The Scientific Sublime: Popular Science Unravels the Mysteries of the Universe

Abstract

brate in the service of a more nuanced memory of the late sixties that affirms the role of grassroots struggle in social change and critiques the forces of institutional violence that necessitated such militancy in the first place. Hoerl’s The Bad Sixties is essential reading for scholars, students, and activists interested in the politics of public memory, the history of the 1960s, as well as best practices in rhetorical and media criticism. Hoerl’s critical eye is a careful one, and she accentuates the ways her case studies operated in a broader historical conjuncture in ways that make the stakes of representation and memory palpable. Indeed, a reader would be hard pressed to finish reading this book unconvinced that the politics of memory have material consequences for historically marginalized bodies and communities engaged in the labor of social protest.