Outwardly, an academic field claims as much territory as possible, but inside, it narrows its scope to a particular subset of phenomena, and methods of treating them, which allows it reduce the work to a safe routine of minimal-publishable-units production.
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For once I agree with a thread of yours almost 100%. Both the deconstruction of the knee-jerk reaction and the skepticism of the proposal. The proposal is bad but not for the reasons the critics imagine in their turf-anxious motivated and perverse missing of the point.
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The leveraged land-grab mechanism via coverage of a small fraction of the territory claimed could be a good definition of “paradigm”. Internal Kuhnian paradigm shifts are civil wars. A field getting dismantled by gravity of more densely covered adjacent ones is like invasion.
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https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sciences-artificial … - "The sciences of the artificial" by Herbert Simon seems like a good start. The science of making science/tech progress is sorely needed, indeed And something that encompasses their externalities (+ve and -ve)
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Would love your thoughts on my take - there are (usually higher-end) soc sci takes that do a better job, but what's really needed is a mode of reflexive thought by/for innovators (however we define that):https://www.progressstudies.org/2019/08/09/manifesto/ …
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Totally agree!
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Hey Jordan, what's up? The thread is compiled, don't hesitate to share it. Have a good reading:https://threader.app/thread/1156964645657169920 …
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Hallo the unroll you asked for: Thread by
@Meaningness: "I found this essay inspiring and important. The pace of progress in science and technology has slowed, for reasons we pa […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1156964645657169920.html … Have a good day.
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Hello please find the unroll here: Thread by
@Meaningness: "I found this essay inspiring and important. The pace of progress in science and technology has slowed, for reasons we pa […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1156964645657169920.html … See you soon.
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, these fields frequently work to support political agendas, rather than to figure things out. “History of technology” is often just “Technology: horrifying threat or global menace?”