Weaver Chaptor 4

Cultural Studies of Technoscience

• Since people speak for the facts of nature, the speakers codes, values, and beliefs influence the speaker
• Thomas Kuhn-science is not the accumulation of facts and progression toward the truth, but more like a competition between theories that are unmeasurable against each other. 
• There is a cycle to determine which theory dominates. 
• normal science, accepted paradgim
• Anomolies occur, small numbers of them at first, can be dismissed, but at some point they become too powerful and a crisis emerges
• Crisis, ex. discovered the earth is not the center of the galaxy, crisis leads to the 
• adoption of a new theory. 
• paulfeyebend, against method, if the world were solely dependent onthe scientific method to adcance knowledge we would still be in the stone age. science does not follow a path of careful deliberation and experimentation, considering all possible explanations. 
• Science advanced bc of expediency, accidents, intuition and hunches. 
• Ketherin Hales, cosmic web, within the realm of intellectual istory there are core ideas, that capture the attention of scholars during the same time period, but these scholars are not familiar with each others work. 
• interested recently on the impact of the digital age on literature. is literary quality possible in digital medai or is electronic literature demonstrably inferior ot the pritn cannon, she asked
• interdisciplinary dimenstin of cultural studies, seen in two ways
• attempt to end the antagonism of the two cultures. humanist vs Scientists
• humanist claim scientist is to practical and technica
• scientist claim the humanist are elitist and dogmatic
• paulson suggests a third culture to bridge the two, and it is working
• literature departments at universities are in decline and are looking for new areas to explore.