@Kathryn - Thank you for the references you suggested, both Taves and
Jung. My aunt just sent me a copy of the Red Book for Christmas (she is
very good at picking out gifts).
@Karen - It is not often that I get jealous of another person's
dissertation topic. If you'd like, I'd love to chat with you more off
list. I am curious how your working out "on the page" of the
practitioner - academic tension is, well, working out for you. Do you
have a theoretical apparatus you find helpful? Is it more a matter of
laying out your source materials (interviews, related scholarship, your
own experiences, etc) and waiting for interconnections, flashes of
insight?
@Angela, Toyin, Chas, Shya, & Kathryn - Thank you all for, in your own
ways, hinting at paths toward a third perspective. It is good to know
that one exists, though as in my question for Karen, I am curious about
concrete methods for finding it. I suppose at bottom the method must be
a personal thing, though I do like to hear how others have thought this
through!
Best,
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Nelson
PhD Candidate
Department of History
Indiana University, Bloomington
Graduate Fellow
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar
"The Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and Objects"
Indiana University, Bloomington
http://sawyer.indiana.edu/index.html
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