Author: PGR
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the conditions of credibility
Steven Shapin, with the — OK, with an STS perspective on “post-truth” at LARB: The problem we confront is better described not as too little science in public culture but as too much. Given the absurdities and errors abroad in the land, it may seem crazy to say this, yet the point can be pressed.…
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03DEC19 / accessions
Debord’s favourite.
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01DEC2019
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nudge / hold / spin
Will Davies at the LRB, reviewing Justin E H Smith’s Irrationality: Away from the frontiers and mythology of Enlightenment, the meaning of ‘rationality’ (and hence ‘irrationality’) becomes difficult to pin down. You can resort to the otherworldly ideas of logic and mathematics floating free from all politics and culture. But the academic study of ‘rational…
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26NOV2019 / accessions
Rinsed by the Verso winter sale, once again. And I haven’t even started making a list for the Palgrave cyber-sale yet… I’m told that the first step is admitting you have a problem. Well, OK then, I have a problem: there aren’t enough days in a year.