The Lippard Blog

Science fiction has been a popular genre at least since Jules Verne’s 19th century work, and arguably longer still. But can it have practica...

Being modern, argues Bruno Latour in We Have Never Been Modern (1993, Harvard Univ. Press), involves drawing a sharp distinction between “n...

Matthew LaClair, who exposed his proselytizing U.S. history teacher/youth pastor in 2006 , now hosts his own radio show, "Equal Time fo...

James Scott’s Seeing Like a State (about which I've blogged previously ) talks about how the state imposes standards in order to make f...

Studies of the public understanding of science generally produce results that show a disturbingly high level of ignorance.  When asked to ag...

Chapter 3 of Langdon Winner’s The Whale and the Reactor (1988) is titled “ Techné and Politeia ,” a discussion of the relationship of tech...

Today I went to hear Bruce Wagman speak on the subject of "Many Species of Animal Law" at ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor Colleg...

I caught these two male dogs in the front yard this afternoon--they wandered in while the gate was open, and I closed it to catch them.  No ...

It's a bad misconception about evolution that it proceeds in a linear progression of one successfully evolving species after another dis...

It has been argued by many that science, politics, and religion are distinct subjects that should be kept separate, in at least one directio...