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The Ezra Klein Show
It was presented as a deep yet counterintuitive history showing that objectivity is historically contingent and intertwined with shifting ideas of subjectivity and technology. The speakers praised its ambitious scholarship.
Objectivity by Peter Galison and Lorraine Daston.
— Episode: Your Mind Is Being Fracked
Episode: Your Mind Is Being Fracked
It was presented as a deep yet counterintuitive history showing that objectivity is historically contingent and intertwined with shifting ideas of subjectivity and technology. The speakers praised its ambitious scholarship.
Objectivity by Peter Galison and Lorraine Daston.
That book is a history of something that seems impossible to historicize. Objectivity doesn't have a history. Objectivity is just being objective. That's like transhistorical.
They do an extraordinary and counterintuitive job of showing how radically historical our conceptualization of objectivity itself is, and how entangled it is with shifting ideas of subjectivity, for instance, or the way that it plays off of the emergence of mechanical technologies for making inscriptions.