Seeing things:
‘Seeing things’, so often had been connected to believing – as to convince ‘to see’, to fulfil the thought of a proof within visibility, which then in itself seems to be evidence enough. Thus keeping in mind that problems of scientific method/research were problems of history or better were historical phenomena, and are equally connected to the social, I refer to some quotation from an excerpt of N.Luhmann [1]:
Advances in substantial theory may have side effects on the theories that are supposed to control the research. Until the eighteenth century these problems were assigned to religion – the social system that specialized in tackling paradoxes. We have retained this possibility, but the normalization of paradoxes in modern art and modern science seems to indicate our desire to eventually get along without religion. Apparently our society offers the choice either to trust religion or to work off our own paradoxes without becoming aware that this is religion.

Today in western societies the creation of knowledge/ information is dominated by the logic belonging to a predominantly scientific view onto the world. In regards of the research of M.Foucault, which showed that relations of knowledge definitely are involved in relations of power, its all over impact on social constitution is evident. ‘The carceral network constituted one of the armatures of this network of power-knowledge that has made the human sciences historically possible’[2]. Nevertheless information is regarded as a social good, ignoring the awareness that the utopian desire to be ‘in the known’ never can be fulfilled. In my analysis I will try to reveal a self-constituting and self-referential setting of scientific vision, which can be implied in a paranoid formation, so to be seen at the example of Latour’s research.

[1] Essays on Self-reference, Luhmann N., p.16/17
[2] Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Foucault M., p.350