Join us Saturday, April 19th, at Possible Futures for a teach-in on the weapons manufacturing landscape in Connecticut and one of its biggest players in the war machine: Raytheon subsidiary Pratt & Whitney. Refreshments will be served, and masks will be provided and highly encouraged!
Category: Past Event
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Module 6: The Biotechnology Industry
What is the current relationship between the life sciences and capitalism? How does the engineering of life relate to logics within capitalism? How have legal and city dynamics been transformed through the biotechnology industry?
Join us Saturday, April 13th, for the sixth and final module in our political education series “The Social Production of Science” where we’ve been developing a collective analysis on how capitalism dictates the production of science. This module will be held in person (room 107 in the Humanities Quadrangle) and online. Register now to get PDFs of the readings and the zoom link!
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Module 5: The Circulation of Scientific Knowledge
What is scientific knowledge? Is it a commodity? How is it circulated throughout society, and who is included and excluded from this process?
Join us Saturday, February 22nd, for the fifth module in our ongoing political education series “The Social Production of Science” where we’ve been developing a collective analysis on how capitalism dictates the production of science. This module will be held in person (room 107 in the Humanities Quadrangle) and online. Register now to get PDFs of the readings and the zoom link!
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Module 4: What is Science? Part II
Join the New Haven chapter of Science for the People’s Political Education working group as we host the second module of our 12-part monthly series on The Social Production of Science!
In Module Four: What is Science? Part II we will be continue to explore one of the most difficult questions facing the radical science movement. What is science? Our conversation will start to understand the key institutions of science like the Royal Society and the Research University.
We will be reading the following texts:
Chapter 1 of “The Origins of American Science New England” by Dirk J. Struik: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1szfiJc7CNWxlvXJtW6Jv_hqeWS7ZfH7P/view?usp=drive_link
“Toward a History of the Professional: On the Class Composition of the Research University”, by Mark Paschal, Viewpoint Magazine: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oilzObfEhWrpsINcbN_wFepT6gEejOaM/view?usp=drive_link
Chapter 3 of “Not In Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature” by Richard Lewontin, Steve Rose, and Leon Kamin: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qWDWT5EFyZFcOSUf3iSF7zNrY7SmoZ8-/view?usp=drive_link
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Module 3: What is Science? Part I
Join the New Haven chapter of Science for the People’s Political Education working group as we host the second module of our 12-part monthly series on The Social Production of Science!
In Module Three: What is Science? Part I, we will be start to explore one of the most difficult questions facing the radical science movement. What is science? Our conversation will be deeply informed by the idea that science is a labor process.
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Module 2: Science as Proletarianizing and Proletarianized
Join the New Haven chapter of Science for the People’s Political Education working group as we host the second module of our 12-part monthly series on The Social Production of Science!
In Module Two: Science as Proletarianizing and Proletarianized, we will be exploring the role that science had and continues to have in shaping the working conditions of people around the world as well as the working conditions of scientists themselves. Our conversation will continue to deepen our understanding of the labor process in capitalist society and uncover the relationships between science, capitalism, and political struggle.
We will read the following texts, linked below:
Mike Davis, The Stopwatch and the Wooden Shoe: Scientific Management and the Industrial Workers of the World (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A1tiTek9y9idduPDQBABzXNKvOEIsYi-/view?usp=share_link)&source=email&)
Robert Linhart, Taylorism Between the Two Wars: Some Problems (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ATN_ezhFSkESoDRT5rwUS5HgBRO9-DAo/view?usp=share_link)&source=email&)
Ana Soto & Carlos Sonnenschein, The Proletarianization of Biological Thought (https://drive.google.com/file/d/14OFRcY-Jhn0yLjH2Ay4UdLbqWWOQCgJJ/view?usp=sharing)&source=email&)
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Module 1: The Social Production of Science
Join the New Haven chapter of Science for the People’s Political Education working group as we host the first module of our 12-part monthly series on The Social Production of Science!
In this module, we will explore how organismal and human labor (and labor power) is structured under capitalism by our interactions with the environment and how this shapes the capitalist labor process of science, with a view towards building a radical science for the people.
We will read the following texts:
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SftP Magazine: Beyond Binaries Issue Release
Join the Yale Feminist and Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies (fSTS) collective and the New Haven chapter of Science for the People as we help launch the most recent issue of the Science for the People magazine, titled “Beyond Binaries.” The issue focuses on the intersection of gender and science in society, both in the way that science can exploit and weaponize gender, but also advance the concept of gender beyond binaries. We will discuss the following three articles from the issue:
Eugenics is back – in a Range of New Flavors
The Epistemological Politics of Gender: The Neurosexist’s Guide to Weaponized Incompetence
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Climate, Invasion & Development: The Politics of Plant Allies and Foes – A Tour of the Marsh Botanical Garden
How does the organization of society dictate the biodiversity and stability of plant ecosystems? By creating a rift between human labor and its basis in nature, capitalism leads to the deterioration of plant life around the globe. Join SftP-New Haven on a guided tour of the Marsh Botanical Garden to learn about some of the ways that the ecological disasters wrought by capitalism have endangered plant life – and the ways that we can organize to change it! Time will also be allotted for an unstructured exploration of the plant life being housed in the Marsh Botanical Garden. We hope to see you there!
Illustration by Matteo Farinella
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SftP-NHV Presents: Disentangling Science and Militarism
Science for the People (SftP) is an organization of scientists, workers, educators, and activists dedicated to building a bottom-up social movement with radical perspectives on science and society. Check out the following links for info on the organization, the magazine, and the archives!
Join us (the New Haven chapter of SftP) for a discussion on the relationship between science and the global military-industrial complex, and how we can organize to liberate science from the clutches of militarism. We will be reading excerpts from three articles in the most recent issue of the Science for the People magazine, Killing in the Name Of.
Excerpts will be from the following articles:
Science and Imperialism: Scientists as Workers for Peace by Archishman Raju
Lie, Cheat, and Steal: The CIA’s Disastrous Scientific Legacy by Owen Marshall
I Am A Radical and So Are You by Calvin Wu
Snacks provided, and a social event will follow at The Cannon on Dwight St for those interested!
Questions? You can reach the New Haven chapter by email at: nhv@scienceforthepeople.org
Note: building does not have elevator access.