Monday, April 5, 2010
4.5.10
I was very fascinated by Latour's idea of knowledge as a vector, stressing that fact retroactively validates itself, where time is of the essence. In regards to the relationship of time to knowledge, he writes that "we don't know yet, but we will know, or rather, we will know whether we had known earlier or not." The attached quote above summarizes another important aspect of knowledge, in which it is in many ways circumstantial and specifically subscribed to context. This emphasizes the margin for error in organizing artifacts and information in the museum environment. In the scenario of the horse exhibit, the two parallel lineages of horses demonstrated that scientists overlooked the anomalies in their theory of evolution to make a cleaner, more stylized presentation. However, the revisited lineage seems to have sparked some interesting controversy. It seems funny to me that, as humans, we can embrace the evolution of a species, but not always the evolution of knowledge.
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