Scienza e potere in Giorgio Prodi

It is a truism to state that nowadays power depends on science, in its maintenance, as well as in its applications, even the most basic and daily. It is a truism, indeed, that does not account for the peculiar relationship existing between science and power, and it cannot explain, in particular, the long history of the subordination of science to power, which is a history that repeats itself, as Guy Debord noted, every time science is no longer asked to understand the world, or to improve our view, but to instantly justify anything that happens. Giorgio Prodi’s 1972 article entitled Scienza e potere (“Science and Powerµ) in its own way addresses these issues, inviting us to conceive science as a counter-power.