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... fact work , Latour claims , " to render ordinary , political life impotent through the threat of incontestable Nature " ( Politics 10 ) . Latour developed three early strategies to contest this modern scientific constitution . The first ...
... fact work , Latour claims , " to render ordinary , political life impotent through the threat of incontestable Nature " ( Politics 10 ) . Latour developed three early strategies to contest this modern scientific constitution . The first ...
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... fact and prophetic vision " ( qtd in Westfahl 70 ) , Latour , deeming science fiction " inadequate , since such writing usually draws upon technology for setting rather than plot " ( Aramis viii ) , ponders what genre would be capable ...
... fact and prophetic vision " ( qtd in Westfahl 70 ) , Latour , deeming science fiction " inadequate , since such writing usually draws upon technology for setting rather than plot " ( Aramis viii ) , ponders what genre would be capable ...
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... fact and fiction in that , on the one hand , a scientifically grounded prediction of a future discovery might be substantive enough to warrant a patent , so that [ Gernsback ] once spoke of “ true or prophetic science " as if both ...
... fact and fiction in that , on the one hand , a scientifically grounded prediction of a future discovery might be substantive enough to warrant a patent , so that [ Gernsback ] once spoke of “ true or prophetic science " as if both ...
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