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Chris Knight will explore the impact of US war research on the trajectory of science in the late 20thC:
"This talk will adopt an anthropological perspective to make sense of certain strange fashions in Western intellectual history. In the light of the recent ‘Oppenheimer’ film, there is renewed interest in the politically charged and highly militarised science of the early Cold War era.
"The talk will describe how Noam Chomsky’s institutional position within a US military laboratory popularised the idea that the human brain is a digital computer and language one of its specialised modules. In an era when computer metaphors were commonplace, Chomsky’s theory that language could be reduced to a digital module gave a bizarrely misleading form to modern linguistics - in turn damaging archaeology, anthropology and other disciplines. Meanwhile, Chomsky’s tireless anti-war activism continues to inspire many of us."
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4 фев 2024
