#woolgar

[detournementsmineurs]

"Confident Royal" biopic de Stephen Frears - d'après le roman "Victoria & Abdul" de Shrabani Basu (2010) inspiré de la relation entre le Reine Victoria (1819-1901) et son serviteur indien Mohammed Abdul Karim (1863-1909) - avec Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Eddie Izzard, Tim Pigott-Smith, Paul Higgins, Olivia Williams, Fenella Woolgar et Adeel Akhtar, novembre 2017.

[tihilde]

Laboratory Life

I finally started reading Laboratory Life. I’ve been wanting to for years, but there were always more important things to read. Now I’ve decided that Latour is important (even if I will probably find someone to love more) and I cannot go on to do my fieldwork and thesis without reading this book.

The best thing so far is definitely the introduction by Jonas Salk. Seriously, that is some semi-weird shit. On the one hand he’s like “lol, yeah, you say science is a social construction but what do you know? You can never know us. And btw, qualitative science isn’t real science.” But on the other hand, he writes some quite nice things about social studies of science and their potential in the world. I feel like I want to quote him to “my” people in “my” lab. In fact, I might do just that.

[thriveonexistence-blog]

Thought: "Claim- that the actual phenomena known by science are themselves socially constructed in the same way that national identity or beautiful music are: it is only our conventional belief in their existence that makes them ontologically ‘real’." - Woolgar