A/SCIENCE I

    The following messages with subject A/Science are the transcript of a
    speech given at a national meeting of biologists in Washington D.C.
    This scientist also is a teacher of mine, and this text is primary.
    Anonymous author D.G., (c) 1994, please do not store/distribute online.

    Posted regarding architecture and science.  The following IIV messages
    are aimed at addressing constitutional law in the enframing of humans
    and the scientific estate.  But just as real, that below is a framework
    for many ideas, not one.

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                          C o m m e n t a r i e s

        In a consensual and descriptive sense science is the orthodoxy.
   As such it enables and sanctifies much action.  Broadly construed
   science informed instruments are the legitimate mode of public action.
   Within these conditions of knowledge and action governance has trans-
   formed.  All its purposes and their agencies have constituted themselves
   around the material, conceptual and organizational manifestations of
   scientific knowledge.  All elements of the polity are profoundly
   affected:  the church, its knowledge discredited, is reduced to
   vestigial respectability; the margin between public and private
   enterprise vanishes, both practically and theoretically, in the
   presence of scientific abstractions; political parties become purely
   structural, as do nation states, their historical rationale no longer
   being a serious basis for action; universities lose their critical
   detachment by overt inclusion in the political economy; the rational-
   ization of law, morality, and even the humanities is sought for in
   calculi of efficiencies; and the significance of the public is seen
   as best reckoned in terms of its scientific and professional capital.
   In this context governance becomes problematic, and the relationship
   between science and political authority fundamental.

       Through governance (hu)man's will to power is both articulated and
   constrained.  Science has sublimed that will to power, and the
   consequences are radical.

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