Aircraft Stories

Decentering the Object in Technoscience

By: John Law

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Hardcover | 24 April 2002

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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 centred and concrete essences and the postmodernist notion that all is fragmented and centreless. The structure and content of Aircraft Stories reflect Law's contention that knowledge, subjects, and-particularly- objects are "fractionally coherent": that is, they are drawn together without necessarily being centred. In studying the process of this particular aircraft's design, construction, and eventual cancellation, Law develops a range of metaphors to describe both its fractional character and the ways its various aspects interact with each other. Offering numerous insights into the way we theorise the working of systems, he explores the overlaps between singularity and multiplicity and reveals rich new meaning in such concepts as oscillation, interference, fractionality, and rhizomatic networks. The methodology and insights of Aircraft Stories will be invaluable to students in science and technology studies and will engage others who are interested in the ways that contemporary paradigms have limited our ability to see objects in their true complexity.

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"Through this lively text, John Law guides us on a tour of the TSR2 that will be a rich resource for anyone interested in the question of how new artifacts come into being. Writers, readers, engineers and aircraft are inseparable components of the project, which involves simultaneously achieving the singularities and recovering the multiplicities of stories and things. Crafting together a complex architecture of subject/object relations, Aircraft Stories offers a prototype for a new form of technoscience storytelling."-Lucy Suchman, Centre for Science Studies/Department of Sociology, Lancaster University

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Non-Fiction Science Science in General Impact of Science & Technology on Society Sociology & Anthropology Engineering & Technology Transport Technology & Trades Aerospace & Aviation Technology Transportation Aircraft & Aviation Other Technologies & Applied Sciences Military Engineering

Philosophy of Science Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Research & Information Information theory Cybernetics & Systems Theory

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Objects
Subjects
Cultures
Heterogeneities
Aesthetics
Decisions
Arborescences
Pinboards
Notes
References
Index
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