Morus Iwan Rhys
Department of History and Welsh History, Hugh Owen Building, Aberystwyth University, Wales.
Isis. 2010 Dec;101(4):775-8. doi: 10.1086/657476.
This introductory essay discusses the origins of current interest in performances and performativity in the history of science as an outcome of the concern with understanding science as practice that emerged from the 1980s onward. The language of performance, it suggests, provides useful analytic tools for historians of science because it focuses our attention on the bodies of practitioners, their embodied practices, and their presentation of self to different audiences. It provides a new approach to understanding the politics of knowledge production and dissemination. Lastly, the essay suggests, the emphasis on performance invites us to develop new, nontextual strategies for representing our own researches.
这篇引言性文章探讨了当前科学史中对表演和操演性产生兴趣的起源，这是自20世纪80年代以来，将科学理解为实践的关注所产生的结果。文章认为，表演的语言为科学史家提供了有用的分析工具，因为它将我们的注意力集中在从业者的身体、他们的具体实践以及他们向不同受众展示自我的方式上。它为理解知识生产和传播的政治提供了一种新方法。最后，文章指出，对表演的强调促使我们开发新的、非文本的策略来呈现我们自己的研究。
