Looks like a great book! Susan Harding and Karen Barad write about scientific research, being to an extent, performative in that we are trying to construct narratives about human and natural phenomena through rigidly controlled experiments--this will always introduce a level of bias.
yes--Karen Barad was really important to me in my dissertation work for just that reason, though the project was entirely different, and I'm not sure I'd made that connection until now! but yes--the researcher is *always* part of the research, even in theoretical physics, as Barad writes so beautifully about
Looks like a great book! Susan Harding and Karen Barad write about scientific research, being to an extent, performative in that we are trying to construct narratives about human and natural phenomena through rigidly controlled experiments--this will always introduce a level of bias.
yes--Karen Barad was really important to me in my dissertation work for just that reason, though the project was entirely different, and I'm not sure I'd made that connection until now! but yes--the researcher is *always* part of the research, even in theoretical physics, as Barad writes so beautifully about
thank you so much for this conversation, Allison! (and for cleaning up a bit my many tangents and digressions!)