Technonatures: Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-first Century
Technonatures: Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-first Century
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技术性质：二十一世纪的环境、技术、空间和地点
DOI：
10.5860/choice.47-4745
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发表时间：
2009
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通讯作者：
C. Wilbert
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作者：
D. White;C. Wilbert
环境主义和社会科学似乎正处于迷失方向甚至转型时期。在这本创新的文集中，国际领先的思想家探讨了这样一种观念，即对当前“生态政治”萎靡不振的一种解释是，我们越来越多地发现自己在“技术自然”的空间/时间中进行谈判。国际贡献者描绘了我们技术自然现状的政治生态，并指出了技术自然未来的可能路径。
“技术自然”一词得益于雷蒙德·威廉姆斯以来的一系列环境文化理论，它对环境政治可以有效地建立在仅从生态或自然角度捍卫纯粹、真实或理想化过去的修辞上的观点提出了质疑。通过使用“技术自然”一词作为思考当代自然政治的组织神话和隐喻，本系列试图探索社会自然讨论中一个日益明显的维度。技术自然强调了越来越多的声音，认为我们不仅生活在不同的社会本质中，而且在这些本质中，我们对世界的认识越来越受到技术的影响、产生、制定和争论。
Environmentalism and social sciences appear to be in a period of disorientation and perhaps transition. In this innovative collection, leading international thinkers explore the notion that one explanation for the current malaise of the “politics of ecology” is that we increasingly find ourselves negotiating “technonatural” space/times. International contributors map the political ecologies of our technonatural present and indicate possible paths for technonatural futures.
The term “technonatures” is in debt to a long line of environmental cultural theory from Raymond Williams onwards, problematizing the idea that a politics of the environment can be usefully grounded in terms of the rhetoric of defending the pure, the authentic, or an idealized past solely in terms of the ecological or the natural. In using the term “technonatures” as an organizing myth and metaphor for thinking about the politics of nature in contemporary times, this collection seeks to explore one increasingly pronounced dimension of the social natures discussion. Technonatures highlights a growing range of voices considering the claim that we are not only inhabiting diverse social natures but that within such natures our knowledge of our worlds is ever more technologically mediated, produced, enacted, and contested.