Rituals of myth and sacred, two legitimizing moments in ‘from the annals of the laboratory state’: A critique

Hassan Rouhvand *

Department of Communication, Institute of Oriental Culture and Heritage Studies, Istanbul-Turkey.
 
Review
International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2024, 11(02), 1271–1274.
Article DOI: 10.30574/ijsra.2024.11.2.0580
 
Publication history: 
Received on 25 February 2024; revised on 05 April 2024; accepted on 08 April 2024
 
Abstract: 
This critique unfolds the areas of Visvanathan’s article which aims to open up challenges to ‘prevailing’ western discourse of science which, he assumes, is linked to and associated with political and economic interests. In this review, the writer seeks to draw attention to the concepts deployed both by the western scientists and Visvanathan, as well as to the methodology Visvanathan has adopted by combining the concepts in arts, science and humanities to advance with his agenda. The writer would show that defining any paradigm or procedure as a ‘sacred’ moment may easily lead to discipline-policing and to the reproduction of reductionist worldviews, implicated whether in the scientific or humanistic thought.
 
Keywords: 
Science; Laboratory state; West; Myth; Visvanathan
 
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