Imaginary magnitude

Next semester, the Research policy institute will launch a new STS course. We had a meeting the other day. It’s going to be hard work developing the course, but stimulating as well. First there is a five week (or, rather, ten week long, since the course runs at half speed) general introduction to STS. We are thinking of having Krige & Pestre, Companion to science in the twentieth century as the main book, together with papers. The second part is a more case-based analysis of science, technology, research policy, industry, economics, popular culture (it all fits together!) centred on the case of space technology.