From the Fields to the Stars!: Sputnik, Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination
For our 100th episode, we go back to our roots. Djamil, Virginia and Rudy sit down to discuss the launch of Sputnik, using Asif A. …
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Knowledge Democratization, Bourgeois Specialists and the Organization of Science in the Early Soviet Union
For the first installment of our in-depth study of Soviet Science, Djamil, Donald and Rudy sit down to discuss the scientific institutions and the practice …
Unmasking Social Construction with Djamil Lakhdar
Donald and Rudy are joined by Djamil Lakhdar to discuss Ian Hacking’s book The Social Construction of What?. Written during the “science wars”, Hacking intervenes …
The Situation in India and How it Has Gotten Here
Statement by By Zenab Ahmed, Rohith Krishnan, and Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina on the pogrom in India. The Pogrom Last week, Hindu nationalist mobs spent days ripping …
In Defense of the Labor Theory of Value
Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina examines the labor theory of value and references philosophy of science to defend it from critics. Features a reading guide to works on …