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SCIENCE STUDIES EVENTS
THE MORAL CHARACTER OF MAD SCIENTISTS:
HOW TO SAY THAT SCIENCE IS EVIL
Chris Toumey
Department of Anthropology
University of South Carolina
October 13, 2004
Tuesday, 12:30pm
Sumwalt College, Room 102
While mad scientist stories are obviously homilies on the evil of science,
there are multiple ways for the symbol to convey the meaning. To understand
this hermeneutic process, it helps to see the unfolding of
anti-Enlightenment thought, especially Gothic horror, and also to see what
happens when mad scientists texts become mad scientist films. These
features have strong consequences for the message that science is evil, as
symbolized by the moral character of the mad scientist.
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