实践的冲撞与舞蹈的科学神话——评皮克林“超级赛博”的科学图景

The Myth of Science in the Mangle and Dance of Practice: On Pickering's a Super Cyborg's Image of Science

在《实践的冲撞》一书中,皮克林为我们描绘了科学家、社会和物质等各种力量相互作用、彼此冲撞,在实践的时间性中筑模和瞬时突现的开放式终结并循环往复的科学发生发展过程的美丽图景。他从操作性入手,添加并凸显了物质力量的作用,为我们展现了科学的更为丰富、全面和不可预期的演化图景。但是,赛博的科学观和借用复杂性研究的词汇对科学实践的不确定性描述以及西方逻辑演绎的推理方式对他的影响,使他的科学图景更加模糊,使科学实践活动混同于一般的事件中而无法辨认。

In ＂The Mangle of Practice＂, Pickering describes to us a new picture of science which highlights the practical dimension of science, according to which science emerges and develops in an open-ended and endless repeating process filled with the intertwining and mangling of agencies such as scientists, social and material ele- ments with their modelling and temporal emerging in the temporality of practice. The performativity of science en- tails and emphasizes the material agency in scientific practice which endows science with a more productive, in- clusive and unpredictable picture of scientific evolution. However, in Pickering＇s framework, the cyborg under- standing of science, the vocabulary from complexity science, the influence of western logical and deductive infer- ence, results in an ambiguous picture of science and, consequently, eliminates the epistemological differences between scientific practice and other human practice, which, finally, leads to Pickering＇s mangle of scientific practice towards a postmodern myth of science.