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    Science fiction and science dis/trust: Thinking with Bruno Latour’s Gaia and Liu Cixin’s The Three-body Problem

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    de Freitas, E; Truman, SE
    Date
    2020-06-01
    Source Title
    Rhizomes: cultural studies in emerging knowledge
    Publisher
    Electric
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Truman, Sarah
    Affiliation
    Melbourne Graduate School of Education
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    de Freitas, E. & Truman, S. E. (2020). Science fiction and science dis/trust: Thinking with Bruno Latour’s Gaia and Liu Cixin’s The Three-body Problem. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, (36), https://doi.org/10.20415/rhiz/036.e02.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/254230
    DOI
    10.20415/rhiz/036.e02
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    http://doi.org/10.20415/rhiz/036.e02
    Abstract
    This article draws on the ideas of Bruno Latour to examine the nature of science dis/trust and denialism in times of crisis. We argue that Latour’s image of science creates new demands on public trust, shifting the focus from ‘trusting that a particular scientific claim is true’ towards an engagement with Gaia (earth) where scientists encounter and form alliances with agencies alive with trickster motive. We use the science fiction novel Three body problem to explore the specific challenges to scientific authority within this relational ontology, under various climatic regimes. We show how the SF novel offers insights into Latour’s proposal for science as a risky diplomacy in a metamorphic zone

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