A movement in science studies that moves beyond the hermeneutics of suspicion—beyond always asking what power, ideology, or hidden interest lies behind scientific claims. Postcritique doesn't reject critique but supplements it with attention, repair, and reconstruction. It asks not just "what's wrong with this science?" but "what's valuable? What can we build? What should we preserve?" It's science after the deconstruction, after the critique, after the suspicion—still critical, but also constructive, also caring.
"We've spent decades deconstructing this field's biases. Scientific Postcritique says: okay, now what? What's still useful? What do we build next? Critique without reconstruction is just nihilism with better vocabulary."
by Abzugal February 23, 2026
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