Abstract
Science and technology have created many of the problems besetting
us at the turn of the century, yet, paradoxically, we cannot address
them without their assistance. This beautifully illustrated book
takes a fresh approach to resolving the problems of progress and
modernity by reframing science and technology.<br>In an eclectic
and highly original study, Turnbull brings together a wide range
of traditions as diverse as cathedral building, Micronesian navigation,
cartography and turbulence research. He argues that all our differing
ways of producing knowledge, including science, are messy, spatial
and local. Every culture has its own ways of assembling local knowledge,
thereby creating space through the linking of people, practices and
places. The spaces we inhabit and assemblages we work with are not
as homogeneous and coherent as our modernist perspectives have led
us to believe-rather they are complex and heterogeneous motleys.
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