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Index
Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Technology in world politics
‘God from the machine’: traditional approaches to technology in International Relations Things can be different: epistemological and ontological challenges to determinism Locating STS-IR in the field of International Relations Plan of the book Notes References
PART I: Theories
2. Social Construction of Technology: How objects acquire meaning in society
Beyond the individual innovator: the Social Construction of Technology Enduring technologies: momentum, path dependence, reverse salients and the first-mover advantage Discourse and interpretive flexibility: how radical a constructivism? SCOT, global pluralism, and the fluid meaning of objects Looking towards the future: what role will new technologies play? Conclusion: beyond the material–ideational divide Notes References
3. Actor-Network Theory: Objects and actants, networks and narratives
Technological innovation: insights from ANT classics Sensitizing concepts: ANT’s vocabulary ANT and the practice turn in International Relations What to do with ANT: in conclusion Notes References
4. Critical Theory of Technology: Design, domination and uneven development
Marx and Engels on technology and the forces of production Technological artefacts: instruments of liberation or structures of domination? Beyond the impasse: Feenberg’s Critical Theory of Technology Technology, the state, and uneven and combined development Conclusion: the ambivalent futures of the Critical Theory of Technology in IR Notes References
5. New Materialism and Posthumanism: Bodies, brains, and complex causality
The body in IR Neuropolitics and knowledge politics Posthumanism versus anthropocentrism Novelty for the sake of novelty? Problems in the new materialisms Conclusion Notes References
PART II: Illustrations
6. Nuclear Technoaesthetics: Sensory politics from Trinity to the virtual bomb in Los Alamos
The bomb’s future The above-ground testing regime (1945–1962): on tactility and the nuclear sublime The underground test regime (1963–1992): embracing complexity, fetishizing production The Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship regime (1995–2010): on virtual bombs and prosthetic senses Conclusion: of bombs and bodies in the plutonium economy Note References
7. The Global Politics of Internet Governance: A case study in closure and technological design
Closure, legitimacy and Internet governance The U.S. ‘Internet Freedom’ strategy Many Internets for many states? The China Internet White Paper Disruptions and the Snowden factor Conclusion: strategic narratives, closure and Internet foreign policies Notes References
8. Infrastructures of the Global Economy: The shipping container as a political artefact
The container as a political artefact World politics in the container The container in world politics Conclusion: conduits of governance and exploitation Notes References
9. A Revolution in Military Affairs?: Changing technologies and changing practices of warfare
Opening up the black box of the war machine Three shortcomings in discussions of technology and war Technoscientific war in the ‘information age’ Conclusion: assemblages of the war machine Notes References
10. Extra-terrestrial Technopolitics: The politics of technology in space
The ‘space age’: above and beyond politics? Space technologies and the ‘closed world’ of the Cold War The technopolitics of Earth observation from space Re-envisioning world politics The democratisation of space technologies? Conclusion: suspended between different possibilities Notes References
11. The Geopolitics of Extinction: From the Anthropocene to the Eurocene
The character of global extinction: the Anthropocene as geopolitical fact The peril of similarity: or, the great homogenization Transformation, transcendence, or more of the same: the geopolitics of geoengineering? Conclusion: an elegy for human transformation Notes References
12. Conclusion: Technology and International Relations theory: The end of the beginning
Powerful scallops and legitimate networks: practical, moral and evaluative dimensions of STS-IR Similarly different approaches to Science and Technology Studies in International Relations Theorizing the International alongside the technological Conclusion: the end of the beginning for STS-IR Notes References
Glossary Guide to further reading Index
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