AO: The editors believe that the task of academia is to question the silences that technoscientific politics engender - to parse the values, interests and purposes that so often remain hiddne when objectivity is the criterion of legitimacy.
AO: Editors believe that foregrounding assumptions, frameworks, and terms of reference is important so that readerscan participate in the multiple registers of questioning that are important for strategizing “counter-expertise.
AO: Reflexive critique denatures the counter-experts own descriptions and supports the development of modes of expression through which claims to validity can be made without dependence on the prerogatives of “objectivity.”
