Murph's Inseparable With Endorsement At The Science

Endorsement is used everywhere from the recognition of a product to the recognition of a person. Inseparable with endorsement is the science lying behind. Since …, science has become the unbiased criteria of being. In a way, science has grown into such a fetish that we hardly remember human’s role in creating it. However, conducted and interpreted by socially biased human beings, science, far from liberating people from dominance and hierarchy through “value-free truth,” reinforces the current power structure and legitimates domination of both nature and people. On one hand, science is used as a social control by the people in power; on the other hand, every person is subject to the society, affected by and contributing to domination at the
On one hand, science is defined by the value of the society which is directly related to the practical needs of the time. “For continuing survival of the human race it was believed that humans should become farmers and not explorers, thus using all possible resources for crops, not space exploration (“IMDb: FAQ for Interstellar (2014)”).” As is evident in Murph’s parent meeting, although science is still taught at school, the authority (not mentioned in the movie) selectively transmits science to the public through the control of knowledge. For example, the history books claim that the Apollo mission to the Moon were faked. In a word, only the science that fits in the social value are regarded as true science; other science are excluded from books and claimed to be fake. Murph’s teacher, not to exert domination on purpose, reinforces the ideas of the society through her interaction with students and parents. On the contrary, however, interstellar travel is the only way to sustain human species. As a result, a secret NASA installation is founded to explore planets that can support human beings in the future. Cooper, with three other astronauts, carries out the latest mission. Although Cooper is the “hero” of the movie, he is only a worker under the charge of Professor Brand in the exploration group. Just like researchers working under supervision of their bosses, Cooper gets access only to part of the
Indeed, the advent of science and technology has bring about transformation in both the value of the society and the role of domination. Advanced technologies, especially medical technologies, “have altered our understanding of body function, body definition, and potential life span,” and “destabilized the physical and social meanings of ‘motherhood,’ ‘fatherhood,’ and ‘family,’ further disrupting gender identities and gender relationships (Shevory).” By calling into question the categorical definiation of human body and social meanings and relationships, science also alters our ideas of hierchacy and domination. In fact, only by realizing the ways that science is legitimating domination in our society can we find the right direction of science and its relations to our society and transform it into the “science of