Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 19:24:52 -0500
From: Ostrow/Kaneda <ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: responsible scholarship


>Does the critique of responsible scholarship (lenghthily threaded in the
>fascism discussion) apply to science as well?  Can reason not be damaging
>and should it therefor not be held accountable?  What about technology
>leading to the atomic bomb, chemistry leading to harmful drugs, etc?
>
>Should these be treated similarly as Heidegger et al.?
>
>jeffWithin the frame work of Modernist Ideologies knowledge was given
>priority over ethics -- each of these is measured just as fascism is by a
>social agenda that is premised upon an ideological imagining -- as with H
>intention must be measured against effect and agency -- as in the Woody
>Allen film Sleeper what if we were to awake and find that fascism actually
>does lead to a form of liberation in which we dominate our technologies
>rather than our technologies dominating us?