Alexander Stingl: 3 books
Worlds of ScienceCraft
New Horizons in Sociology, Philosophy, and Science Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy. Beginning with the historical foundations of civilization and progress, assumptions about the categories we use to talk about...
The Digital Coloniality of Power
Epistemic Disobedience in the Social Sciences and the Legitimacy of the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Trouble is afoot in Digital Culture and Nerdland. These are, Alexander I. Stingl claims, not the engine of freedom and democracy that they once were hailed to be – this much is already clear in the wake of the snooping and surveillance crises that broke in recent years. Digitalization is but another...
The Methodology of Political Economy
Studying the Global Rural–Urban Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality...