Public Intellectuals, Information Politics and the Manichean Moment

Intellectuals and the Rise of Mass Politics

Effecting reality : intellectuals and politics in the current conjuncture

165 In this brief contribution, I take up three issues under the headings respectively, leverage, linkage and ‘economy’. The first might be called the current political economy of intellectual production; it asks the question what do social scientists do to affect reality. In the second part of the paper I try to alert us to the slipperiness of key institutions and concepts; it cannot be assume...

The Need for Public Intellectuals: A Space for STS

In this address to the president’s plenary at the 2001 annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the author reflected on then recent international events and their possible implications for the research and teaching agendas of the social studies of science, technology, and medicine. He proposed the political engagement of science, technology, and s...

Diaspora , Intellectuals , and the State

NO AREA OF PUBLIC CONSCIENCE ILLUST"TES THE ANXIOUS MEETING of state policy and cultural mythology more than illegal immigration. As once-con#dent national polities in Europe and the United States su$er a series of economic shocks, a backlash has gathered momentum, targeting the imported labor that in many ways symbolizes the so% core of the old regimes’ economic foundations. A variety of extre...

Complexity, Politics and Public Policy

This paper explores the meaning and role of emerging insights from the sciences of complexity in the study of politics and public policy. Considerable attention is devoted to the relevance of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) to understanding important phenomena in politics and the realm of public policy. While traditional approaches to the study of these areas are not without merit, an understand...