From: L-Soft list server at St. John's University (1.8c) To: Ian Pitchford Subject: File: "SCI-CULT LOG9711" Date: Saturday, September 26, 1998 11:26 PM ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 19:02:51 +0000 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Good Book Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am reading a book which I can heartily recommend to the forum. It is _Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor_ (Boston: Little, Brown, 1996), puiblished in Britain as _Slow Reckoning: The Ecology of a Divided Planet_ (London: Secker & Warburg, 1996). The author is Tom Athanasiou, a remarkable, articulate and polymathic Californian whose day job is. believe it or not, writing manuals for Sun Microsystems. He came though here the other day, and I found his ideas compelling. I am not a specialist in these matters, so I am all the more grateful for this overview of the deep issues in environmental politics from a person who has been in the movement for decades and knows many of the official gurus yet is without deference. A prevasive theme, with which I agree, is that there is no technicist solution to these issues, nor is there any guarantee that we will not sink under the accumulated problems and failure to address them deeply or soon enough, but whatever we do, the only lasting hope of answers is political: to address inequality. The book is packed with information and annotations (60 pp of them). They do not weigh down the text, but they do lend to it the authority of sustained research. I find his prose style very appealing and witty. Mike Rosette, co-founder of Earth First, calls it 'one of the most important books of this decade'. I admit thais comes from the book's cover, but the following is from the issue of _Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology_ which arrived yesterday (vol. 8, no. 3). In a sustained essay on 'A Social Ecology', John Clark writes, 'To date the best general assessment of globalization and corporate power from a social ecological perspective is Athanasiou's _Divided Planet_' (p. 31). Has anyone else on the forum read it, and, if so, what do you think? Anyone keen to offer a review essay of it for the web site and the print version of _Science as Culture_? I have a review copy which I could send. Bob Young __________________________________________ In making a personal reply, please put in Subject line: Message for Bob Young Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk or r.m.young@sheffield.ac.uk, 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 18:26:53 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Walter Derzko Subject: Social Impacts of Technology X-To: sci-cult@SJUVM.stjohns.edu X-cc: List Learning Org , List Complexity and Management MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What methods or questions are you using/asking yourself to anticipate the social impacts of a new invention, technology or any human artifact ? Is there a basic core list? I use five questions: 1)What does a technology enhance ? (could be positive or negative, i.e. power, control, freedom of selection of options, reciprocity etc) 2)What does a technology obsolesce? (usually the old technology or the old way of doing things, N.B. I don't meam eliminate) 3)What does a technology retrieve ? (could be something that was lost or obsolesced in an older generation of a predecessor technology or artifact) 4)What does a technology flip or reverse into at the extreme (imagine what happens if and when everyone is using it) 5) Does the technology /artifact promote or inhibit experiential and reflective thinking ? What other questions could you ask ? Walter Derzko Director Idea Lab Toronto (416) 588-1122 wderzko@pathcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 19:00:25 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Bernd Frohmann Subject: Re: Social Impacts of Technology MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Since the source of the questions below was unattributed, I thought I'd point out that they come from McLuhan. We used to do exercises with them in his graduate class on Media & Society, in the 70s. McLuhan applied them to all sorts of things, not just technologies; you can ask these questions of Cartesian pilosophy or of a toothbrush. And we did, in his class. -- Bernd Frohmann, Associate Professor Faculty of Communications and Open Learning University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6G 1H1 voice: (519) 661-3542 | fax: (519) 661-3506 -- Walter Derzko wrote: > > What methods or questions are you using/asking yourself to anticipate the > social impacts of a new invention, technology or any human artifact ? Is > there a basic core list? > > I use five questions: > > 1)What does a technology enhance ? > (could be positive or negative, i.e. power, control, freedom of selection of > options, reciprocity etc) > > 2)What does a technology obsolesce? > (usually the old technology or the old way of doing things, N.B. I don't > meam eliminate) > > 3)What does a technology retrieve ? > (could be something that was lost or obsolesced in an older generation of a > predecessor technology or artifact) > > 4)What does a technology flip or reverse into at the extreme > (imagine what happens if and when everyone is using it) > > 5) Does the technology /artifact promote or inhibit experiential and > reflective thinking ? > > What other questions could you ask ? > > Walter Derzko > Director Idea Lab > Toronto > (416) 588-1122 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 21:16:21 -0600 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Martin Badke Subject: Re: Social Impacts of Technology In-Reply-To: <199711012339.QAA17481@portal.connect.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello Walter et al. I can not disagree with any of the questions, but they also miss the mark on who is asking and thinking of the answers. And to be clear, answers in this case are really only the implications of asking the questions and perhaps nothing more definitive. Is there a method to get more people thinking of the components of your questions? How do we get scientific and cultural literacy into the schools and undergraduate programs? Are these questions addressed only in the industrailized North? Only by the rich intelligencia? I am also thinking of adding one question: Does a technology affect many people and many different kinds of people? I read of a 'revolution in medical imaging'; when resoution jumped by 50% at one point. To the practitioners, this was radical. It impact on people was a bit smaller ... and it would seem from talking to people, nobody beyond the users knew of it. On the other hand, the rise of the internet has embedded into global culture more than its actual usage. I spoke with a researcher in bioloby from India who wanted to get net access. She knew of it, but it was not there for her yet. If somebody wants to hash the other questions, perhaps chew on this too. I have been lurking for a bit and find this list more a bulletin board than a discussion group. And so be it, but maybe it can be a bit more of the later and be of more value to me. Take care, Martin >What methods or questions are you using/asking yourself to anticipate the >social impacts of a new invention, technology or any human artifact ? Is >there a basic core list? > >I use five questions: > >1)What does a technology enhance ? >(could be positive or negative, i.e. power, control, freedom of selection of >options, reciprocity etc) > >2)What does a technology obsolesce? >(usually the old technology or the old way of doing things, N.B. I don't >meam eliminate) > >3)What does a technology retrieve ? >(could be something that was lost or obsolesced in an older generation of a >predecessor technology or artifact) > >4)What does a technology flip or reverse into at the extreme >(imagine what happens if and when everyone is using it) > >5) Does the technology /artifact promote or inhibit experiential and >reflective thinking ? > >What other questions could you ask ? > >Walter Derzko >Director Idea Lab >Toronto >(416) 588-1122 >wderzko@pathcom.com ============================================================ Martin H. Badke, Chief Judge, ERSF '98 and CWSF '99 Suite 204, 10508 - 119 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5H 4M1 Phone (403) 452-0284 -- Fax (403) 451-7756 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Edmonton Regional Science Fair -- March 21 and 22, 1998 http://www.connect.ab.ca/~xdr/ersfc/sf_index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Edmonton ... Host to the 1999 Canada Wide Science Fair Challenge the Future! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 13:39:16 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Valdusek@AOL.COM Subject: Re: SCIENCE-AS-CULTURE Digest - 28 Sep 1997 to 30 Sep 1997 In a message dated 97-10-01 05:05:01 EDT, you write: > > Where are > > the scientists who can see the kernel of truth in some of the science > studies > > criticisms? I had replied with some philosophy of science references. Since then a colleague made me aware of articles by Sylvain Schweber (author of an early major text on quantum field theory and of a recent book on the makers of QED) and by David Mermin in Physics Today. Schweber's was last spring and Mermin's this October. Schweber defends the anti-reductionist interpretation of effective field theory and the renormalization group and also discusses the change in the status of physicists in American universities. Mermin, surprisingly, defends Bruno Latour's article on relativity which has been a prime poster-boy of Science Wars criticism, notes that some cases in special relativity require three three observors. (Of course that's different from Latour's apparent actual point that all cases in SR require three observors, although he seems to mean by the third observor the theorist thinking about the two observor situtuation even if s/he is one of the observors. Val Dusek ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 15:22:34 +0000 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: World List of Universities X-To: psa-public-sphere@sheffield.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" World List of Universities with html links to 3000 of them http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ-full.html __________________________________________ In making a personal reply, please put in Subject line: Message for Bob Young Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk or r.m.young@sheffield.ac.uk, 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:01:51 +0000 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Diana Jeater Subject: CFP:Science & Society in Southern Africa X-To: h-africa@h-net.msu.edu, h-nexa@h-net.msu.edu, h-SAfrica@h-net.msu.edu, nuafrica@listserv.acns.nwu.edu, h0208daj@rz.hu-berlin.de, sci-cult@SJUVM.stjohns.edu, A-EASTON@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, A-SALTER@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, B-GREENSLADE@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, B-HIGHMORE@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, C-PHILIPPIDIS@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, CC-BUTLER@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, CM-EDDISON@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, D-HARKER@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, F-BURNET@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, F-MELLOR@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, H-ROTHMAN@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, I-GRANT@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, J-GRIMSHAW@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, J-WINTRIP@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, KA-LING@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, L2-FISHER@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, M-DRESSER@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, M-JOHNSTON@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, M-LISTER@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, M-MULVEYROBERTS@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, N-LINDAHL@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, NJ-WILLEY@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, P-BROKS@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, PR-HOLLAND@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, R-GRIFFIN@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, S-SWAIN@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, T-COULSTING@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, T-GRENFELLWILLIAMS@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, T2-WILLIAMSON@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, T5-JOHNSON@wpg.uwe.ac.uk, Z-MURDEN@wpg.uwe.ac.uk SCIENCE AND SOCIETY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Conference to be held at the University of Sussex, UK September 1998. CALL FOR PAPERS Much recent research into the dominant ideologies of the southern African region shows how policies have drawn on scientific ideas and institutions. To mention only a few examples: medical professionals and ideas about disease have been explored in the making of urban segregation; psychology and anthropology have been investigated in relation to ideas about race and intelligence; botany and the natural sciences in the emergence of conservationist policies and the sphere of rural planning and rehabilitation. What are the attractions of scientific discourse for policy makers? How have scientists conceived of their role as professionals and public figures? How can one understand the relationship between science, conceived of as the embodiment of universal and rational knowledge, and its articulation and resonance in particular historical contexts? We propose to examine the deployment of scientific discourse in the formation and contestation of dominant ideologies and policies in the subcontinent. Issues of particular concern include: * the role of science in the making of national identities; * the professionalisation of scientific enquiry; * the place of scientific ideas in political and literary discourse; * conflicts between metropolitan scientific ideas and local knowledge; * the notion of the `moving metropolis' and the emergence of distinctive southern African approaches; * the generation and dissemination of scientific ideas. It is hoped that the conference will thereby bring clearer focus and coherence to debates about the relationship between the development of science and modernity in the region as well as the complex influence of scientific ideas in the context of socially and racially divided colonial societies. We envisage that the conference will be held at the University of Sussex in September 1998. Brief paper proposals (of about 150 words) are invited by the conference organisers: Saul Dubow and Diana Jeater. Please send these by JANUARY 30 1998. It is anticipated that the conference will be restricted to paper-givers only and that publication of a selection of papers will follow soon after. Saul Dubow School of African and Asian Studies University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9RH, UK + 44 (0) 1273 606755 (phone) + 44 (0) 1273 623572 (fax) s.dubow@sussex.ac.uk (email) Diana Jeater School of History University of the West of England St Matthias Campus Bristol BS16 2JP, UK + 44 (0) 117 965 5384 x4384(phone) + 44 (0) 117 975 0402 (fax) d-jeater@uwe.ac.uk (email) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 21:58:58 -0800 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Nicholas Guest Subject: Re: World List of Universities In-Reply-To: <199711031529.HAA02806@clark.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Heavy,........ Nick ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 18:04:21 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Axel Thiel Subject: graffiti-research URL the NEW URL of int.work-group on graffiti-research(periodical-list)now at: http://users.aol.com/archive1 Axel Thiel(coordination) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 12:45:28 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Axel Thiel Subject: graffiti-research URL Publications list of int.work-group on graffiti-research(periodical)at http://users.aol.com/archive1 Axel Thiel(coordination) Germany ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 10:06:08 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Brigitte Gemme Organization: http://www.mlink.net/~gemme Subject: Pont etudiant STS Students Bridge X-To: STSCAN-L@YORKU.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit (ENGLISH will follow) AVIS IMPORTANT Les etudiants des divers programmes STS (Science, technologie et société) brisent leur isolement et creent le Pont etudiant STS. Visant à créer une plate-forme de communication entre les etudiants des divers programmes STS d'Amerique du Nord et des autres continents, le Pont nous permettra d'approfondir et d'elargir notre base de reflexion en STS en echangeant entre nous, notamment au sujet de nos recherches personnelles mais aussi sur l'actualite scientifique et technologique. De plus, le Pont permettra eventuellement d'accroitre la mobilite des etudiants de ces programmes a travers les diverses universites, de propager les initiatives judicieuses et de mieux faire connaitre ce champ d'etude, en plus d'offrir un certain nombre de ressources academiques et sociales aux etudiants en STS. Un site temporaire a ete monte a l'adresse suivante: http://www.mlink.net/~gemme/sts/bridge/ afin de presenter les grandes lignes du projet de Pont etudiant STS. Nous vous prions de faire suivre ce message a tout etudiant en STS, ou aux organismes potentiellement concernes, et de les inviter a communiquer avec nous afin de participer au lancement du projet! Brigitte Gemme Etudiante STS - UQAM gemme@mlink.net __________ STS (Science, Technology & Society and Science & Technology Studies) from the world will no longer be isolated: the STS Student Bridge has been created! The goals of the Bridge is to create a communication platform for the students of the various STS programs in America, Europe and around the world so to allow them to discuss and debate over STS issues and enhance their reflections about science and technology. On the long run, we also hope to increase STS students mobility and STS programs visibility. A temporary web site has been built at http://www.mlink.net/~gemme/sts/bridge/ to introduce the project to potential partners. Please forward this message to STS students you know, or to other concerned associations and units, so they too can participate to the launching of this project! Brigitte Gemme STS Student - UQAM gemme@mlink.net -- STS Student Bridge: http://www.mlink.net/~gemme/sts/bridge/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 16:53:27 -0500 Reply-To: Norman Levitt Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Norman Levitt Subject: A House Built On Sand MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A House Built on Sand: What's Wrong with the Cultural Studies Account of Science Edited by NORETTA KOERTGE, Indiana University A HOUSE BUILT ON SAND gathers a distinguished group of historians, philosophers, and scientists to scrutinize postmodernist attacks on the aims and methods of science. 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[snip] ================== I would also recommend the new book by Professor Christopher Norris to those interested in this theme: Norris, C (1997) Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction and Critical Theory. Oxford, Blackwell. Regards Ian ******************************************************************************** Ian Pitchford B.Sc (Hons), MA - Email Ian.Pitchford@scientist.com Ph.D. Student in Theoretical Psychopathology Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies University of Sheffield, 16 Claremont Crescent SHEFFIELD, S10 2TA, United Kingdom. Tel: 0114 222 2961 Fax: 0114 270 0619 ******************************************************************************** Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Online Dictionary of Mental Health http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/psychotherapy/index.html Mental Health Metasearch http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/psychotherapy/metasearch.html InterPsych: Mental Health Debate on the Internet http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/InterPsych/inter.html Burying Freud - The WWW Site http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gpp/burying_freud.html Treatment Electronic Journal http://journals.apa.org/treatment/ ******************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:57:49 +0000 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: conference announcement: Evolution of Human Cognition X-To: psa-public-sphere@sheffield.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Evolving the human mind An international interdisciplinary conference on the evolution of human cognition University of Sheffield 2 pm Wednesday 24 June 1998 2 pm Saturday 27 June 1998 sponsored by The Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN Participants will include: Simon Baron-Cohen (Psychology, Cambridge) Derek Bickerton (Linguistics, Hawaii) George Botterill (Philosophy, Sheffield) Richard Byrne (Psychology, St Andrews) Pascal Boyer (Anthropology, Lyon) Peter Carruthers (Philosophy, Sheffield) Andrew Chamberlain (Archaeology, Sheffield) Patty Cowell (Communication Sci., Sheffield) Fiona Cowie (Philosophy, Caltech) Robin Dunbar (Psychology, Liverpool) James Hurford (Linguistics, Edinburgh) Alan Leslie (Psychology, Rutgers) John Locke (Communication Sci., Sheffield) Andrew Mayes (Neurology, Sheffield) Bill McGrew (Anthropology, Miami Ohio) Steven Mithen (Archaeology, Reading) Adam Morton (Philosophy, Bristol) Gloria Origgi (Philosophy, Milan) David Papineau (Philosophy, KCL) Kate Robson Brown (Archaeology, Bristol) Peter K Smith (Psychology, Goldsmith s) Dan Sperber (Anthropology, CREA Paris) Stephen Stich (Philosophy, Rutgers) Thomas Wynn (Anthropology, Colorado) There will be opportunities for poster presentations; abstracts to be e-mailed to the address below. There will be opportunities for postgraduate presentations at the end of the conference, with subsidy. Draft papers (3-6,000 words) should be submitted by 1 April 1998. For details contact the e-mail address below. Full programme and costs will be available in April 1998. To be placed on the e-mail information list for this conference please e-mail: p.carruthers@sheffield.ac.uk __________________________________________ In making a personal reply, please put in Subject line: Message for Bob Young Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk or r.m.young@sheffield.ac.uk, 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:56:33 +0000 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: job at UEL Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Department of Innovation Studies, University of East London Lecturer in Technology, Media and Social Change Salary range: 15,914 to 18,230 pa inclusive (2 year fixed term appointment) Applicants should have a post graduate qualification, be able to address social scientific debates about technological change and be willing to contribute to the development of the department's research culture. Informal enquiries may be made to Sally Wyatt (0181 849 3675 or email s.m.e.wyatt@uel.ac.uk) For further details and an application form please contact Personnel Services, University of East London, Romford Road, London E15 4LZ. Tel: 0181 590 7722 ext 4321 (answerphone) or email recruitment@uel.ac.uk. Please quote reference number 44A97 Closing date for completed applications is 5th December 1997 __________________________________________ In making a personal reply, please put in Subject line: Message for Bob Young Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk or r.m.young@sheffield.ac.uk, 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 16:33:29 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Axel Thiel Subject: Vienna Graffiti-Congress(1997) int.work-group on graffiti-research Short report: Roland GRITLER(Austria)reported on influences of(folklore)"Gaunerzinken"(hobos`s marks)in their relations to graffiti.Bernhard HEINZLMEIER (Austria)about problems defining today what a sub-culture mey be today,Axel Thiel(Germany)on the"self-help"aspect of fanzines to secure pictures on writers,Beat SUTER(Switzerland)on the problems that turn up IF pictures are being taken and installed in internet,Hermann STEINIGER(Austria)on the general use of certain signs and symbols in local folklore-traditions,Peter GORSEN(Austria)on the role of graffiti within the arts,Helmut SEETHALER(a poet,Austria)that is applying his art in public spaces and has been persecuted almost 1000 times by police(respect for his ability to resist),Susanne SCHAEFER-WIERY(Austria)on where in arts(painting etc.) can be graffiti found(meta-reflection),Bady MINCK(Austria)a female(extraordinary)writer telling parts of her life story.Peter VITOUCH(Austria)how to evaluate graffiti for useful material,Thomas BAUMGAeRTEL(The Cologne"Banana-Sprayer")about his(extraordinary)projects,Irmela Adusei POKU(Germany)a brave woman from Berlin cleaning walls off Nazi-symbols(was awarded Germany`s"Bundesverdiensmedallie"),Angelika OVERBECK(Autstria)how art-therapy may help in relation to graffiti,Vienna sprayers decorating canvas,video documentations(Graffiti-Verite"(USA)and"Tod eines Sprayers" (Germany)public discussion.Results will be published. Axel Thiel ARCHIVE1@aol.com http://users.aol.com/archive1 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 23:36:44 -0800 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: "Michael Gregory, NEXA/H-NEXA" Subject: Vienna Graffiti-Congress(1997) (Sci-Cult) X-To: Axel Thiel X-cc: H-NEXA@h-net.msu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" Dear Professor Thiel: In connection with the discussion of "Gaunerzinken" signal-graffiti among hobos, one should be aware of Jack London's remarkable account of his own experiences in his book, ~On the Road~. London gives a full explanation of the chalk-mark symbols hobos left on lampposts, telephone poles or garden gates, indicating what work might be expected in return for food and/or clothing. It is a simple but rich kind of practical iconography. I do not know if it is still practiced by what used to be called "The Knights of the Road." We wish your conference success, and hope to be reminded on Proceedings. Michael Gregory Editor,H-NEXA < >Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 16:33:29 -0500 >Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture > < >Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture > < >From: Axel Thiel < >Subject: Vienna Graffiti-Congress(1997) >To: SCIENCE-AS-CULTURE@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU > >int.work-group on graffiti-research >Short report: >Roland GRITLER(Austria)reported on influences >of(folklore)"Gaunerzinken"(hobos`s marks)in their relations to >graffiti.Bernhard HEINZLMEIER (Austria)about problems defining today what a >sub-culture mey be today,Axel Thiel(Germany)on the"self-help"aspect of >fanzines to secure pictures on writers,Beat SUTER(Switzerland)on the problems >that turn up IF pictures are being taken and installed in internet,Hermann >STEINIGER(Austria)on the general use of certain signs and symbols in local >folklore-traditions,Peter GORSEN(Austria)on the role of graffiti within the >arts,Helmut SEETHALER(a poet,Austria)that is applying his art in public >spaces and has been persecuted almost 1000 times by police(respect for his >ability to resist),Susanne SCHAEFER-WIERY(Austria)on where in arts(painting >etc.) can be graffiti found(meta-reflection),Bady MINCK(Austria)a >female(extraordinary)writer telling parts of her life story.Peter >VITOUCH(Austria)how to evaluate graffiti for useful material,Thomas >BAUMGAeRTEL(The Cologne"Banana-Sprayer")about >his(extraordinary)projects,Irmela Adusei POKU(Germany)a brave woman from >Berlin cleaning walls off Nazi-symbols(was awarded >Germany`s"Bundesverdiensmedallie"),Angelika OVERBECK(Autstria)how art-therapy >may help in relation to graffiti,Vienna sprayers decorating canvas,video >documentations(Graffiti-Verite"(USA)and"Tod eines Sprayers" (Germany)public >discussion.Results will be published. >Axel Thiel >ARCHIVE1@aol.com >http://users.aol.com/archive1 > > Michael Gregory, Professor of English out,outDirector, NEXA Program Editor, H-NEXA (H-Net Forum Series) San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 (415)338-1302 < < ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 04:08:50 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Axel Thiel Subject: Graffiti-Congress/Vienna A reply to Michael Gregory): Thanks for your valuable help. Yes,Jack London is some unique and experienced source of informations and on level of litterature a multiplicator of informations on graffiti in general.One fo his stories(travelling along by train,also madea movie with e.Borgnine as the train guard(well done)showed how hobos write their challenges onto water-towers in their times. This also agrees with the cultural tradition reflected in Classical Chinese litterature(latecomers:wall newspapers)where hero(also female)is writing matters just onto a public walls with the appropriate results.Also of interest might be that during late middle age in Italy small states actively asked for public opinions put onto certain monuments(wall of freedom)totally forgotten aspects of our cultural heritage if you compare these finds wih today`s anti-graffiti URLs in internet with their"pseudo-religious"argumentation(??!!)that sums up in the nonsensical equation"graffiti=hate=crime"and the brainwashing "The difference between graffiti and art is permission".If that should be true most of art never would have been made possible.Art partially having aspects of psychological resistance.... yours Axel Thiel Germany ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:55:42 BST Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Jon Agar Subject: conference: history of scientific textbooks X-To: mersenne@mailbase.ac.uk, h-sci-med-tech@h-net.msu.edu, sts@cctr.umkc.edu Colloquium on Textbooks and British Society for History of Science (BSHS) Conference on history of Scientific Textbooks Saturday, 10 January 1998, Roger Stevens Building, Leeds University Speakers include: Ian Michael (Institute of Education) 'Textbooks as history: The work of the Colloquium' John Issitt (Open University) 'A tale of Two Encyclopedic Dictionaries: Transitions in the presentation of science' Jon Topham (Cambridge University) 'A textbook revolution: J. Deighton and Sons and the reform of Cambridge mathematics' Guided tour of the Leeds University museum of Education with curator Elizabeth Foster Clive Sutton (Leicester University) 'The ghost of John Tyndall (1820-93), as encountered today' Eugenia Rodan Vera (Cambridge University) 'Exporting Textbooks: Rudolph Ackermann's Latin American Enterprise' Michael Honeybone (Open University) 'The communication of science in England between the death of Isaac Newton and the time of Joseph Priestley' ------------------8<-------------------8<---------------------- Registration: stlg10 ____ or stlg5 (post-graduates and unwaged) ____ Name: ______________________________________________ Address:____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Cheques payable to 'BSHS Ltd' should be sent with name, address and institutional affiliation (if any) to BSHS Executive Secretary, 31 High Street, Stanford in the Vale, Faringdon, Oxon SN7 8LH. Email: bshs@hidex.demon.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 23:09:33 -0700 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Patrick OBrien Subject: Re: Vienna Graffiti-Congress(1997) In-Reply-To: <199711232133.VAA29854@mesa5.mesa.colorado.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Professor Thiel I'm sorry, but the rich and adventerous hobo is no longer a part of the American landscape. We have displaced people, who are lost in this new paradigm of information. When I was younger, around 20 years ago, I fancied an adventure. But I always felt like it was my choice. Maybe I thought that I was researching the Great American Novel. Anyway, to the best of my knowledge, the chalk on the old light pole was in the 30's Pat O'Brien ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 03:08:09 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Axel Thiel Subject: Hobos`signs A reply to P.O`Brien`s posting: I agree we,too in Germany,have lots of homeless and displaced persons and same may be true to Austria. The feeling of adventure also depends on time of the year...hope grows in summer and depression in winter. How at moment the situation among homeless persons concerning their specific communication may be I don`t know bt I try to keep my eyes open for any vusualized marks and if I come to talk with them even might ask....At all times we have secured informations by sub-cultures so I`m quite shure also they today must somehow communicate in a trans-personsl way just to secure their survival. J.London wrote some good informations on hobos`marks and due to 3.Reich and their treatment of"social problems"the"Gaunerzinken"became rare documents here. A.Thiel(coordination) int.work-group on graffiti-research http://users.aol.com/archive1 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 11:03:40 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Valdusek@AOL.COM Subject: Science Wars in Science Mag. The Nov. 26 Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A17 reports that a very negative review of Gross, Levitt and Lewis' "The Flight from Science and Reason" was published in May in "Science" magazine, "one of the most prestigious journals in America, and have contributed to its book-review editor leaving her job." Historian of quantum mechanics, Paul Forman wrote the review. Norman Levitt one of the authors, "organized a letter-writing campaign" and this was accompanied by "a Fulillade of phone calls" to Science magazine. In response to this the chief editor "chewed out" the book review editor and the journal's managing editor and sent the book review editor a "formal reprimand." Katherine Livingstone, the book editor, who had worked at science for 33 years, 23 yrs as book editor then took an "unplanned retirement." This event, along with the successful letter writing campaign to deny a position at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study by scientist science-warriors against Nathan Wise, who had dared to write a negative review of Gross and Levitt's "Higher Superstition" in the history of science journal ISIS, and even more shockingly, had dared to criticize Steve Weinberg's conclusions about the Sokal affair in the New York Review of Books, suggests that the science warriors' response to critical book reviews or letters is to deny employment to the writer or to the review editor, a highly democratic proceedure showing the support of Popperian criticism and the free market place of ideas among the scientist science-warriors, though perhaps they confuse the latter with the tactics of Stalin and Lysenko with whose views the scientist-warriors sometimes attempt to tar their postmodern opponents. Val Dusek