ESHS Talks, com Maurizio Esposito
[Online]
21 March 2023 · 18h00
As talks da European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) sob o tema Confluences: reflections on the inter-relations between disciplines terão a participação de Maurizio Esposito, que apresenta "Three Marxist Lessons for the 21st century HPS: A Critical Revision". O event decorre através da plataforma Zoom e cada palestrta é emitida no canal de YouTube da ESHS. Decorre pelas 18h (19 CET).
Resumo (em inglês)
What can we learn from 20th-century Marxist HPS? Is there any helpful insight we should reconsider today? In this talk, I argue that we might reexamine at least three lessons. The first is how Marxist HPS scholars conceptualized the relationship between “practice” and “theory.” This was a central concern for many of them and hinged on different political and normative assumptions (whether they conceived science as a liberating or alienating enterprise). The second is how they connected technology and science, and, more specifically, artefacts and cogitation. And third, the idea that “modern science” cannot be easily severed from the capitalist mode of production, which expanded globally and generated distinct sorts of polarisations and dichotomies (i.e., modern/traditional; centre/periphery; civilized/primitive, etc.). Altogether, I claim that these lessons outline a rich and partly consistent perspective addressing the socioeconomic nature of scientific knowledge that might still be intriguingly (or disturbingly) relevant.