Shattuck, Roger

Roger Shattuck on the moral confusion of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Ken Myers shares some paragraphs from Langdon Winner‘s seminal book, Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought (1977) and from Roger Shattuck‘s Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (1996). An interview with Shattuck is also presented. (31 minutes)

Roger Shattuck on the dangers of wanting to know more than we should

Is “free speech” finally an empty abstraction? Interviews with Rochelle Gurstein (The Repeal of Reticence) and Roger Shattuck (Forbidden Knowledge) challenge some conventional assumptions. (37 minutes)

Rogert Shattuck: “The age-old uneasiness about the subversive potentialities of unfettered knowledge reveal a recognition that knowledge can bring unhappiness and ruin as well as insight and liberation.”