objectivity, progress and neutrality, not in the a-historical and "pure" Anglo-Saxon way, but rather taking science within our society, tainted by economics and politics just like any other human activity, and inseparable from technology. This is what this book is about; an unfinished work insofar it provides readers with working guidelines to tackle an anthology that includes passages from books written by renowned authors, as well as also from magazines and newspapers. Its information is therefore diverse in its language, its subject matter and its complexity. All of this material is divided into chapters and sections; but the reader is free to choose, leave out and combine the different texts according to his needs and good judgement.

Buy	TECH-SCIENCE AND OUR TIMES, Buenos Aires, Biblos, 1990 (Several reprints. This book was written in collaboration with Liliana Delgado thanks to a grant from CONyCet). The hypothesis underlying this book was: tech-science is one of the greatest sources of public power in modern society. Political democracy is overshadowed by this power in decisions affecting our daily life. Political democracy is more concerned with the control of models of urban growth, housing design, selection of innovations, grants and selection of research work to be funded, than with government agencies. Marx perceived this situation in the mid-nineteenth century and that led him to hold that democracy should move from its political domain to the world of labour. Contemporary societies have been challenged by this demand for over a century. However, we do not seem closer to the democratisation of this world ruled by tech-science, and large organisations, than we were in the time of Marx. This can be taken to imply either that current technology is not compatible with democracy and with the world of labour, or that technology is not responsible for this astounding concentration of power. From the point of view of political democracy, it is imperative to rethink science and notions such as method, objectivity, progress and neutrality, not in the a-historical and "pure" Anglo-Saxon way, but rather taking science within our society, tainted by economics and politics just like any other human activity, and inseparable from technology. This is what this book is about; an unfinished work insofar it provides readers with working guidelines to tackle an anthology that includes passages from books written by renowned authors, as well as also from magazines and newspapers. Its information is therefore diverse in its language, its subject matter and its complexity. All of this material is divided into chapters and sections; but the reader is free to choose, leave out and combine the different texts according to his needs and good judgement.