Boundaries of Poetic Science

Elsewhere I have been thinking about the processes by which science is understood and communicated as a genre of cognitive poetics, one which draws heavily on metaphors of objects, transparent spaces, lucidity, visuality etc. Following Ranciere, this poetics simultaneously erases traces of its own existence, such that the language of empiricism appears metaphor-free. I'm quite interested in those places within language and thought where this lucidity and transparency begins to break down and the poetic nature of cogntion and communication becomes apparent, which is particularly apparent at the various boundaries of science.

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• science
• empiricism
• knowledge
• boundary
• border
• pseudoscience
• frontier
• fringe
• metaphor
• poetry
• poetics

[2bsirius]

The idea of science as a kind of poetics is intriguing, but that idea would have driven some of my philosophy of science profs to fits of apoplexy.This video made me want to reread Stanley Fish..He's very controversial..so it would be interesting to see why that's true.

Your thoughts about the limits of scientific knowing is something I obsess about too...I'm especially intrigued by the limits imposed on what I think of as ontological and somatic constraints.

As usual, very interesting video