Cultivating Calm Passions
Building on comments delivered at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Meeting in Honolulu recognizing Wild Experiment as the winner of the 2023 Ludwick Fleck Prize, my reflections here are anchored in the appreciation of the book’s illumination of the value of the cultivation of calm pass...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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Zygon
Année: 2024, Volume: 59, Numéro: 3, Pages: 800–10 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
the Erotic
B calm passions B durable knowledge B Racism |
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| Résumé: | Building on comments delivered at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Meeting in Honolulu recognizing Wild Experiment as the winner of the 2023 Ludwick Fleck Prize, my reflections here are anchored in the appreciation of the book’s illumination of the value of the cultivation of calm passions. I open by reflecting on book’s fresh engagement with core science and technology studies concerns about how durable knowledge is made. I then suggest a few developments that might follow on from that appreciation. First, I reflect on how the role of the erotic might be pushed further analytically. Second, I explore how the book’s persuasive arguments about racialized reason and the limitations of the paranoid style of critique might be treated more symmetrically, as elements to be aware of in our own work as well as that of big bad racists with whom we disagree. Finally, I highlight the potentially broader-audience value of grounding ourselves in calm passions in the era of the internet pile-on. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.16995/zygon.16691 |