Academic research, scientific knowledge, institutional claims, constructed technologies and theories are not neutral expressions of an objective truth.

neutrality / objectivity upholds dominant systems
post60s began critiques from feminist, indigenous, postcolonial scholars on academic authority
destabilising this force by expanding boundaries of the framework through public, activist and participatory forms
specific disciplines of study emerging from this (inside agents/be the change) as well as external resistance (can’t put it out from inside the house/the masters tools/the revolution will not be televised)

Instances

science is not neutral
earth/technology is not neutral
research is not neutral
data is not neutral, but people assume data is true

Resources

library/Technology is Not Neutral
todo

intersubjectivity

we all are ultimately one subject, have one perspective
the only reliable measures are intersubjective, combinatory of our fragments
peer review is most reliable form of data as it produces emergent, convergent knowledge

Mentions

“When we are with others, we are always something other than what we are when we are alone.” ⤴️ All Together Now Collective Knowledge, Collective Narratives, and Architectures of Participation
“In the phenomenological approach he describes in Being and Time, Heidegger distinguishes between Da-sein, being in the world, and Mitda-sein, the state of being-together-in-the-world” ⤴️
“In discussing how we arrive at consensus, Habermas writes of “linguistically generated intersubjectivity,” the use of language to create a subject that is not the self, but subjectivity shared with others” ⤴️ ^d8a97a
“Luhmann, in Social Systems, argues that people are not society, but parts of its environment” ⤴️
“whenever people are collaborating on a project of knowledge sharing or creative production, they are collaborating not only with other people, but with a system which they, the other participants, and the communicative environment help to create.” ⤴️
“In networked computer environments in particular, collaboration is always both collaboration with other people and with systems.” ⤴️

the real world is complex and messy

on encouragement to ‘distance’ from research
but you have to feel it
especially in social science
people are people
in context means with complexity
on how science is not neutral
data is uncertain - Uncertain Archives
science uses lab conditions because it removes extraneous variables
but in the world there are always so many variables