Science again, from a different angle

(Re)reading science is a boiling-hot topic.  Postcolonialist Lyn Carter intentionally complicates the nature of epistemological search in science by noting the hegemonic tendencies of Western pluralistic and multicultural approach to theorizing. This complicating is essential to the methodological approach for dehegemonializing (that is my new term) the Western approach to science, especially as it minimizes indigenous (used here with the intent not to make the typical Western heterogeneous and binariality indicative of Western epistemology) and “Other” world-approaches. It is assumed by Carter that variety cannot be recognized by Western science, as Carter recognizes the work of one Zygmunt Bauman.   Bauman writes, “forms of life do not succeed each other: they settle aside each other, clash and mix, crowd together in the same space/time . . .Variety of life-forms is here to stay. And so is the imperative of their coexistence” It may be the tendency of Western thought to discriminate against that which cannot be explained by complexity in its sheer forms, but Variety is not excluded by science as we know it. In an attempt to shoot down Western conceptualizations Carter complains that “Binary thinking references all forms against the self, generating alternative versions of sameness, and effectively defining the terms in which the Other is allowed to exist” If anyone was paying attention to the postmodern move they would recognize that the self has become recognized as de-centered and that the self is at the epicenter of Western thought.  Carter explains that “poststructural theory aims to expose and destabilize binaries as value-laden and based in often-concealed hegemonic assumptions of the superiority of the first over the second” This is the postmodern and postcolonial shift in understanding the self as not necessary for a science that is other than Western.  Carter explains that it has been “shown that multicultural approaches to education, despite intentions to the contrary, can act as technologies of containment, used to ‘discipline’ and manage the tensions and contradictions of difference consequent to the changing practical and conceptual landscape”   This kind of management of incongruities demonstrates the fear of the Other that Western epistemologies have and the extent to which they will go to maintain order in the world of science. As I see it, fear is the motivator of sciences dealing with of the unknowable (in the Western epistemic approach), not attempts to be value-laden and judgmental.  This seems to be an alternate explanation for why Western science seeks order and complexity, rather than difference and variety.

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