technocosmopolitanism

is the idea that society must be constructed, planned, organized through art and science.

Compared with what Rabinow calls 'middling modernism' 'Techno-cosmopolitanism shares with other modern projects an understanding that society must be constructed, planned, and organized through art and science. It seeks this end through the use of already existing cultural, social, and aesthetic institutions and spaces seen to embody a healthy sediment of historical practices which need reorganization. Techno-cosmopoli tanism is the operationalization of history, society, and culture. It is technological in that the operations are scientifically arrived at and can be specified... it is cosmopolitan in that these technological operations themselves are applied to specific customs, cultures, countries. ' (Rabinow 1996: 59) . .. Rabinow: 'Anthropology of Reason' . . .

technocosmopolitanism, n.Definitions

technocosmopolitanism