Pellizzoni Luigi
Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Trieste, Italy.
Public Underst Sci. 2017 Feb;26(2):212-219. doi: 10.1177/0963662516663563.
A common thread in the contributions to this special issue can be found in the Foucauldian notion of intensification. Technoscientific imaginaries and publics have long been embroiled; yet, elements of novelty in their relationship can be detected in the ambivalence of the overcoming of traditional purification work; the expanding production of 'prototypical' truths; the uncertain threshold between publics of enquirers, witnesses and lookouts; and the growing indistinction of the everyday and the sublime, of trivial and non-trivial futures. The intensification of old patterns and recent trends determines a critical moment in a literal sense of the word: novel potentialities for a democratic governance of technosciences are opening up, but novel dominative opportunities are disclosing as well.
在本期特刊的诸多稿件中，一个共同的主题可以在福柯的强化概念中找到。技术科学想象与公众长期以来一直纠缠在一起；然而，在克服传统净化工作的矛盾心理、“原型”真理的不断扩大的生产、探究者、见证者和瞭望者群体之间不确定的界限，以及日常与崇高、平凡与非凡未来之间日益模糊的区分中，可以察觉到它们关系中的新颖元素。旧有模式和近期趋势的强化在字面意义上决定了一个关键时刻：技术科学民主治理的新潜力正在开启，但新的支配性机会也在显现。
