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2002-10-10 Thread Carl Remick
From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joanna writes: A critique of the development of science under capitalism would take much more than an email. Suffice it to say that what we refer to as SCIENCE today is a specific historical form suffering from specific historical deformations. I leave it

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2002-10-10 Thread joanna bujes
At 05:12 PM 10/10/2002 +, you wrote: Again, I believe it's the nature of science itself -- not just the corruptive effects of capitalism -- that so often causes technology to have a destructive, dehumanizing impact on society. The ever increasing specialization of scientific knowledge

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2002-10-09 Thread joanna bujes
At 06:01 PM 10/09/2002 +, you wrote: From: joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 02:41 PM 10/09/2002 +, you wrote: That's the horror of it all. As Huxley suggested in Brave New World, there doesn't seem to be any choice between the dehumanization of science and reversion to simple

RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality

2002-10-09 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31184] Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality Joanna writes: A critique of the development of science under capitalism would take much more than an email. Suffice it to say that what we refer to as SCIENCE today is a specific historical form suffering from specific

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2002-10-08 Thread Carrol Cox
Ian Murray wrote: Like I said in advance, the question was a simple one; the notion that it has a simple answer is ridiculous given that you did not answer it Yes I did: I said that it is not a legitimate question, and therefore has no answer, simple or complicated. When it

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2002-10-08 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes I did: I said that it is not a legitimate question, and therefore has no answer, simple or complicated. When it comes up as a legitimate question, it would come up in the course of collective practice, and would be

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2002-10-08 Thread Michael Perelman
Come on, cool it everybody. On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:46:03PM -0700, Ian Murray wrote: - Original Message - From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes I did: I said that it is not a legitimate question, and therefore has no answer, simple or complicated. When it comes up as a