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| Disputed term/author/ism | Author |
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| Authorship | Flusser | Rötzer I 73 Authorship/Flusser: In the future, the author must be split, enter into an "Inner Dialogue" (Plato): a) collecting information, b) provoking and inventing sounds. >Discovery/Invention, >Information, >Knowledge, >Texts, >Literature, >Art, >Artists, >Fake. |
Fl I V. Flusser Kommunikologie Mannheim 1996 Rötz I F. Rötzer Kunst machen? München 1991 |
| Evidence | Latour | Sokal I 117 Evidence/knowledge/validity/Latour/Sokal: (B. Latour. "Ramsès II est-il mort de la tuberculose?". La Recherche 307 (March) pp. 84-85, see also NR 308 (April) errata p. 85 and no. 309 (May) p. 7). In 1976, following an investigation into the mummy of Ramses II. noted that his death (approximately 1213 BC) was due to tuberculosis. Latour asks:"How could he have died from a bacterium discovered by Robert Koch in 1882?" - Why is this not an anachronism? Existence/Discovery/Invention/History/Ontology/Latour/Sokal: then Latour moves to the assertion: "Before Koch the bacillus has no real existence." Discovery: the objection that Koch has only discovered something existing is dismissed as "only seemingly reasonable". SokalVsLatour: of course, in the rest of the article he does not bring forth any argument for his thesis. He fluctuates between extreme banalities and blatant errors. >Existence, >Existence statement, >Discoveries, >Reality, >World/thinking. |
Lat I Bruno Latour Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society Cambridge, MA 1988 Sokal I Alan Sokal Jean Bricmont Fashionabel Nonsense. Postmodern Intellectuals Abuse of Science, New York 1998 German Edition: Eleganter Unsinn. Wie die Denker der Postmoderne die Wissenschaften missbrauchen München 1999 Sokal II Alan Sokal Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science New York 1999 |
| Evidence | Sokal | I 117 Evidence/knowledge/validity/Latour/Sokal: E.g., B. Latour(1): In 1976, following an investigation into the mummy of Ramses II. french scientists noted that his death (approximately 1213 BC) was due to tuberculosis. Latour asks: "How could he have died from a bacterium discovered by Robert Koch in 1882?" - Why is this not an anachronism? Existence/Discovery/Invention/History/Ontology/Latour/Sokal: then Latour averts to the assertion: "In front of Koch the bacillus has no real existence." Discovery: the objection that Koch has only discovered something existing is dismissed as "only seemingly reasonable". >>Discovery/invention, >Reference, >Existence, >Ontology, >Theory change, >Meaning change. SokalVsLatour: of course, in the rest of the article he does not make any argument for his thesis. He fluctuates between extreme banalities and blatant errors. 1. B. Latour „Ramsès II est-il mort de la tuberculose?“. La Recherche 307 (March) S. 84-85, siehe auch NR 308 (April) errata S. 85 und Nr. 309 (Mai) S. 7. |
Sokal I Alan Sokal Jean Bricmont Fashionabel Nonsense. Postmodern Intellectuals Abuse of Science, New York 1998 German Edition: Eleganter Unsinn. Wie die Denker der Postmoderne die Wissenschaften missbrauchen München 1999 Sokal II Alan Sokal Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science New York 1999 |
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