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Postcolonial technoscience revisited
Social Studies of Science ( IF 2.9 ) Pub Date : 2024-12-17 , DOI: 10.1177/03063127241303778
Cameron Hu

What does a postcolonial inquiry into technoscience do? And what is it for? I develop these questions by reconsidering one powerful idea: that science and technology studies (STS) is postcolonial when it elucidates the hybridity, heterogeneity, and indeterminacy of global technoscientific formations, and does so to falsify colonial fantasies of hegemony expressed in imperious conceptual generalities and sovereign universalisms. Revisiting Warwick Anderson’s expositions of postcolonial STS—initiated in this journal two decades ago—I reflect on the form and force of this critical operation. Despite an animating aversion to universalisms, the pursuit of hybridity and heterogeneity may ultimately universalize a liberal metaphysics of agency. This paradox suggests limits to the critical operation that pits hybridity and indeterminacy against hegemony in a postcolonial spirit.

中文翻译:


重新审视后殖民技术科学



对技术科学的后殖民探究有什么作用?它是干什么用的?我通过重新思考一个强有力的想法来提出这些问题:当科学技术研究 (STS) 阐明了全球技术科学形成的混合性、异质性和不确定性时,它是后殖民主义的,并以此来证伪以专横的概念普遍性和主权普遍主义表达的殖民霸权幻想。重温沃里克·安德森 (Warwick Anderson) 对后殖民主义 STS 的阐述——始于二十年前的本刊——我反思了这一批判行动的形式和力量。尽管对普遍主义的强烈厌恶,但对混合性和异质性的追求可能最终使自由主义的能动性形而上学普遍化。这个悖论表明,在后殖民精神中,将混合性和不确定性与霸权对立起来的批判性操作是有限的。
更新日期:2024-12-17
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