Authors : Ali Ghasemi

Volume/Issue : Volume 8 - 2023, Issue 5 - May

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8076691

Abstract : The postmodern perspective on science has been shaped as an ignorant of disinterested search for objective knowledge. Postmodernism contains two destructive definitions of science. firstly, science is powerless to produce objective reality being universally applicable and authentic. secondly, science has not been seen as the free interest of local restrains, but it is generated from a hidden hegemonic ideology. Postmodernism is responsible for the prevalent antiscience tendency. The present study seeks to investigate the elements of distrust of science in the movie. Dont Look up directed by Adam McKay in 2021. The film Dont Look up is a satire of scientists endeavors to awakening society’s inaction to climate breakdown. By focusing on postmodern troubled relationship with science and its anti-scientific mindsets, this study seeks to explore the hidden ideology behind the rejection of science. To illuminates these economic, political, scientific hegemonic ideologies, the film Dont Look up is the most accurate replica of the challenge of science in postmodernism for being investigated.

Keywords : distrust of science, don’t look up, postmodernism, denial of science, postmodern condition.