"One
way of beginning is to differentiate the different disciplines within
the technosciences - that is, to begin to work against the notion
that there is a single, monolithic, agential entity called 'science',
which obsessively consumes something called 'nature'. .. Luckily,
one does not have to begin from scratch when approaching these different
sciences. Each of these sciences has its own history, it own modes
whereby it is established as 'official science', and a changing
set of epistemological assumptions
from which research proceeds. ...
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