Cui prodest Michel Foucault? (Italian original version)
Do we have to drag in the thought of Michel Foucault to show the political (and not neutral), partial and local (and not universal and non-historic), active (and not merely transmissive) face of science communication? Do we need the work of the controversial French intellectual to dispute the anxiou...
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| description | Do we have to drag in the thought of Michel Foucault to show the political (and not neutral), partial and local (and not universal and non-historic), active (and not merely transmissive) face of science communication? Do we need the work of the controversial French intellectual to dispute the anxious search – almost a quest like that for the Holy Grail – for the “best practices” in the dissemination of scientific culture? If we read over the pages that Foucault dedicated to words and things, to the archaeology and genealogy of knowledge, to biopolitics, we have few doubts. Two elements, on the one hand the central nature of discourse and “regimes of truth”, on the other the concept of biopower (a “power over bodies”), enable us to reflect both on the important specific features of modern science in comparison with other forms of production and organisation of knowledge, and on the central role of its communication. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d8f9dd2363054110a01bec0bbc64a5ff2022-12-22T01:33:19ZengSissa MedialabJCOM: Journal of Science Communication1824-20492006-03-0151Cui prodest Michel Foucault? (Italian original version)Yurij CastelfranchiNico PitrelliDo we have to drag in the thought of Michel Foucault to show the political (and not neutral), partial and local (and not universal and non-historic), active (and not merely transmissive) face of science communication? Do we need the work of the controversial French intellectual to dispute the anxious search – almost a quest like that for the Holy Grail – for the “best practices” in the dissemination of scientific culture? If we read over the pages that Foucault dedicated to words and things, to the archaeology and genealogy of knowledge, to biopolitics, we have few doubts. Two elements, on the one hand the central nature of discourse and “regimes of truth”, on the other the concept of biopower (a “power over bodies”), enable us to reflect both on the important specific features of modern science in comparison with other forms of production and organisation of knowledge, and on the central role of its communication.http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050101/jcom0501%282006%29C01_it.pdfDemocracy and science communication |
| spellingShingle | Yurij Castelfranchi Nico Pitrelli Cui prodest Michel Foucault? (Italian original version) JCOM: Journal of Science Communication Democracy and science communication |
| title | Cui prodest Michel Foucault? (Italian original version) |
| title_full | Cui prodest Michel Foucault? (Italian original version) |
| title_fullStr | Cui prodest Michel Foucault? (Italian original version) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cui prodest Michel Foucault? (Italian original version) |
| title_short | Cui prodest Michel Foucault? (Italian original version) |
| title_sort | cui prodest michel foucault italian original version |
| topic | Democracy and science communication |
| url | http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050101/jcom0501%282006%29C01_it.pdf |
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