Notes

Article, In Defence of Critical Theory [1] - published in Unherd

The marxists started getting a little uneasy once their ideals devolved to a weird mustached man and another mass murderer in Russia.
Science - 'it's all made up'. It's a highly social process. And there's the replication crisis.
Bruno Latour - proposed that that we believe that we are modern and science tells us the truth. This is a really effed up mental model that provides us with arrogonce, limits ouro re-evaluation of possibilities ('we already know everything'), and prevents us from learning from history and other civilizations.
In a very real sense, science stripped of the myth of modernity takes on the same shape as the study of history. It is absurd to think that history is simply an account of what happened; “what happened” in a month in any small town would fill entire libraries. The historian’s task is to craft a narrative which illuminates some part of the past, using actual incidents as building blocks. A scientist without modernist pretensions, similarly, crafts a narrative that illuminates some part of nature, using replicable experimental results as building blocks. Theories along these lines are useful rather than true; they start by accepting the reality that the human mind is not complex enough to understand the infinite sweep of the cosmos, and then goes on to say, “but as far as we are capable of making sense of things, this story seems to reflect what happens”.

Critical Theory