[PEN-L:28577] Re: RE: Re: rejecting a school

[Bill Burgess <burgess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't understand the physics, but wasn't Newtonian physics transcended
long before post-structuralism (by Einstein, a socialist, for one)? I'm not
convinced by Irigarary that the _particular_ obstacle to better physics was
masculinity, but in any case, I don't see how the _general_ point about the
social construction of science and the rejection of pretensions to
objectivity is a (new) achievement. Engels discussed flows in _Dialectics
of Nature_, and Marx's _Capital_ is all about bourgeois objectivity.

Bill


> > Can someone name the main achievement of one author who has been
> > dubbed "post-structuralist"?
>
> the lads at http://www.adequacy.org had a go at claiming that Luce Irigaray
> anticipated Stephen Wolfram's "New Kind of Science": (I have added a couple
> of question marks to words which do not get through my firewall)