objectivity

science studies

will to transparency

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

university professor

University of Cambridge

innovator in the field of

feminism

gender theory

Science and Technology Studies (STS)

STS scholar

medical anthropologist

anthropology

is based on a conflation between seeing and knowing.

As Haraway and many other feminist science studies scholars have argued, the privilege accorded the value of objectivity is based heavily on a conflation between seeing and knowing. Detached observation, accurate description, and value neutrality in the pursuit of understandign are the key components of the objectivist epistemology at the heart of modern science (Jordanova 1989... Stafford 19991, 1994 in Franklin 1996:142)

is not a field that sets out to show how science is false or iniquitous. Rather, it shows that science operates from particular perspectives, the denial of which ends up rendering invisible the political and moral consequences of its practices.

What is at stake in the politics of making transparencies is the politics of perspective. It is not that science assumes a perspective which is seen to be iniquitous or false by science studies scholars. It is instead the denial that such a perspective is a perspective which is seen to carry the most significant political and moral consequences, for it is this denial that attempts to render invisible and inaccessible to scrutiny or questioning exactly how that perspective works, what it includes and excludes, and how that inclusion or exclusion is itself a cultural effect' (Franklin 1996: 151)

is founded on the desire to remove things from their context. To know a thing in itself is the equivalent of radically decontextualizing it'.

The will to transparency is founded on the desire to remove things from their context. To know a thing in itself is the equivalent of radically decontextualizing it' (Franklin 1996:143).

is the desire in the sciences to remove things from their context.

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