Tariq Banuri, “Development and the Politics of Knowledge,” in Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance, eds. Frederique [...]
4 February, 2018
Tariq Banuri – Development and the Politics of Knowledge
Stephen A. Marglin – Towards the Decolonization of the Mind
Stephen A. Marglin, “Towards the Decolonization of the Mind”, in Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance, eds. Frederique [...]
4 February, 2018
Can this taxonomic scheme (techne, episteme, and technai) apply to the interactions between Western-mode agronomists and Oaxaca’s indigenous population? What does it mean that Marglin’s essay employs the attitude and technique of episteme in order to make these claims? “But what is culture? We are all accustomed to thinking of culture as a set of rules, largely tacit […]
4 February, 2018
“However, under both criteria well-being may be said to improve if people opt for the new alternative. Either way, a sufficient condition for welfare improvement is that people vote with their feet or their pocketbooks or their ballots for the modern over the traditional. Under the intrinsic criterion, the choice of new alternatives is evidence […]
3 February, 2018
Andrew Cunningham and Katharine Park Comparative Interpretation of Vesalius’s De Fabrica Title-page
Andrew Cunningham, The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients (Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate, 1997). Katharine [...]
14 November, 2017
Katharine Park – Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection || Shigehisa Kuriyama – “Muscularity and Identity” in Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
Katharine Park, Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection (New York: Zone Books, 2006). Shigehisa Kuriyama, “Muscularity [...]
12 November, 2017
Anthony Bebbington – Modernization from below: An Alternative Indigenous Development?
Anthony Bebbington, “Modernization from below: An Alternative Indigenous Development?” Economic Geography 69, no. 3 (July 1993), 274-292. 274 [...]
18 October, 2017
Mario Biagioli – Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism
Mario Biagioli, Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism (Chicago, U. of Chgo. Press, 1993). Response [At the onset: I have [...]
29 September, 2017
C. Scott Dixon – Popular Astrology and Lutheran Propaganda in Reformation Germany
C. Scott Dixon, “Popular Astrology and Lutheran Propaganda in Reformation Germany,” History 84, no. 275 (July 1999). Response In his “Popular Astrology and [...]
15 September, 2017
Richard Sorabji – “The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle”
Richard Sorabji, “The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle,” in Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence, ed. Richard [...]
8 September, 2017
