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Living theory #2: What would a revolutionary research agenda look like?
2:00pm
Saturday December 4 2010
Venue: Bloomfield Centre, room 208
Address: 2786 Agricola Street
Cost: FREE ... but welcome donations (50 cents ... dollar ...) to help with room costs
Conflicted whether your time in the academy is well spent? Embarassed to go out in your labcoat because you're unsure if the the people outside of the ivory tower give a damn about what you're doing, maybe even give you dirty looks?? Afraid that one day someone like Jonathan Swift (author of Gulliver's Travels) will make satire out of your experience??? Are you seeking answers to these and other such burning questions???? Well, this might just be the thing for you!
Living Theory #2
What is the role of scientific research in revolutionary movements? Can science be liberatory? What would a revolutionary research agenda look like? In this installment of Living Theory, health policy PhD student Andrea Smith aims to provoke discussion of why we ought to be critical of calls for more scientific research. Exploring Marx’s ideas of materialism and science, we'll examine how the world we live in shapes the types of research questions we pose (and which we answer) and the way we answer them (and which answers are considered legitimate). Using health research as a case example we’ll discuss how defining health as a scientific problem obscures its moral, political and economic dimensions.
About Living Theory -
These are discussions about topics that affect our lives, trying to understand how capitalist social relations play out into every sphere, and what effect this has on us and the rest of society. The project is coordinated by Asaf Rashid - handsofnothing@gmail.com
Organizer:asaf@nspirg.org
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Comments
"Intellectuals are at once
Submitted by Andony Melathopoulos (not verified) on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 12:52.
"Intellectuals are at once beneficiaries of a bad society, and yet those on whose socially useless work it largely depends whether a society emancipated from utility is achieved — this is not a contradiction acceptable once and for all and therefore irrelevant. It gnaws incessantly at the objective quality of their work. Whatever the intellectual does, is wrong. He experiences drastically and vitally the ignominious choice that late capitalism secretly presents to all its dependants: to become one more grown-up, or to remain a child. . . . Intelligence is a moral category."- Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69), Minima Moralia (1944-47)
"Intellectuals are at once
Submitted by Andony Melathopoulos (not verified) on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 12:52.
"Intellectuals are at once beneficiaries of a bad society, and yet those on whose socially useless work it largely depends whether a society emancipated from utility is achieved — this is not a contradiction acceptable once and for all and therefore irrelevant. It gnaws incessantly at the objective quality of their work. Whatever the intellectual does, is wrong. He experiences drastically and vitally the ignominious choice that late capitalism secretly presents to all its dependants: to become one more grown-up, or to remain a child. . . . Intelligence is a moral category."- Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69), Minima Moralia (1944-47)
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