Instructors: Robert Brain + Adam Frank
Section: 001
Term: 1
Meets: Mondays 2:00-5:00pm
Varieties of Scientific Experience
This proseminar introduces students to methods, core readings, and topics in Science and Technology Studies. This year we will primarily be concerned with questions of “experience” central to scientific experiment and observation, approaching these questions from a number of different perspectives. We will begin with material technologies and techniques, reading work by Shapin, Pickering, Latour, as well as more recent work in the field of media theory, and several short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. We will then move on to subjectivity and objectivity, thinking specifically about scientific ethos and the place of “spiritual exercises” and sciences of subjectivity (Freud, William James), reading work by Foucault and Hadot, Daston and Galison, Matthew Jones, and Gertrude Stein. Our final section will center on social spaces of science. Here and throughout the course, we will pay attention to figuration, narrative, and performativity in scientific and literary work.
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