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From C4SS by William Gillis

Original title: "Did The Science Wars Take Place: The Political & Ethical Stakes of Radical Realism"

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Today, one faction of reactionaries denounce leftists as enemies of science, while another faction of reactionaries happily embrace that same role, attacking science as totalitarian. Words like “postmodernism” and “relativism” get thrown about with fervor but little clarity, echoes of a conflict from decades ago.

Is there actually a physical world and can we know anything about it?

Did academics on the left influence “post-truth” politics on the right?

How could supposed defenders of “science” get lost in a mire of transphobia?

Did The Science Wars Take Place? returns to an infamous conflict across radical subcultural spaces and academia in the 80s and 90s 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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PREVIEW CHAPTER: Ch 11: Fundamentalism Among The Warriors

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Releases later in August, depending upon exact print shipping.

Comments

anon (not verified) Thu, 08/07/2025 - 16:31

the fact that Gillis thinks he knows something and has no sense of humor about perhaps not knowing all of said thing is all fnord

anon (not verified) Sat, 08/09/2025 - 08:27

God damn does this look boring and pointless, with a horribly meandering writing style. Who is funding C4SS? Who’s reading this stuff?

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