Beyond Woke by Michael Rectenwald

Author:Michael Rectenwald [Rectenwald, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New English Review Press
Published: 2020-05-18T04:00:00+00:00

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1 Originally published by CLG News. https://www.legitgov.org. July 20, 2017.

2 Lukács Georg. History and Class Consciousness Studies in Marxist Dialectics. MIT Press, 1971.

3 Harding, Sandra G. The Science Question in Feminism. Cornell University Press, 1993.

4 “Science Studies,” also known as “Science and Technology Studies” or “Science, Technology and Society” (STS) is a dialogue ranging across many academic disciplinary boundaries. It includes the History and Philosophy of Science (HPS), the Sociology of Science, the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK), and such cross-disciplinary fields as the cultural studies of science, feminist critiques of science, Marxist analysis of science, and anthropological studies of science, amongst others. The postmodern wing of Science Studies became implicated in the “Science Wars,” a controversy involving humanities and social science critics, who were badgered by such defenders of science as biologist Paul R. Gross, mathematician Norman Levitt, and physicists Jean Bricmont and Alan Sokal. The “Sokal Affair” or “Sokal Hoax” capped the controversy. When Sokal submitted a satirical article to the respected critical theory journal Social Text, the editors were duped and published it. The essay, entitled “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,” argued that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct. It was gratuitously littered with postmodern jargon and amounted to an obscurantism emblematic not only of postmodernist Science Studies essays and books, but of postmodernist theory in general.

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