ABSTRACT
In the politics of popular memory," 1968" marked a significant point of radical student politics which has been contested through a pervasive retro/nostalgia/recycled aesthetic ever since by a New Right that has managed to create a climate of disillusionment and disenchantment with the Utopian ideals of the 1960s and 1970s. The fantasy of cyberspace tries to ensure a Utopian transcendence by reconciling the rational and the irrational, i.e., reconciling word with spirit as that which can never utterly be known. The benefits of science were to be made available to the working class through social Utopian schemes, like the Bauhaus, wherein industry was to become art. Pragmatically, science worked, but it did so at the expense of any moral guiding light, a critique which feminist scientists like Evelyn Fox-Keller and Sandra Harding have spearheaded. The elevation of the mind above the body was one of the hallmarks of the Enlightenment.
