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jesse_the_k) wrote2010-01-09 07:05 pm
jesse_the_k) wrote2010-01-09 07:05 pm
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High Culture Sometimes Worth The Climb
The What Sorts of People Should There Be? project considers "concerns around human variation, normalcy, and enhancement" with contributors from inside the lives of people who are often the objects of study. Contributors include philosophers, scientists, and community activists.
They host a blog at whatsorts.net, with several years of discussion. Many of the participants are tenured academics, pioneers in the creation of disability studies. The discourse level often is above my head, although some of the sentences do yield their meaning on fifth or sixth rereading.
Lazy me wonders "why bother?" but there are definitely pearls:
This discussion of how to label the two groups to be studied in cognition research neatly demonstrates how the idea of "objective science" is reinforced through language and exposed through contemplation. The researcher wants to find the right labels for "kids on the autistic spectrum" and "the others" in their project. Yet assigning the label scrawls all over the blank slate of research.
They host a blog at whatsorts.net, with several years of discussion. Many of the participants are tenured academics, pioneers in the creation of disability studies. The discourse level often is above my head, although some of the sentences do yield their meaning on fifth or sixth rereading.
Lazy me wonders "why bother?" but there are definitely pearls:
This discussion of how to label the two groups to be studied in cognition research neatly demonstrates how the idea of "objective science" is reinforced through language and exposed through contemplation. The researcher wants to find the right labels for "kids on the autistic spectrum" and "the others" in their project. Yet assigning the label scrawls all over the blank slate of research.