Radical perspectives and movement to change science and society; magazine by @sftporg

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Our final featured article outlines the laboratory as a factory floor alienating workers from 1) their labor, 2) the products of their labor, 3) each other, and 4) human potential. Renu Kumari writes that, “the recent and explosive wave of unionization drives demonstrates that...
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...the scientific workforce is recognizing its collective power.” Kumari argues for organizing that not only manages exploitation, but also “redefine[s] for whom and to what end science is done.” Read “The Scientific Factory Floor” on our website: buff.ly/X397ANm
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Batool Almarzouq offers a critique of the extractivist underpinnings of the open science movement, showing how the language of democratization can be mobilized in ways that reproduce colonial hierarchies and unequal relations of knowledge production: buff.ly/bHGZGcs
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In describing “The Feudal Lords of Science” as “a kind of Bermuda Triangle of scientific publishing, where public money enters but then effectively disappears in an opaque system,” Salem Ghribi traces the funneling of public funds into the for-profit scientific publishing system.
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Read the full article for Ghribi’s call: “publishing must be re-centered as a commons, serving collective progress rather than private gain.” buff.ly/rPc9qYr Support our publishing! Our magazine is produced entirely by volunteers, and all proceeds from subscriptions...
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...and donations support contributors, artists, and the broader work of the organization and its many chapters. Every subscription strengthens our ability to support organizing, education, and solidarity work across the organization.
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On this fiftieth anniversary of the coup d’état that inaugurated the last of Argentina’s military dictatorships, Alejo Stark interviews Dr. Víctor Penchaszadeh on his work using genetics to identify lost grandchildren with the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo: buff.ly/oMEQqTQ
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In this article, authors Eduardo Echeverri López @eduardoechelop and Mireia López-Sánchez Girbén analyze the Cali fund, established in 2024 at COP16 to redistribute the benefits of digital sequence information (DSI) use to biodiversity-rich countries and Indigenous peoples...
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...but as an entirely voluntary mechanism, it “risks normalizing the very injustice at the core of biopiracy–the extraction of genetic resources and knowledge from the Global South without consent nor compensation.” Art by Izara Achamyalesh, read online: buff.ly/KSrrpOR
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Eric Brown describes the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute's complicity in the “Military-Insdustrial-Etc.-Complex” as it enjoyed a 700% increase in DoD funding in the last decade. This increase followed an Arctic Defense Initiative, which “multiplied investments in..
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Mamoru Erina outlines in “The Displacement Engine” the ways in which the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) channels political tension into scientific work in support of international alliances and capital interests: buff.ly/GFydmqD Art by Yuki Murayama
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In “Science as a Battlefield: Knowledge, Capital Accumulation and Class Struggle,” authors Diego Kozlowski, Natsumi S. Shokida, & Carolina Pradier argue that not only is science a necessary tool in the capitalist project, but that all science contributes to capital accumulation.
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Max Soar and Courtney Addison share how Aotearoa New Zealand is gripped by a right-wing coalition government engaged in acts of epistemic destruction that parallel the dismantling of institutions in the US. Read “Defunding Science, Stifling Dissent": buff.ly/MbR7dwo
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In “Who Owns Knowledge?” Alice Malone discusses the rise of the knowledge economy under capitalism and the social and scientific costs of the resulting privatization of scientific knowledge production. Read the full article on our website: buff.ly/u4C5dqx
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We open the Political Economy of Science issue with a piece from Helena Sheehan, in which she challenges us to seriously consider the influence of capitalism on scientific knowledge and methods. Read the article online and support us with a subscription: buff.ly/pdOaQlZ
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Silvio Paone writes "over time, the West became a symbol of health, while everything external to it became a symbol of sickness that needed to be 'cured' or 'isolated'." Read "Us and Them," Illustration by Riccardo La Bella: buff.ly/8F9ijmu
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In "Communicating Knowledge Otherwise," Iñaki Goñi shares examples of "alternative[s] to the hierarchical and extractive models of conventional research communication that we find reflected in technical reports, policy memos, or academic articles." buff.ly/FHHwBxC
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