scientific blackboxing

baird, d. 2004. thing knowledge: a philosophy of scientific instruments. berkeley: university of california press.

when the black box works, its origins are forgotten and thus ‘paradoxically, the more science and technology succeed, the more opaque and obscure they become’.

(latour, b. 1999: 304. pandora’s hope. essays on the reality of science studies. cambridge, ma: harvard university press; ver também: 1994. on technical mediation – philosophy, sociology, genealogy. common knowledge 3(2): 29–64).

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