Baroque uncertainty is grounded in relativized scientific knowledge of nature

Evidence

Science entered an age of rational and basic uncertainties. That is, the conceptions of Nature expanded, became relative, which is the very basis of the baroque tendency. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 433

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes what Glissant means by ‘baroque’ at root: the relativizing of any fixed, total model of reality.
• XREF: connects to: Baroque art countered rationalism by making knowledge’s incompleteness its value — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 427; Baroque heroism renounces essence-seeking closure in favor of infinite proliferation; A scientific framework’s presuppositions are culturally and historically conditioned — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 148 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• A scientific framework’s presuppositions are culturally and historically conditioned #expands (0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 148
• Foundations of profound scientific knowledge are less secure than their superstructures #corroborates (0.72)