Sunday, May 2, 2010

Wheres the money gone?

Focusing on the LHC and the Humanities and Sciences (H&S) posters, I found it very interesting that one, the LHC poster was direct evidence of the H&S poster, and two the focus on legitimation from both posters. The H&S poster directly showed how science, as it is, has become THE means to legitimize something, and therefore is getting ~all the money! whereas even the humanities have turned to science to legitimize themselves in some way (see neurosciences), and how this has tipped the scales in some ways, namely in term of opportunities (science has lots and growing, humanities has a few and shrinking). Most people would see this as a problem, that this is entirely understandable considering the subject division, even in the name of our class. But in all honesty, as Mr. Latour has said, the two are not separate. Long have the humanities trailed the science thanks to uncle Rene, but the "gridding" of the sciences also changed the humanities, regarless of how noticeable is has been. Paraphrasing a line from my favorite game Mass Effect 2 (which got some of its content from Gilbert and Sullivan, mind you) 'Art is a reflection of advances in society and technology.' As technology changes, so does art, and if science's paradigm shifts, you bet your ass that the humanities will feel it, and change along with it, as a system of progression forward (or backward if you like, its all relative).

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