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Since the technosciences are not concerned primarily to represent reality, the competing project’s main question addresses the relationship between knowledge and skill in building and making, in manipulating and modeling.

In this context, traditional concepts such as explanation and understanding, validation and objectivity need to be understood in the way they apply to technical construction procedures or the technoscientific knowledge of how things can work together in an apparatus, a device, an experimental or technological system.


--- A Nordmann. Chapter 7. ibid.

This is one of the reasons that math "works", esp. in computer hardware and software.

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This week's movie was Cries and Whispers (1972 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069467) - a real work of art.