Historical Locatedness

Now that we’ve covered cultural and community locatedness, what about that tricky third one – historical locatedness?  How is our science affected by our historical context? And what does that have to do with objectivity?

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Sophie Wang (aka shuf) is a big nerd and small zine gremlin who challenges our taken-for-granted assumptions about western science through comics and zines. She draws (heh) from her background in Science and Technology Studies and her many years making art of widely varying quality. You can follow her at @wangshuf.