APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY


Postmodern praxis often seems almost to be equated with the swift change ("progress"?) occurring in technology, especially, but not exclusively, information technology. Here we open THE PROGRAMME to windows on this aspect of postmodern culture.


References from the World Wide Web

VideoBridge International. A commercial communication company specializing in links to post-Cold-War Russia illustrates the characteristics of the postmodern, global business assemblage.

Science Wars, by Andrew Ross. Ross's essay argues why "technoscience" (the conflation of disinterested scientific inquiry and technological application for profit) deserves to be scrutinized by cultural critics. He tells us how and why the conservative defenders of science need to call off their "science war" against cultural criticism; they need to come to understand why the postmodern critique of technoscience is an essential corrective to the dominance of technoscience.

Bibliographic References

References from the PROGRAMME


20 January 1997; updated 23 March 1997
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