Gavroglu, Kostas (Author)
HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology
Volume: 6
Pages: 85-100
This paper attempts to discuss the relations between science popularization and hegemonic ideology. The latter is continuously in need to rearticulate itself, and science popularization appears to be one of the means for such a rearticulation. Nevertheless, it also appears that hegemonic ideology and scientific popularization are strongly linked with the construction of utopias, such as those of a world of almost free energy of the 1950s and of a world free of diseases of post-1980s.
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