Writing in 2006 about the fraudulent memoirist James Frey, whose partially fabricated account of his struggles with addiction came to be seen as a high point of narcissism during the era's memoir craze, she connected Frey's slippery personal revisionism to broader cultural trends eroding the value of objectivity and truth.
Objectivity and realism in the documentary movement shared the cognitive and political value of objectivity or factuality we have seen in modernism, socialism, scientism and logical empiricism.
"We felt, 'Shouldn't we have a vision?' We felt a need to revisit essential core values of impartiality, objectivity".
The idea was that foreign elites who adopted the values of science – objectivity, internationalism, the free exchange of information – would be more receptive to American overtures more generally.
Feminist standpoint theory is often contrasted to feminist empiricism as an alternative epistemology for addressing concerns about the role of values and questions of objectivity.
To illustrate his point, Feyerabend compares the defenders of a strong, value-free notion of objectivity to scientists who stick to the concepts of absolute length and time in spite of the Theory of Relativity.
Derived from the Bauhaus aesthetic of mass production, design embodied the values of standardization, normativity, objectivity and reason.
Siôn Simon, the minister for creative industries, said the panel would oversee the assessment of bids against criteria of objectivity, value for money, innovation, public benefit, and adherence to official procurement policies.
We see the compatibility of values and objectivity in many cases in psychiatry.
