I was entering academia in the 80s, but the failure of the post-modernists to get ahead of this inevitable outcome caused me to exit. I also support fully the need to question the hegemony of power and control, and in that to foment equality. But doing it by working to deconstruct (as it were) materiality --while ironically valorizing the very "centered subjectivity" that we identified as reactionary-- seemed to be honing a knife to hand right over to our opponents. And here we are.
As always, deep thoughts to contemplate from Mr. Brock. Clarity with THC is a concept understood well by many Americans. For me, advanced age has been a welcome substitute to the drawbacks. I certainly cannot condemn what works (within logical reason) for others, I can only reflect on what my past and present have taught me about where a logical reason of balance exists.
I shouldn't comment as I did not go back to read her paper; and I skimmed this. I am because you have become an almost daily read for me and I almost always find something extraordinary to bring into my understanding of the world from your well crafted pieces.
In this case, I would encourage you talk to her directly and perhaps have a conversation about your assumptions and her assumptions. That could result in something pretty awesome.
And just a note, misogyny and racism have greatly harmed all institutions including science, religion, government, business, finance.... by omission and commission. The vacuum of those missing voices is enormous; and perhaps could mean the edifice was never set right or has rotted altogether. Even women who were 'allowed' to participate to get us to the moon, for example, were treated like disposable minds who could type or something.
We think physics is absolutely about the measurable real world in ways that cannot be challenged, and yet...... we have had revolutions in physics and when you look at what came before, it was often the machinations of corruption, supremacy, and self indulgence that held onto an unsupportable array of conclusions, the getting rid of so we can move on being world shaking. Right now we need world preserving innovation; not world destroying weapons and space travel for billionaires. I can't guarantee that more women would have gotten us to a better place but it would have been a helluva more interesting conversation.
I was entering academia in the 80s, but the failure of the post-modernists to get ahead of this inevitable outcome caused me to exit. I also support fully the need to question the hegemony of power and control, and in that to foment equality. But doing it by working to deconstruct (as it were) materiality --while ironically valorizing the very "centered subjectivity" that we identified as reactionary-- seemed to be honing a knife to hand right over to our opponents. And here we are.
As always, deep thoughts to contemplate from Mr. Brock. Clarity with THC is a concept understood well by many Americans. For me, advanced age has been a welcome substitute to the drawbacks. I certainly cannot condemn what works (within logical reason) for others, I can only reflect on what my past and present have taught me about where a logical reason of balance exists.
I shouldn't comment as I did not go back to read her paper; and I skimmed this. I am because you have become an almost daily read for me and I almost always find something extraordinary to bring into my understanding of the world from your well crafted pieces.
In this case, I would encourage you talk to her directly and perhaps have a conversation about your assumptions and her assumptions. That could result in something pretty awesome.
And just a note, misogyny and racism have greatly harmed all institutions including science, religion, government, business, finance.... by omission and commission. The vacuum of those missing voices is enormous; and perhaps could mean the edifice was never set right or has rotted altogether. Even women who were 'allowed' to participate to get us to the moon, for example, were treated like disposable minds who could type or something.
We think physics is absolutely about the measurable real world in ways that cannot be challenged, and yet...... we have had revolutions in physics and when you look at what came before, it was often the machinations of corruption, supremacy, and self indulgence that held onto an unsupportable array of conclusions, the getting rid of so we can move on being world shaking. Right now we need world preserving innovation; not world destroying weapons and space travel for billionaires. I can't guarantee that more women would have gotten us to a better place but it would have been a helluva more interesting conversation.