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Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, who have been collaborating for more than two decades in the field of the science of representation as well as the representation of science (see for instance Baetens 2005), have cowritten a truly outstanding book, that will hopefully shape our future vision of what is meant by objectivity, from an epistemic as well as from an ethical (and aesthetical) point of view. The very notion of objectivity has a certain frightening quality, since it may rapidly become boundless and therefore unfocused, vague, or split between a dizzying range of competing meanings in various disciplines. One of the great achievements of this book is therefore the willingness to select a very simple (but of course not simplistic) starting point, which allows the authors to reconcile breadth of scope and precision of analysis. Instead of analyzing every possible theoretical debate on objectivity (and other related subjects such as truth, reference, and so on), they focus on the

Image and Narrative - Article Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative - ISSN 1780-678X Home Home archive Issue 22. Autofiction and/in Image - Autofiction visuelle II Objectivity Author: Jan Baetens Published: May 2008 Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison, Objectivity Zone Books, New York: 2007, 500 p. ISBN-10: 1890951781 ISBN-13: 978-1890951788 Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, who have been collaborating for more than two decades in the field of the science of representation as well as the representation of science (see for instance Baetens 2005), have cowritten a truly outstanding book, that wil

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