Comments on: Emotions in science — reinventing the wheel http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/12/20/reinventing-the-wheel-emotions-in-science/ Medical Museion Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Anthony Jones http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/12/20/reinventing-the-wheel-emotions-in-science/comment-page-1/#comment-246723 Anthony Jones Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:54:30 +0000 http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/12/20/reinventing-the-wheel-emotions-in-science/#comment-246723 "Lorimer’s article illustrate one of the dangers of intellectual movements like ANT — they form cognitively closed communities that become so absorbed in their own terminology that they don’t realize that there exist other analytical approaches to the world." Here is what i think one of the biggest problems in science today. People get so caught up in "being right" and "having the best way" that they often forget or ignore other approaches or idea that could benefit the community as a whole. “Lorimer’s article illustrate one of the dangers of intellectual movements like ANT — they form cognitively closed communities that become so absorbed in their own terminology that they don’t realize that there exist other analytical approaches to the world.”

Here is what i think one of the biggest problems in science today. People get so caught up in “being right” and “having the best way” that they often forget or ignore other approaches or idea that could benefit the community as a whole.

]]> By: Adam http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/12/20/reinventing-the-wheel-emotions-in-science/comment-page-1/#comment-246711 Adam Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:01:19 +0000 http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/12/20/reinventing-the-wheel-emotions-in-science/#comment-246711 Also, it seems from the quotes that the author has roundly misunderstood Massumis notion of affect (which he adopts from Deleuze), since affect is explicitly seperate from what people are "feeling at the time, what they enjoyed about their work and what they found frustrating." Affect, in Massumis usage, is the pre-linguistic, pre-cognitive, physiological response to the world around us. It is what gives feelings their intensity, but it is not emotions. Affect, then, is rather a way of introducing physiology, corporeality and biology into the study of science, not a way of figuring out a 'topography of fun.' Also, it seems from the quotes that the author has roundly misunderstood Massumis notion of affect (which he adopts from Deleuze), since affect is explicitly seperate from what people are “feeling at the time, what they enjoyed about their work and what they found frustrating.” Affect, in Massumis usage, is the pre-linguistic, pre-cognitive, physiological response to the world around us. It is what gives feelings their intensity, but it is not emotions. Affect, then, is rather a way of introducing physiology, corporeality and biology into the study of science, not a way of figuring out a ‘topography of fun.’

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