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Nanotechnology and Risk Governance in the European Union: the Constitution of Safety in Highly Promoted and Contested Innovation Areas
(Springer, 2017-08-05)
[EN]The European Union (EU) is strategically committed to the development of nanotechnology and its industrial exploitation. However, nanotechnology also has the potential to disrupt human health and the environment. The ...
Can we ‘transform our world’ without affecting international power relations? A political analysis of the United Nations development agenda
(Routledge, 2018-05-16)
The Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals are the latest instalments of a development endeavour started by the United Nations (UN) after WWII. This article conducts a discourse analysis of the UN ...
Introduction: A Critical Eye on Critical Pragmatics
(Springer, 2023-05-18)
We journey into the realm of pragmatics when we ask how speakers manage to convey more than or go beyond what they literally say. In fact, such considerations paved the way to what we may now call “Classical Pragmatics”, ...
‘Minimal metabolism’: a key concept to investigate the origins and nature of biological systems
(2021)
The systems view on life and its emergence from complex chemistry has remarkably
increased the scientific attention onmetabolism in the last two decades.However, during
this time there has not been much theoretical ...
What’s in a name? On the latest attempts to revive an Æther
(Springer Nature, 2023)
The development and evolution of the “Einstein–Æther Theory” (Æ-theory) shows that there is a field in cosmology where the word ether is being used again. It is unclear, however, whether this æther may be regarded in ...