Sometime recently, 'Karl' wrote:
> It is merely our subjective way of experiencing "reality". It is not
> objective.
Part of the problem, indeed, may be that the subjective has been
irrevocably blurred with the objective. I think Adorno said as
much in an essay entitled 'Subject, Object'. A very intersting
source on a socially constructed objectivity is Helen Longino. In
her book, _Science as Social Knowledge_, she shows in a very rigorious
way how objectivity can incorporate a great deal of subjectivity,
and still come up with lots of facts. This, however, is a very
different objectivity than the one demanding a god's eye point of
view, one that refuses to see how the observer can influence
what is observed. While I think that Longino bases her reading
of Foucault too much on what Dreyfus and Rabinow have to say, he
project seems to be very friendly to his kind of critique.
Just trying to stay on the topic and avoid those pesky
ad hominem attacks, as 'Karl' has so patiently advised.
Joanna Crosby
Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD