CFP: The Rhetoric of Anti-Science (3/1/05; MLA '05)

Call for Papers: The Rhetoric of Anti-Science
Proposed special session
MLA Convention, December 27-30, 2005
Washington, DC

"Anti-Science" as a term of art and abuse in the science wars.
Anti-science not as not-science, but as science's Other.
Anti-science as an argument at the stasis of definition.
Anti-science as the pharmakon of science.

The anti-science concept may name (among others) scientific fraud, species
of creationism, global warming skepticism, science policy under the Bush
administration, complementary/alternative medicine, and science studies
itself.

Send title, abstract, and brief bio by 1 March 2005 to d.kellogg_at_neu.edu

David Kellogg
Director, Advanced Writing in the Disciplines
Department of English
465 Holmes Hall
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115

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