?Science Studies and Science Fiction: Critical Considerations?

Ioanna Stavrou and Constantine Skordoulis

Ioanna.k.stavrou@gmail.com

This work refers to the association between Science Studies and science fiction. Τhe conjunction of disciplines / cultures figured by the term "science fiction" bears re-examination as a resource for Science Studies and a potential mediator in science-humanities encounters. Moreover, science fiction, as product and part of the social consciousness of the contemporary world, could be an important participant in critical negotiations with techno scientific discourses. These creative and critical conversations around Science and Technology, such as science fiction, function as an enormously fertile environment of socio-cultural understanding of Science and Technology, and situate science fiction as a resourceful agent to respond to the political and ethical consequences that Science and Technology have in the world (human and non-human). Science fiction literary genre not only describes scientific culture but also intervenes in the social debates about the civic role of science, the experimental process, and impact of Τechnology on society and can be read as investigations of the interlacing of scientific knowledge, technical skill, and the cultural mores.

Symposium 2

History and philosophy of science symposium
Organizer: SKordoulis K., Discussant: Pournari M..

8 May 2009 15:00 - 17:00