For Marx, capital is the ‘general illumination which bathes all the other colours and modifies their particularity’ (Marx 1973, 107; Bonefeld 1987, 35). Luis Arboledas-Lerida’s “The Gap Between Science and Society and the Intrinsically Capitalistic Character of Science Communication” (2022a)… Read More ›
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Exploitation and the Politics of Knowledge: A Commentary on Arboledas-Lérida’s Marxist Analysis of Science Communication, Part II, Justin Cruickshank
The Feudal University in Neoliberal Times The rise of neoliberalism has meant declining resources from the state and intensified competition. As a consequence of this: casualisation has increased to increase profits or surplus; pressure on staff to ensure the university… Read More ›
Exploitation and the Politics of Knowledge: A Commentary on Arboledas-Lérida’s Marxist Analysis of Science Communication, Part I, Justin Cruickshank
In a recent issue of Social Epistemology, Luis Arboledas-Lérida (2021) developed a Marxist analysis of the requirement universities place on science academics to use social media to promote their research findings, with this being conceptualised as an instance of the… Read More ›
Critique Equals Suffering Plus Society? Towards a New Approach to Critique, Johannes Angermuller
While science is typically expected to be neutral and objective, critical approaches have their established place in the social sciences. All social scientists are aware of the critical difference that their research can or should make in society, and some… Read More ›
Objectification and the Labour of the Negative in the Origin of Human Thinking: A Response to Chris Drain, Kyrill Potapov
After reading the stimulating exchange between Chris Drain (2020; 2021) and Siyaves Azeri (2020; 2021), I wanted to reply to Drain from a slightly different angle. Drain’s latest response (2021) takes aim at what Vygotsky calls his general genetic law… Read More ›
Commands and Collaboration in the Origin of Human Thinking: A Response to Azeri’s “On Reality of Thinking,” Chris Drain
Siyaves Azeri’s “On Reality of Thinking” (2021) is yet another informative contribution to the philosophical deployment of Vygotskian psychology. I’m grateful to Mr. Azeri for taking the time to reply to my comments and for the opportunity to continue this… Read More ›
On Reality of Thinking: A Response to Chris Drain’s “Ideality and Cognitive Development”, Siyaves Azeri
Chris Drain’s response “Ideality and Cognitive Development” (2020) to my “The Match of Ideals” (2020) aims for further analysis of the phylogenesis of conceptual cognition. Drain suggests complementing Vygotsky’s and Leontiev’s accounts of higher mental functions and specifically human consciousness… Read More ›
What is Right and Wrong with Social Engineering? Alexandra A. Argamakova
This article addresses ongoing questions regarding the conception and practice of social engineering. Social engineering appeals to a set of diverse concepts which marks the beginning of professional sociology and scientific management in America and Western Europe. I trace the… Read More ›
Questioning the Epistemology of Decolonise: The Case of Geography, Jim Butcher
Author Information: Jim Butcher, Canterbury Christ Church University, jim.butcher@canterbury.ac.uk. Butcher, Jim. “Questioning the Epistemology of Decolonise: The Case of Geography.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 11 (2018): 12-24. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-42E … Read More ›
Imagining a Different Political Economy, Raphael Sassower
Author Information: Raphael Sassower, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, rsassowe@uccs.edu. Sassower, Raphael. “Imagining a Different Political Economy.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 9 (2018): 7-11. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-40v One cannot… Read More ›