science

Steven. — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:04:34 +0000

Science - further reading guide

Steven. — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:54:28 +0000

a. Biology
*Richard Lewontin/Richard Levins/Stephen Rose/Leon Kamin:
Dialectical Biologist - Lewontin/Levins
Biology Under the Influence - Lewontin/Levins
Not in Our Genes - Lewontin/Rose/Kamin
Towards A Liberatory Biology - Rose, Ed.
The Making of Memory - Rose
The Science and Politics of I.Q. - Kamin
The Conscious Brain - Rose

Psychology - further reading guide

Steven. — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:37:02 +0000

Sigmund Freud:
The Complete Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
The Ego and Id
Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis
The Future of an Illusion
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
On Dreams
An Outline of Psychoanalysis
Totem and Taboo
Civilization and Its Discontents
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Beyond The Pleasure Principle
The Interpretation of Dreams

Wilhelm Reich:

The medicalisation of everyday life

xConorx — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:37:33 +0000

[b]His critiques of the health system, pharmaceutical industry, and consumer health fads are extremely relevant - his focus on social factors, economic inequalities, and rejection of reductionist medicalising and/or individualising of what are essentially social/collective issues is pretty consistent with any critique class-struggle anarchists could produce.

Scientists challenge copyright regulations

xConorx — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:52:14 +0000

A group of physicists last month challenged the American Physical Society after the APS withdrew two articles, the authors of which indicated an intention to publish some of the work on online-encyclopaedia Wikipedia

The commoditization of science

captain soap — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:00:25 +0000

They discuss the implications this has for scientific research, and the influence of bourgeois ideology on the thinking of scientists. The essay is taken from their 1985 book, The Dialectical Biologist.

1973: The Skylab 4 mutiny

Joseph K. — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:19:53 +0000

Class war in space - The Skylab 4 mutiny

Kropotkin was no crackpot - Stephen Jay Gould

Joseph K. — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:31:50 +0000

Well-known evolutionary biologist/science historian Stephen Jay Gould defends Kropotkin's famous thesis that co-operation and mutual aid are at least as important as competition in an evolutionary sense.