The whale and the reactor : a search for limits in an age of high technology
/ Langdon Winner.
- 2nd ed.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020.
- xvi, 226 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index
Langdon Winner is the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. He has a blog and tweets liberally. First published in 1986, The Whale and the Reactor has been assigned for years. This edition includes a passionately argued new chapter entitled Beyond Techno-narcissism as well as a new Preface and a postscript describing the now planned decommissioning of the Diablo Canyon reactor in California.