The Tympanic Eclipse (www.tympaniceclipse.org)

What is capital M Modern science? How have humans cooked it up? What is cybernetics? And how are they different? Dr. Andy Pickering ties together western traditions of binary thinking with modern science and discusses them in comparison with cybernetics and its complimentary, pluralistic eastern philosophies that he argues allow for a more true account of what the world is really like. Cybernetics reveals the world as it changes through time rather than fits it to a formula that humans make for it, which Andy explains has political implications that defy concepts like imperialism and scientific determinism. It’s kinda like the counter culture of science, where Modern science is the mainstream. A longer version of this episode aired on RADEQ radio in London, July 21, 2012. // Andrew Pickering is internationally known as a leader in the field of science and technology studies. Pickering has held fellowships at MIT, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Princeton University, the Guggenheim Foundatio