New PDF release: Science Wars through the Stargate: Explorations of Science

By Steven Gil

ISBN-10: 1442256192

ISBN-13: 9781442256194

The tale of an elite staff of scientists and squaddies who go back and forth to different worlds via an alien-built portal, Stargate SG-1 gave its audience a weekly dose of spectacle and excessive event. Over its ten-season run (1997-2007), the sequence explored the interactions of the medical and army cultures represented through its characters, in addition to where of technology in society. The preliminary airing of Stargate SG-1 coincided with the “Science Wars,” a hugely public conflict between students and public intellectuals over the character and price of medical wisdom. Critics of technological know-how argued that it was once purely one type of wisdom between many, topic to biases and blind spots imposed by way of the tradition within which it was once created. Defenders of science—mostly scientists themselves—contended that it possessed a different skill to discover common truths, and therefore was once uniquely important to society.

In Science Wars during the Stargate: Explorations of technology and Society in Stargate SG-1, Steven Gil deals the 1st in-depth research of the sequence and locations it within the context of latest debates concerning the nature of medical suggestion. Gil contends that representations of technological know-how inside SG-1 should be extra totally understood during the prism of the technology Wars. clinical rules positioned forth in SG-1 display how such complicated highbrow exchanges and debates have a spot in pop culture and will be additional understood via those fictional articulations. even supposing SG-1 serves because the imperative case learn, the research additionally casts gentle at the function and place of technology in technology fiction tv extra in general.

The long-form narrative of Stargate SG-1 enabled it to have interaction, in subtle methods, with the various questions at factor within the technological know-how Wars. because the writer illustrates, the convey provided a fancy, subtle portrait of technology and scientists at a time whilst the medical company was once lower than excessive public scrutiny. Science Wars in the course of the Stargate will be of curiosity to technological know-how fiction students and fanatics of the sequence, but additionally to these attracted to the public’s evolving knowing of technology and its function in society.

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