Frederick Taylor's ghost is living through workplace surveillance technologies, automation, and management softwares. Is there a way we transform these technologies toward a liberatory vision?
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We Need Community Control of Technology, Nothing Less
McIlwain's book misses the mark. He proposes that Black Americans use technology to outrun white supremacy, gaining access to white bourgeois society, instead of overthrowing the inherently unjust system of exploitation.
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There’s tar on our hands, / asphalt, pitch, / that carbon-black earth stick / only oil can soften, / then soap. // It came from below...
In 1999, Howard Zinn published Marx in Soho, a play about Karl Marx returning from Heaven to clear his name. The curtain fell in Zinn's imagination. But the story continues here.
Noah Hutton's In Silico documents the rise and fall of the Human Brain Project—a 10-year, billion-euro failed attempt to simulate the human brain. The project's spectacular size serves as a magnifying lens held to the system at large...
We met with organizers of Stop LAPD Spying and the Palestinian Youth Movement to discuss our common struggle against imperialism, the abuse of technology, complicity of scientists and technical workers, as we envision a liberatory future.
Debates about the limitations of natural processing language models and their societal impact are often oversimplified in popular discourse: the algorithms or data are either good or bad. This article distills the technical aspect on the...
Actualmente el software libre está permitiendo que las comunidades indígenas puedan compartir información confiable. Las comunidades indígenas de México han estado luchando por proteger la radiocomunicación, lo que a la vez ayuda a que...
Laboratories are icons of scientific achievement and human progress, but like all historical processes, they are shaped by class conflicts. This article presents a critical history of the lab and plots a future toward socializing our means...
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Lewontin’s life and contributions mark the continuity and a renaissance not only of SftP but of radical science itself. We must remind ourselves that another science is possible through his memory.
What is a Radical Analysis of Science? New Directions for Science for the People By Helen Zhao Volume 22, Number 1, The Return of Radical Science In this first issue of Science for the People (SftP) since 1989, we revisit a foundational...
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A lot has changed in the worlds of science and publishing since Volume 21, Number 2 of Science for the People came off the presses in 1989. Since that last issue, the absence of such a leading voice for radical science has enabled the...
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