Science against capital is an eco-marxist STS research blog. It provides a space for publishing on capitalism, its sciences, technologies and social metabolism. It aims to better understand how capitalism is reproduced and transformed in times of environmental crises.
It is currently maintained by exactly one person with interests that go beyond eco-marxism1, so you can also expect to find writings about connected subjects. The ambition is to become a mixture of Capital as Power, the regretted Carnet Zilsel, and a bit of Revue Terrestre. Quite a challenge you say, we'll see how it goes.
There are 3 types of articles on this blog:
- Papers are regular scientific papers, which have not necessarily been published in academic journals. They're quite long, and are either empirical or prepare the ground for new empirical work (such as literature reviews to refine a research question). They are not peer rewieved because there are good reasons to think it is at best useless.
- Notes are anything shorter and less substantiated than a paper. They allow to quickly publish hypotheses, preliminary research results, opinions, rants. This is where you would find off-topic writings.
- Reviews are short comments about things: a book, seminar, paper, etc. They aim to contribute to a culture of criticism in social sciences without the pitfalls of peer review.
You want to publish something here? We can discuss it on science.against.capital@zohomail.eu
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Including but not limited to: making fun of "radical" approaches to design, complaining about proof standards in social sciences, video games, socio-environmental conflicts, science-fiction, cybernetics, etc. ↩︎