Stitching Together Creativity and Responsibility: Interpreting Frankenstein Across Disciplines (2016)
Halpern, Megan K. (Author)
Sadowski, Jathan (Author)
Eschrich, Joey (Author)
Finn, Ed (Author)
Guston, David H. (Author)
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Volume: 36
Issue: 1
Pages: 49-57
Edition Details: Special Issue: Science and Science Fiction - Volume II: Subjectivities
Language: English
This article explores Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as an “object of care” for use in examining the relationship between creativity and responsibility in the sciences and beyond. Through three short sketches from different disciplinary lenses—literature, science and technology studies, and feminist studies—readers get a sense of the different ways scholars might consider Shelley’s text as an object of care. Through an analysis and synthesis of these three sketches, the authors illustrate the value of such an object in thinking about broad cultural issues. The article acts as a kind of boundary object by creating distinct, yet overlapping narratives from an object that is owned by many social worlds. The three sketches reveal Frankenstein as a thoughtful consideration about what it means to care for, or fail to care for, one’s creation, rather than as a cautionary tale about the evils of scientific hubris. Although infrastructures at universities often prevent interdisciplinary dialogue, the article concludes that purposeful boundary objects created around objects of care like Frankenstein can help build bridges and create shared meanings for new interdisciplinary spaces.
...MoreArticle Alexander I. Stingl (2016) Introduction: “Give Me Sight Beyond Sight”: Thinking With Science Fiction as Thinking (Together) With (Others). Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society (pp. 3-27).
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