Most knowledge is inarticulable. It’s not only learned by doing, it’s intimately indexed by our lived relationship with tools. A culture of evidence and object

Most knowledge is inarticulable. It’s not only learned by doing, it’s intimately indexed by our lived relationship with tools. A culture of evidence and objectivity, well exhibited by this very blog post, has had two implications: (I) actual knowledge that was not based on explicit, technically appealing principles, has been demoted — witness the come-and-go of architecture, for example and (II) people where explicit and technically appealing principles didn’t exist fell for “objectivity strawmen” or, where they were able to socially impose their deeper inarticulable knowledge, they have used strawmen to get the culture of objectivity off their sense. What’s perverse about this is that people who are cynical about the socially inflated need for objectivity end up making other, more naive, people buy bullshit like the 3:1 ratio; and people who debunk bullshit like this blogger further perpetuate the misconception that insufficient objectivity and bibliographical references are a relevant problem, even while going about the motions of disavowing the role of science (a heightened mode of objectivity discourse) on lowly design-engineering. Is design even engineering discipline? To its core? Is the world better off when Google does some ersatz research and we start trusting “Material Design” more than the deep civilizational background that artists (industrial or not) are supposed to have at their disposal?