"Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings" uses the gut’s microbes as a way of looking deeply into immigrant health and resisting processes of colonization. This multimedia installation illuminates the vibrant materiality of immigrant...
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The role of race in public life has shifted with breakneck speed over the past decade, so it is hardly surprising that two recent books on race and science—Alondra Nelson’s The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation...
Many voices from the socialist, communist, and anarchist movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries challenged “social Darwinist” ideology by suggesting an alternative view of human nature. we must acknowledge that humans are not...
Muchas voces de los movimientos socialistas, comunistas y anarquistas de los siglos XIX y XX desafiaron la ideología «darwinista social» sugiriendo una visión alternativa de la naturaleza humana. Debemos reconocer que los humanos no...
“[Cultural theorist Sylvia] Wynter says we are not Homo sapiens, we are Homo narrans, not the ones who know, but the ones who tell ourselves that we know. She says we therefore have the capacity to know differently. We are word made flesh...
«[La teórica cultural Sylvia] Wynter dice que no somos Homo sapiens, somos Homo narrans, no los que sabemos, sino los que nos decimos que sabemos. Dice que, por lo tanto, tenemos la capacidad de saber de forma diferente. Somos la palabra...
Ruth Hubbard was born in March, 1924 in Vienna. Both her parents were socialists, physicians, and Jews who, after Hitler’s conquest of Austria in 1938, fled to the United States and settled outside of Boston. Hubbard’s academic career...
See the art on the cover of our Winter 2020 issue, Bio-Politics
As activists, we take to heart Foucault’s definition and expand upon it to articulate a new conception of “bio-politics,” so hyphenated to highlight the necessity of productive exchange between science and politics. Our members and members...
Our shared cultural and social context shapes not only our politics, but what we do, say, and even think. Microbiologist Lynn Margulis argued that convention is so powerful, and so comforting, it prevents us from evaluating facts that...