JBS Haldane Lecture 2018 : Prof. John Tresch - Barnum, Bache and Poe.
JBS Haldane Lecture 2018 : Prof. John Tresch - Barnum, Bache and Poe: Forging Science in a Media Revolution.
The Department of Science and Technology Studies holds its second JBS Haldane Lecture of 2018 with Professor John Tresch of The Warburg Institute, discussing the history of PT Barnum, Alexander Dallas Bache, and Edgar Allen Poe - their relation to developments in science during that era, and the similarities with present-day America.
The JBS Haldane Lecture Series is the flagship public lecture series from the Department of Science and Technology Studies at UCL. Named in honour of UCL Professor JBS Haldane, a polymath not only in the life sciences but also in science communication and science policy, the department aims to hold these biannually. More details can be found on the STS Website at
Abstract:
Today’s scientific and political institutions face severe challenges, nowhere more visibly than in the USA— where scientific evidence of climate change is scorned by a media-obsessed president whose heroes include the nativist demagogue Andrew Jackson and the con-artist P.T. Barnum. This lecture returns to the 1830s and 1840s, the era of Barnum, Jackson, and a communications revolution, to explore competing visions of the cosmos and of the relation between science and the demos in a moment of turmoil. Two opposed tendencies characterised antebellum public culture: first, a sharp increase in printed communication, with periodicals, audiences, styles, and authors exploding in number and diversity; second, a coordinated movement by educated elites to control knowledge through centralised and hierarchical institutions. In the sciences, the Lyceum movement and Barnum’s “American Museum” typified the first, while the U.S. Coast Survey, directed by Benjamin Franklin’s great grandson, the West Point-educated polymath, Alexander Dallas Bache, exemplified the second.
The work of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was shaped by both tendencies. Trained at West Point, Poe wrote frequently about the sciences, even as he invented new forms of literary sensationalism. He “forged” American science and letters in two senses: by supporting projects to establish a unified and regulated intellectual infrastructure, and by crafting believable fakes which fed popular uncertainty about authority over knowledge. Poe thus offers astute, prophetic, and dramatically conflicted commentary on science, its publics, and the stories it tells.
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