‘The Chomsky Puzzle’ - includes interviews with Noam Chomsky, Chris Knight and Tom Wolfe
The publication of both Tom Wolfe’s and Chris Knight’s very different critiques of Noam Chomsky led to this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Understanding the Labyrinth: Noam Chomsky's science and politics - Bruce Nevin
A review of Chris Knight, ‘Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics’. Yale University Press, to be published on September 15, 2016
Technological despotism - Ian Tillium
An attempt to analyse technological innovations from a working class perspective in the early 1990s.
Noam Chomsky: reading guide
Noam Chomsky is such a prolific writer that it is hard to know where to start when reading his writings. What’s more, useful criticisms of these writings can be difficult to find among all the largely useless right-wing comments on the internet. So here is a list of Chomsky’s major - largely political - writings followed by a list of the more useful critiques of his thought. Please suggest any others that we've missed.
Goldsmith, Marie: her life and thought
Submitted by Steven. on Oct 26 2015 11:53
Article about Marie Goldsmith/Isidine/Korn that teases out her influence on Peter Kropotkin's ideas, as well as looking at her scientific career and her anarchism.
Ethnology, historical materialism and the dialectical method – Paul Kirchhoff
The world-renowned ethnologist—and former member of the KAPD—explains the basic principles of ethnology, i.e., “the study of classless primitive society”, in this series of lectures delivered at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1938-1939.
Race, education, intelligence: a teacher's guide to the issues
A late 1970s pamphlet from the National Union of Teachers on the bankruptcy of IQ studies and the biologizing of 'race'.
Contemporary agriculture: climate, capital, and cyborg ecology
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Jul 17 2015 10:38
Climate change will put pressure on world food production. We must disentangle the potential benefits of agricultural science and technology from agribusiness' centralised control of the food chain.
Elisée Reclus and the city without limits – José Ardillo
A 2014 critical review of two essays on Elisée Reclus published in 2013, focusing on his somewhat ambivalent views on the city (e.g., he thought that the vast stockyards and slaughterhouse complexes of the Chicago meat industry of 1900 comprised a “model for the mechanization of meat production that should be extended to other cities and countries”), the problematic of how these views fit into his overall theoretical perspective (he was a world-famous libertarian geographer), and the extent to which they are still relevant for our time.
