Neoliberalism and Technoscience

Luigi Pellizzoni is Associate Professor of Environmental and Political Sociology at the University of Trieste, Italy. Marja Ylönen works as a researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Introduction, Luigi Pellizzoni, Maija Ylönen; Part 1 Neoliberalism, technoscience and late capitalism; Chapter 1 Neoliberalism and technology: Perpetual innovation or perpetual crisis?, Laurence Reynolds, Bronislaw Szerszynski; Chapter 2 Hegemonic contingencies: Neoliberalized technoscience and neorationality, Luigi Pellizzoni, Marja Ylönen; Chapter 3 Neoliberalism and ICTs: Late capitalism and technoscience in cultural perspective, Alessandro Gandini; Part 2 Neoliberalism, technoscience and humanity; Chapter 4 The end of history and the search for perfection. Conflicting teleologies of transhumanism and (neo)liberal democracy, Simone Arnaldi; Chapter 5 Pre-empting the threat of human deficiencies, Imre Bárd; Chapter 6 The question of citizenship and freedom in the psychiatric reform process: A possible presence of neoliberal governance practices, Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira, Karina Lopes Padilha, Míriam Starosky, Rodrigo Costa Nascimento; Part 3 Neoliberalism, technoscience and the environment; Chapter 7 Neoliberalizing technoscience and environment: EU policy for competitive, sustainable biofuels, Les Lcvidow, Theo Papaioannou, Kean Birch; Chapter 8 Configuring homo carbonomicus: Carbon markets, calculative techniques, and the green neoliberal, Anders Blok; Chapter 9 The green transition, neoliberalism, and the technosciences, David J. Hess; Chapter 10 Conclusion Making sense of neoliberalism and technoscience, Marja Ylönen, Luigi Pellizzoni;