Pynchon knows this, I say. Sorta always known.

[Matthew Cissell]

Al,

Oh? And what is your experience of working in the world of science? You might drop the moniker and show us something quantifiable.

Disclosure: I worked on the Human Genome Project from 1999 to 2000 at the Washington University school of Medicine in St. Louis - check Nature V412, 565.

Science bashing plays into the hands of the right. Go hang with Latour or somebody like that.


mc otis


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From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, June 2, 2013 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: Pynchon knows this, I say. Sorta always known.



Science is the project of little men who are easily enslaved and who crave authority, though it is, at the same time, and necessarily so, rebellious. 




On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

Rev76> She knows better, I suspect
> 
>Hides it well.
> 
>From:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Rev'd Seventy-Six
>Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 2:52 PM
>To: Joseph S. Barrera III
>Cc: pynchon -l
>
>Subject: Re: Pynchon knows this, I say. Sorta always known.
> 
>Alice tends to anthropomorphize science as a megalithic, empiricist egoiost incapable of empathy.
>She also has a tendency to characterize science as being in intractable opposition to matters of the soul and/or numinous world.  A peculiarly western conceit.
>She knows better, I suspect.