The Political & Ethical Stakes of Radical Realism
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Anarchist and activist William Gillis is joined by the mathematical physicist Matilde Marcolli to discuss Gillis' new book about a conflict between postmodernists and scientists in the 80s and 90s, and its lasting influences.
Did The Science Wars Take Place? returns to an infamous conflict across radical subcultural spaces and academia to examine its lingering influence on the left and the right today, with an eye towards what anarchists and activists can take away. Simultaneously a gossipy account of historical drama among radicals and a studious engagement within contemporary philosophy of science, it provides a discursive autopsy and political analysis that will surprise most readers.
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