Gill, Josie (Author)
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Volume: 26
Issue: 3
Pages: 283-288
While the March for Science movement seeks to improve the relationship between science, scientists, and the public, it is clear and also understandable that the space for debating the nature of facts might begin to close down in the face of an antiscience political sphere. Thus one of the challenges for decolonization scholars and activists is to make a case for alternative, decolonized forms of knowledge that can be taken seriously and differentiated from the deliberate and misleading denial of scientific fact by the likes of Trump. What has this to do with literature and science studies? It seems obvious that the current moment in which the nature of scientific fact is being questioned should concern scholars whose work is dedicated to exploring the narrative aspects of science and the relationship between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy. Contemporary literature and science scholarship is far removed from the deconstructionist approaches that prompted the culture wars of the 1990s, the mode of critique that Bruno Latour contends is characterized by the belief that "facts are made up, that there is no such thing as natural, unmediated, unbiased access to truth, that we are always prisoners of language.
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