Why trust science in a trickster world of absolute contingency? The speculative force of mathematical abstraction
This paper explores how new materialisms and a new climatic regime complicate the nature of science under post-truth conditions. My focus is on the limits of relationality, while pursuing a fruitful and promiscuous speculation. I venture into this topic by exploring the power of speculative fiction...
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This paper explores how new materialisms and a new climatic regime complicate the nature of science under post-truth conditions. My focus is on the limits of relationality, while pursuing a fruitful and promiscuous speculation. I venture into this topic by exploring the power of speculative fiction to help us imagine and re-craft a ‘science’ adequate to pluralistic posthuman ecologies.
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