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Teich's Tech Tidbit of the Week
September 2, 2002
9th Edition Authors: Ziauddin Sardar
Teich's Tech Tidbit of the Week
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| Ziauddin Sardar's essay in the new
edition of Technology and the Future (which is adapted from
book, Rescuing All Our Futures, pictured above) is a stinging critique
of futures studies. The future has been "colonized" by the West, Sardar
maintains, and our views of what is to come have been shaped by the image
of Western culture and civilization. The rest of the world, led by
Asia, must break out of this mold if it is going to help shape a future
that reflects a wider range of values.
A distinguished and prolific writer, cultural critic, and intellectual, Ziauddin Sardar is a leading contemporary thinker on science, technology and Islam. Among his more than 40 books are Thomas Kuhn and the Science Wars (2000), Postmodernism and the Other (1998), Orientalism (1999), and Introducing Muhammad (1994). He is editor of the journal Futures and a regular contributor to the British public affairs magazine, New Statesman. Sardar is currently visiting professor of postcolonial studies in the Department of Arts Policy and Management of the City University in London.
This is the fourth in a series of Tidbits of the Week devoted to the
authors whose works appear in the just-published
9th edition of Technology and the Future. Last
week's Tidbit profiled Tom Murray. Future Tidbits will profile such
other writers on technology as Amory and Hunter Lovins, John Seely Brown,
Robert Pool, and President George W. Bush (!).
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Order Rescuing All Our Futures: The Future of Futures Studies, edited by Ziauddin Sardar (Praeger Publishers, 1999) from Amazon.com (paperback, $24.95). Biography of Ziauddin Sardar on the Ian Ramsey Centre site. (The Ian Ramsey Centre is part of the Theology Faculty in the University of Oxford (U.K.). Its aim is the promotion of high quality teaching and research in the field of science and religion.) Articles and essays by Ziauddin Sardar on the events of September 11:
Review of Ziauddin Sardar and Jerome R. Ravetz, eds., Cyberfutures: Culture and Politics on the Information Superhighway (New York University Press, 1996), by David Silver (Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, Washington University). Review of Sardar's Orientalism (Open University Press, 1999) by Joanne McEwan on Islam Online.net. "Science - Ziauddin Sardar finds the lone scientist a force to be reckoned with," Ziauddin Sardar's column in New Statesman (May 1, 2000). "Science Allah Carte," by Lewis Jones (Skeptical Briefs Newsletter, March 2002). Comment on Sardar's thoughts on Islamic science.
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