Posts tagged: science

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  Potential Prehistory

  Historian of science Lukas Rieppel considers the connections between geology, prehistory, and imperialism, as part of the "Unlearning Imperialism" Verso roundtable.

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  The Revenge of the Real: a Letter from the Editor

  Can we rethink biopolitics–the questions of life and death–in the long shadow of COVID and climate change?

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  Tear gas: from the battlefield to the streets

  In this excerpt from Tear Gas, Anna Feigenbaum describes the history of the Himsworth Report, used by governments around the world to justify the use of tear gas.

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  Geoengineering and Environmental Capitalism: Extractive Industries in the Era of Climate Change

  Geoengineering schemes — still largely hypothetical — not only fail to address the underlying causes of climate change; they carry their own profound political, economic, and ecological risks. 

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  The Secret History of Marxist Alien Hunters

  Proponents of the minor tradition of Marxist ufology viewed UFO investigation as part of the scientific and intellectual attempt to overcome alienation and create a truly free and equal society.

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  The Challenge to Science (1984)

  Our vision of nature is undergoing a radical change toward the multiple, the temporal, and the complex.

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  Man as Idea (1939)

  Idealism appears in bourgeois philosophy to oppose itself to mechanism, and in a certain sense it does. But if we look into concrete living, we see that both are generated simultaneously.

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  The Future (1929)

  How is it possible to examine the future scientifically?

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  Introduction to Marxism and the Philosophy of Science

  Helena Sheehan introduces her survey of the philosophies of science developed during Marxism's first century. 

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  For a Marxist Poetics of Science: An Interview with Esther Leslie

  In this career-spanning interview with George Souvlis, Esther Leslie discusses Walter Benjamin, animated film, the history of color, the Historical Materialism project, and the commemoration of the revolutionary past. 

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  Red Scientist: Two Strands from a Life in Three Colours

  An exploration of Bernal's contribution to the politicization of science and scientists, above all the development of the Social Relations of Science movement.

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  Between Nature and Society: Introductions to On Materialism

  Timpanaro launches a polemic against the two major tendences of post-war Western Marxism — Frankfurt School critical theory and Althusserian structuralism — and a defense of the late Engels in an effort to reunite historical materialism with a materialism of the natural sciences, inspired by the writings of Giacomo Leopardi.