Two Cultures? The Significance of C. P. Snow (1962)

Forty years of movie hacking: considering the potential implications of the popular media representation of computer hackers from 1968 to 2008

“…Their relationship has always been a difficult one, so much so that Lord Snow in his famous 1959 Rede Lecture (Snow, 1959) claimed that there was an irrevocable breakdown between the 'two cultures' of arts and science, and that breakdown was the fundamental cause of most of the world's problems. Although other critics (Leavis, 1962;Huxley, 1963;Brockman, 1995;Gould, 2003) suggest that the gap between the cultures is not unbridgeable, they do emphasise that when science is being represented in the arts, it is not always a faithful representation, just as a portrait isn't always an exact replica of the study. This is especially true of movies, when science is represented in the movies the objective is often to display spectacle and illusion, and not necessarily verisimilitude.…”

On Cultures and Artscience: Interdisciplinarity and Discourses of “Twos” and “Threes” after Snow’s Two Cultures

“…As a result, he got some incensed responses, most famously from English professor F.R. Leavis (1962), who delivered a scathing and personal retort. This, perhaps, contributed to the ensuing discussion being dominated by biased accounts from each side, which served to further polarize the respective parties (Waugh 2009).…”

“…One of the criticisms to Snow's account concerned the lack of clarity as to what he meant by 'culture' (Leavis 1962, Yudkin 1962). …”

Enlightenment and enchantment: Technology and moral limits

“…Snow addressed. Writing at a moment of considerable emphasis on the beneficial social effects of new scientific applications, Snow provoked sharp responses from adversaries and critics such as Leavis [11] and Trilling [12]. However, it is also interesting to compare and contrast Snow with notable figures who wrote shortly before and after he did, such as Lewis [13] and Bronowski [14], and who in many ways expand and enrich the Snow-Leavis debate.…”