Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience

by John Law

Book Overview

In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells "stories" about a British attempt to build a military aircraft-the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways in which particular technological projects can be understood in a world of complex contexts.
Law works to upset the binary between the modernist concept of knowledge, subjects, and objects as having centered and concrete essences and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822328240
• ISBN13: 9780822328247
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.5"