ABSTRACT
Three questions are at the core of this chapter. The first is: what is the difference between a theory that stresses the category of “contradiction” compared to a perspective centred on “ambivalence”? The second is: in which sense has the nexus between technoscience and politics been conceptualised in terms of ambivalence within current social theory? The third: is ambivalence the result of an active effort as well as a set of social practices in the field created by the nexus between technoscience and politics (technocratic politics)? Our thesis is that ambivalence can be seen as an assembly principle of technocratic politics, useful for avoiding systematic contradiction in a socio-political situation.
