... This essay argues that Donna Haraway’s negotiation of the “two poles” of the objectivity problem offers a way beyond the impasse of recent debates about method. In Primate Visions (1989), she outlines what she sees as the temptations of poststructuralist skepticism and scientific positivism...

... of errors in a computer program; the other was over claims that data was fabricated. This chapter takes a close look at how the community responded to these events to learn more about the role of trained judgment and moral economy in their practice of objectivity. The chapter then examines a third event...

... This chapter considers two of the key concepts of the seminal sound theorist Pierre Schaeffer: reduced listening and the sound object. The former indicates an effort to listen without attending to the context or causes of what is heard. Its correlate is the sound object: sound conceived...