Tag: science

• Fragmentary, No. 25

  The moderns confused products with processes. They believed that the production of bureaucratic rationalization presupposed rational bureaucrats; that the production of universal science depended on universalist scientists; that the production of effective technologies led to the effectiveness of engineers; that the production of abstraction was itself abstract; that the production of formalism was itself formal.…

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  November 21, 2018

  Books, Fragments, Reading

  abstraction, Bruno Latour, essentailism, formalism, history of science, meaning, Modernity, philosophy, philosophy of science, rationality, science, tautology, theory, We Have Never Been Modern

• Fragmentary, No. 18

  And the triumph of empiricism is jeopardized by the surprising truth that our sense data are primarily symbols. ♦ Susanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key

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  May 10, 2018

  Fragments, Reading

  context, empiricism, quotes, science, Susanne K. Langer