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Testing Knowledge
Full text link"This volume presents the collective adventure of Dingdingdong, the Institute for the Co-production of Knowledge about Huntington’s Disease, founded in 2012 between Paris and Brussels.
Katrin Solhdju’s Testing Knowledge: Toward an Ecology of Diagnosis pursues the question of taming the violence of the new species of medical foreknowledge represented by genetic testing. Adopting historical and epistemological perspectives on diagnostic situations, including observations from anthropological field research, speculative storytelling, and ancient oracles, Testing Knowledge proposes a new ecology of predictive diagnostic gestures, which potentially concern us all.
Testing Knowledge is preceded by the Dingdingdong collective’s Manifesto (2013), which tells the story of the young Alice Rivières, who in 2006 took the presymptomatic, genetic test, foretelling her that she will eventually develop Huntington’s. Her first-person account of the revelation of her test results, which she experienced as an act of poisoning or cursing, pulls the reader into the manifold ethical, psychological, and existential issues inherent to medical predictions.
Testing Knowledge is also preceded by a foreword from Alice Wexler, author of Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research, and is followed by an afterword by philosopher Isabelle Stengers.
Das kleine Schwarze oder: Überleben in unsicheren Zeiten
No full textIm Jahr 1926 landete Coco Chanel ihre vielleicht folgenreichste Kreation. Nach den Verwüstungen und radikalen politischen Umwälzungen des Ersten Weltkrieges feierte man in den 'Roaring Twenties' emphatisch das eigene Überleben. Frauen kleideten sich beim Besuch von Variété-Theatern, Lichtspielen und Bars, lasziv Zigarettenspitzen haltend, jetzt bevorzugt in Schwarz - in Klein und Schwarz. Auch wenn Coco als geniale Erfinderin dieses Outfits gilt, wäre der Erfolg ihrer Innovation ohne die historisch-politischen Umstände vermutlich undenkbar geblieben
Testing Knowledge
Full text link"This volume presents the collective adventure of Dingdingdong, the Institute for the Co-production of Knowledge about Huntington’s Disease, founded in 2012 between Paris and Brussels.
Katrin Solhdju’s Testing Knowledge: Toward an Ecology of Diagnosis pursues the question of taming the violence of the new species of medical foreknowledge represented by genetic testing. Adopting historical and epistemological perspectives on diagnostic situations, including observations from anthropological field research, speculative storytelling, and ancient oracles, Testing Knowledge proposes a new ecology of predictive diagnostic gestures, which potentially concern us all.
Testing Knowledge is preceded by the Dingdingdong collective’s Manifesto (2013), which tells the story of the young Alice Rivières, who in 2006 took the presymptomatic, genetic test, foretelling her that she will eventually develop Huntington’s. Her first-person account of the revelation of her test results, which she experienced as an act of poisoning or cursing, pulls the reader into the manifold ethical, psychological, and existential issues inherent to medical predictions.
Testing Knowledge is also preceded by a foreword from Alice Wexler, author of Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research, and is followed by an afterword by philosopher Isabelle Stengers.
De la défaite de l'imagination, et de certains de ses effets
Full text linkeditorial reviewedUne nouvelle « économie morale de la science » prit forme au cours du XIXe siècle, instaurant l’idéal de la neutralité des savoirs scientifiques tel que nous le connaissons aujourd’hui. Cette économie trouve une de ses expressions, notamment, dans ce que Lorraine Daston a proposé de nommer la « mécanisation de l’objectivité ». Cet idéal de neutralité, sur lequel se fonde désormais les sciences, n’est pas animé par une simple méfiance envers l’imagination, mais véritablement par un dégout de celle-ci. Si au cours du XVIIe les sciences modernes mirent progressivement en opposition des concepts auparavant (et toujours étymologoquement) étroitement liés − tels que « fait », « artefact » et « fiction » −, l’imagination gardait alors néanmoins une place cruciale au sein de l’aventure scientifique. Mais cela devait changer radicalement à partir des années 1780. La défaite de l’imagination qui s’opère alors s’impose à travers un nouveau régime épistémologique largement basé sur la pensée et le vocabulaire kantien qui prit forme à la même époque
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