Presque 9 ans après la précédente, je vous soumets cette devinette estivale. Qui a écrit cette abîme, cynique, de sociologie des sciences (en VO) :

The question of what institutional and economic and political interests actually benefited from social science research into science was itself a small but thriving area of social science research, and the question of who benefited from that research was a smaller area still. The one researcher who had taken the next logical step and investigated who benefited from research into research into research into research had concluded that the only beneficiary of his research was himself, a result so significant that its publications had ensured him a professorship at the University of Edinburgh.

J’attends de lire vos idées en commentaires :-) (moteurs de recherche interdits !)

[MàJ 18/08] : Il s’agit du roman de science-fiction dystopique Intrusion, de Ken MacLeod. Une des personnages y mène une thèse en sociologie des sciences, l’auteur ayant été inspiré par son séjour comme writer in residence dans l’unité de recherche ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum à l’université d’Edimbourg. On y trouve également cette réflexion :

And, of course, she was keeping a careful record of her own activities, for possible future use. I’ll take reflexiviy to a whole new level! she’d said. The political economy of the promise of the political economy of the promise of promise!