Nanomedicine and Space: Discursive Orders of Mediating Innovations
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This paper examines from the perspective of discourse analysis the rhetoric of negotiation in the area of nanomedicine and compares it to the debate on genetic engineering. The following questions will be raised: what kind of symbolic space is generated by the negotiations and what role does this space play in determining the possibilities for communication regarding future nanotechnological innovations? For example, which position does the vision of the nanobot inhabit in the discourses of negotiation? Does the nanobot represent a discursive interface between the concepts of technological miniaturization and hybridization of nature and technology?
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