#STS Friends:
Is there a term for how people are often willing to uncritically accept a technology if the person associated with it has a rebel/heterodox story? Other example: In the popular imagination the space around Tesla approaches mysticism.https://twitter.com/WhySharksMatter/status/987393415141715968 …
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I don't know if there's a specific term for that, but I can look into it. The thing is social studies of technologies tends not to focus on individual actors. On a hunch I searched "STS Geo-Engineering" & found this though: http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/1/269/pdf …
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I don't know if you can access it, but this is Latour writing on specifically climate narratives and their credulous & contradictory nature:https://harpers.org/archive/2017/05/the-new-climate/ …
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I'm trying to find an accessible version, because Latour argues that specifically as surrounds climate technologies (geo-engineering, ocean cleanup, carbon capture), people understand intuitively that they are BS, which def has to do with their contradictory nature
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