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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"In this issue our contributorsengage, in their different ways, with questions of subjectivity from within the Marxian problematic. From its very inception, Rethinking Marxism has been interested in exploring questions of subjectivity without falling into either the essentialist constructions of theoretical humanism or the determinist formations of theoretical structuralism. But the question of subjectivity has been central to Marxist thought from the very beginning. It is possible to trace the displacement of the problematic in Marx’s own writings from a standpoint of alienation and estrangement to that of exploitation and the division of mental and manual labor, from ideology to the fetishism of commodities. Again, in Lenin’s theory of corruption under imperialism and his insistence on the necessity of cultural revolution, the questions of subjectivity, if not formulated in this language, were central concerns. Lukàcs’s foregrounding of class consciousness under conditions of reification, Mao’s revolutionary political pedagogy, “from the masses, to the masses”; Adorno’s sustained engagement with fascism and the irrational beyond the collapse of Nazi Germany; Fanon’s writings on the psychic overdetermination of race, sexuality, and class under conditions of colonialism; Althusser’s materialist treatment of ideology in the context of the advanced capitalist state; E. P. Thompson’s historiography of the making of working-class consciousness; all are part of this persistent Marxist problematic around the question of the constitution of revolutionary subjectivity under capitalism and the subversion of that subjectivity by fascist currents that are, if not initially rallied, eventually welcomed by threatened capitalist classes."

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

#Marxism#CriticalTheory#Subjectivity
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Wear a Fucking Respirator, MD

Two top notch Blood Pattern Analysis articles by ProPublica:

"Julie Rea was convicted of killing her son largely on the testimony of bloodstain-pattern analysts. She was later acquitted and exonerated, joining a growing community of Americans wrongly convicted with bad science."

propublica.org/article/bloodst

"How a Dubious Forensic Science Spread Like a Virus:

From his basement in upstate New York, Herbert MacDonell launched modern bloodstain-pattern analysis, persuading judge after judge of its reliability. Then he trained hundreds of others."

features.propublica.org/blood-

ProPublicaBloodstain Analysis Convinced a Jury She Stabbed Her 10-Year-Old Son. Now, Even Freedom Can’t Give Her Back Her Life.Julie Rea was convicted of killing her son largely on the testimony of bloodstain-pattern analysts. She was later acquitted and exonerated, joining a growing community of Americans wrongly convicted with bad science.
#Pseudoscience#Subjectivity#forensics
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jan
“For centuries, scientists viewed the world as a collection of objects interacting with each other but independent of the observer, and for this reason any hints of the subjective were criticized and rejected. However, since the beginning of the twentieth century, with such landmark achievements as quantum mechanics, general relativity, and Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, science has been teaching us that we can’t really disentangle the observer and the observed. Thus, the taboo of the first-person perspective was lifted and gradually, more scientists started to pay attention to it. However, there is still a long way to go for us scientists to welcome and integrate the subjective and the first-person perspective into our science-informed worldview. Furthermore, I think we urgently need to do that today precisely because of the challenges posed by AI safety issues.”
—Edward Frenkel, AI Safety: A First-Person Perspective
#ai #safety #science #objectivity #subjectivity
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Sean Patrick, Ph.D. 
The world that’s filtered through a sensor
is more than just a sterile tensor:
for all the truths in what’s outside,
the lies en route can’t be denied.

You sit behind your brain, I fear,
and every sense that you hold dear
is filtered through a lump of fat
while neuropeptides have a chat.

By the time a thing’s in your awareness
(that sense of conscious being-there-ness)
the world without’s been warped and twisted
by worlds within that once existed.

The things that you could swear are real
are mere veneers of what you feel:
the only truth you’ll ever know
is writ in what makes ions go –
and everything you’ve ever seen
has left a trail of dopamine.

Objective truth is nonexistent,
you’ve but the world that’s most consistent
with stimuli that came and went.
Don’t trust the world that’s evident,
for every rule’s a neural trick
and life is full of surprises.

https://seanpatrick.phd/2024/02/24/filter/

Sean Patrick, Ph.D. · Filter…objective truth is nonexistent…
#cognition#poem#poetry
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Esther de Groot

“She drew our attention to language, #metaphors, gender and #subjectivity, and showed that these were relevant to science. Although Keller was sometimes mistakenly seen as a critic of science, she succeeded in her goal: to articulate fairer and better ways of living and doing science.” nature.com/articles/d41586-023

www.nature.comEvelyn Fox Keller (1936–2023), philosopher who questioned gender roles in scienceMathematical biologist, philosopher and historian of science who challenged the vision of science as a masculine activity.
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