ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 critically reviews the work of Lorraine Daston, her co-authored work with Peter Galison, and her earlier work on the history of scientist-subjectivity and its role in the making of objective science. It posits four challenges to the scientist-subject either as a neo-Kantian ideal – a unified and wilful, self-determined, self-regulated, active and autonomous, rational subject wilfully driven by social and scientific ethos – or a Foucauldian construct – the subject reduced entirely to the effects of power. In the background of this review, the aim of this chapter is to open up the discussion for an alternative conception of the scientist-subject and thereby an affective and existential formulation of science.
