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  1. Simulacra and Simulation.Jean Baudrillard - 1994 - University of Michigan Press.
    Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.
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  • Epistemic cultures: how the sciences make knowledge.Karin Knorr-Cetina - 1999 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    How does science create knowledge? Epistemic cultures, shaped by affinity, necessity, and historical coincidence, determine how we know what we know. In this book, Karin Knorr Cetina compares two of the most important and intriguing epistemic cultures of our day, those in high energy physics and molecular biology. Her work highlights the diversity of these cultures of knowing and, in its depiction of their differences--in the meaning of the empirical, the enactment of object relations, and the fashioning of social relations--challenges (...)
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  • Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World.Londa Schiebinger - 2006 - Journal of the History of Biology 39 (1):203-205.
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  • Epistemology of the Closet: Updated with a New Preface.Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - 1990 - University of California Press.
    Proust. and. the. Spectacle. of. the. Closet. "Vous devez vous y entendre mieux que moi, M. de Charlus, a faire marcher des petits marins. . . . Tenez, voici unlivreque j'ai recu, jepensequ'il vous interessera. . . . Letitreest joli: Parmiles hommes.
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  • Social theories of ignorance.Michael J. Smithson - 2008 - In Robert N. Proctor & Londa Schiebinger (eds.), Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance. Stanford University Press Stanford, California. pp. 209--229.
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  • Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance.Robert N. Proctor & Londa Schiebinger (eds.) - 2008 - Stanford University Press Stanford, California.
    "This volume emerged from workshops held at Pennsylvania State University in 2003 and Stanford University in 2005"--P. vii.
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  • Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge.Karin Knorr Cetina - 1999 - Harvard University Press.
    How does science create knowledge? Epistemic cultures, shaped by affinity, necessity, and historical coincidence, determine how we know what we know. In this book, Karin Knorr Cetina compares two of the most important and intriguing epistemic cultures of our day, those in high energy physics and molecular biology. The first ethnographic study to systematically compare two different scientific laboratory cultures, this book sharpens our focus on epistemic cultures as the basis of the knowledge society.
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  • Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway - 2010 - Bloomsbury Press.
    The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. These scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. -/- Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and (...)
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  • Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to the Actor-Network Theory.Bruno Latour - 2005 - Oxford, England and New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press.
    Latour is a world famous and widely published French sociologist who has written with great eloquence and perception about the relationship between people, science, and technology. He is also closely associated with the school of thought known as Actor Network Theory. In this book he sets out for the first time in one place his own ideas about Actor Network Theory and its relevance to management and organization theory.
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  • Ghostly matters: haunting and the sociological imagination.Avery Gordon - 2008 - Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
    Her shape and his hand -- Distractions -- The other door, it's floods of tears with consolation enclosed -- Not only the footprints but the water too and what is down there -- There are crossroads.
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  • Orientalism.Edward Said - 1978 - Vintage.
    A provocative critique of Western attitudes about the Orient, this history examines the ways in which the West has discovered, invented, and sought to control the East from the 1700s to the present.
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  • Knowledge and social imagery.David Bloor - 1976 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    The first edition of this book profoundly challenged and divided students of philosophy, sociology, and the history of science when it was published in 1976. In this second edition, Bloor responds in a substantial new Afterword to the heated debates engendered by his book.
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  • (1 other version)A thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia.Gilles Deleuze - 1987 - London: Athlone Press. Edited by Félix Guattari.
    Suggests an open system of psychological exploration to cut through accepted norms of morality, language, and politics.
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  • The World Social Forum and the Global Left.Boaventura De Sousa Santos - 2008 - Politics and Society 36 (2):247-270.
    This article has two purposes. First, it aims to put the development of the World Social Forum within a broad theoretical and historical context. Specifically, my goal is to understand the WSF in relation to the crises of left thinking and practice of the last thirty or forty years. Second, it offers an analysis of some recent debates about the future of the WSF. It raises questions concerning its organizational makeup and asks whether it should continue as it is, or (...)
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  • Unfinished System of Nonknowledge.Georges Bataille - 2001 - Univ of Minnesota Press. Edited by Stuart Kendall.
    This volume collects the most intimate writings of one of the foremost French thinkers of the twentieth century on the central topic of his oeuvre.
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  • Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice.Charles Bazerman - 1989 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (1):115-118.
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  • Challenging knowledge: How climate science became a victim of the Cold War.Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway - 2008 - In Robert N. Proctor & Londa Schiebinger (eds.), Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance. Stanford University Press Stanford, California. pp. 55--89.
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  • The vitality of stupidity.René ten Bos - 2007 - Social Epistemology 21 (2):139 – 150.
    It is argued that the focus within organization studies on wisdom is one-sided in the sense that it ignores stupidity, wisdom's little stepbrother. Too often it is simply taken for granted that an increase in wisdom will lead to a decrease in stupidity. The problem with this assumption is that it is philosophically uninformed. Stupidity and wisdom stand in a deeply paradoxical relationship, which has been studied by philosophers at least since the Stoics. Some recent contributions to this endless debate (...)
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  • Why We Choose to Be Stupid: The Responsibility of Andragogy and a Search for Answers in Paradox, Canon, Multiculturalism and the Philosophy of Postmodern Critical Education Theory.Gregory Norton Garcia - 1997 - Dissertation, Montana State University
    In this study ideas and concepts that can be used to describe the phenomenon of stupidity and explore the possibility that we choose to be stupid, were developed from the social and political philosophy of Western Civilization. The research methods applied were based on the phenomenological school of qualitative inquiry using a narrative style. Finding suggest we choose to be stupid and stupidity can be generally described in the following ways: ;Conceptually, it is a paradox or antilogy that can be (...)
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