ABSTRACT

Regardless of how science’s reduced authority is explained, we are clearly experiencing a deep shift in the character and organization of knowledge production. In the phrasing of historian of science Pestre (2003), we are witnessing the birth of a new science regime: a distinctive reconfiguration of the relations among scientists and state, military, and economic elites. Pestre’s research demonstrates that the historical and geographic particularities of science regimes profoundly affect not just scientists’ conditions of production but also the content they produce and how that content circulates.