Michel Serres: Science, translation and the logic of the parasite

摘要: The work of Michel Serres has not found a great audience within Anglophone Social Science, despite his substantial influence on modern Science Studies. This article offers an introduction to thought. is global thinker who describes as 'structuralist'. notion translation way describing the communication and movements between different forms knowledge cultural practice central. philosophy science that in stark opposition Bachelardian tradition 'epistemic ruptures'. In order make break with 'breaks', account multiplicities are immersed noise. Structure, when it emerges, comes about acts parasitism. then explores how human relations obey 'parasite logic' which contains attendant risk sacrifice. managed through circulation 'quasiobjects'. Serres' later poses question what we can hope for this itself begins falter