Pandoras hope a reading part 3

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Pandoras hope - a reading part 3
Eric Monteiro, NTNU and Univ. of Oslo Oslo,
spring 2000
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Cute
Nothing irritates me more than being
presented as provocative or even
critical (p. 268)
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Contents

• Fetish a la facts
• action
• a strategy for research

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The slight surprise of action

• Theory lt--------gt Practise
• object lt---------gt subject
• human lt--------gt non-human
• is it real or is it fabricated?!

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Symmetry

• Belief - something to be destroyed - as illusions
• as with facts
• No look for strings attatched

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Jagannath

• A mere stone?
• Or a symbol
• what makes it real(effective)?

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Fetish
But if anti-fetishism is clearly an accusation it
is not a description of what happens with those
who believe or are manipulated p. 270
Ex. when we bash square-headed software eng.
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Post-modernism/relativism?
a mere stone or ...a social construction?no
comment But this flirts dangerously with
postmodernism that construction and reality
is the same thing everything is just so much
illusion, storytelling, and make
believe (p. 275)
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Action

• We use a vocabulary of mastery (construction
  etc.) but we are not masters
• a modernist heritage

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What works

• Facts - autonomous when well fabricated
• Fetish - effective in forming action when well
  fabricated

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Surprise
Whenever we make something we are not in
command, we are slightly overtaken by the
action I never act. Im always slightly
surprised by what I do Action is not about
mastery (p. 281)
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A strategy

• Not as Jagannath - trying to unveil the
  illusion
• autonomous/ effective is the net result - look
  for the work behind the accomplishment
• protect the diversity of ontology - not to
  degenerate into facts fetish