Eric Deibel is a Lecturer of Science, Technology and Society at the engineering faculty of Bilkent University, Turkey, and is Assistant Professor at the political science faculty. He is a co-author of Recoding Life: Information and the Biopolitical.

Introduction

Rousseau's tragic conception of freedom

Freedom and method

Outline

Chapter 1. The Future of Freedom

The freedom-machine

Bits, genes, and (freedom-)machines

Linux as iconic for altruism

Selfishness

Chapter 2. Science and Society

Critique of progress

Hobbes and social constructivism

Rousseau, social constructivism and its extension to the social contract

Knowing nature

Rousseau as an immodest witness on education

Nature, science and colonialism

Conclusion

Chapter 3. Social Contracting and Freedom

Introduction

The method and the contract

Social contracting, in between Rousseau and STS

Let's not be modern / or the legacy of the general will

Equality and governing

Pacts and properties

Method and truth

Our own attempt at Enlightenment

Freedom machines and beyond

Freedom and security

Freedom and the natural world

Conclusion