Capturing the Imaginary: Vanguards, Visions and the Synthetic Biology Revolution
Holtz Center Visiting Lecture Series
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Date
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Time
4 p.m.
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Stephen Hilgartner (Cornell) argues that the revolutionaries most likely to be taken seriously today advocate change grounded in science and technology rather than “political” revolutions. How do those who position themselves as the vanguards of sociotechnical “revolutions” make radical change seem imaginable and even plausible? His talk explores the domain of synthetic biology, a domain that proponents often describe in revolutionary terms.
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