Re-skilling the Social Practices: Open Source and Life-Towards a Commons-Based Peer Production in Agro-biotechnology?

Inspired by the thinking of authors such as Andrew Feenberg, Tim Ingold and Richard Sennett, this article sets forth substantial criticism of the 'social uprooting of technology' paradigm, which deterministically considers modern technology an autonomous entity, independent and indifferent to the so...

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Publicado en:Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 1181 - 1201
Autores principales: Nicolosi, Guido, Ruivenkamp, Guido
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Sep2013
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