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being that not even the finest traces of submission to social standards could be
found therein. Still, science is indisputably a social question and must be ana-
lyzed from a variety of nonscientific perspectives in order to be approached in
a creative fashion. For this reason, the narrowness and linearity of the scientific
method followed by the academic masses is mercilessly fought against in my lab
and classroom, all in an attempt to lift this new generation of scientists to the
top of Bloom’s taxonomy pyramid, where the creative and the metacognitive in-
tersect.38 As for (b), the aim has been to discard the old, rigid way of presenting
science, be it in the written or the oral form, and substitute it with a style that
signifies spontaneity and more veritably reflects the route to innovative ideas
along the corridors of the human mind, which is such that it relies on analogies,
poetry, swells of aesthetic senses and intuitive flashes of light along the way. As
for (c), the idea that siding with the disempowered must be the way to go in my
roaming through the chambers of the Kafkaesque castle that the Ivory Tower is
has been another guiding light, the reason why everything, from experimental
methods to research subjects to researchers and collaborators to research loca-
tions to political voices aired through these lungs, has been adjusted to afflict
the affluent and uplift the poor and the underprivileged.
Last but not least, yet another thing Godard could instruct one in is atten-
tion to detail, the awareness of the enormous power of the minutest of actions
38 Pintrich 2002.
Fig. 8: 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle (Jean-Luc Godard, FR/IT 1967). The final image, of a colorful
graveyard composed of boxes of detergents and other inanimate denizens of supermarket shelves,
epitomizes the essence of the deliberately shallow pop artiness; does it arise from a state of true
enlightenment or from sheer stupidity and years of brainwashing with the surface values? Not
incidentally at all, in this miniature model of a luxurious high-rise banlieue of Paris, itself a model
of an alienating urban landscape, itself a model of modern society, one finds a box of Hollywood
bubblegum.
JRFM
Journal Religion Film Media, Band 04/02
- Titel
- JRFM
- Untertitel
- Journal Religion Film Media
- Band
- 04/02
- Autoren
- Christian Wessely
- Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
- Herausgeber
- Uni-Graz
- Verlag
- Schüren Verlag GmbH
- Ort
- Graz
- Datum
- 2018
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Abmessungen
- 14.8 x 21.0 cm
- Seiten
- 135
- Kategorien
- Zeitschriften JRFM