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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoValuing the World, with Mariana Mazzucato | Dissent Magazine2019-10-12T22:17:04+00:00
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/booked-mariana-mazzucato-the-value-of-everything-wealth-innovation-interview
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http://crapfutures.tumblr.com/post/136818232954/constraint-no-4-education
robertogrecoWood makes essential objects, objects for all time. Yet there hardly remain any of these wooden toys…. Henceforth, toys are chemical in substance and colour; their very material introduces one to a coenaesthesis of use, not pleasure. These toys die in fact very quickly, and once dead, they have no posthumous life for the child.
A word of warning to those who would abandon old areas of knowledge and useful materials too quickly."]]>crapfutures 2016 rolandbarthes wood education children durability materials time slow plastic future futures 3dprinting digital digitization 3dadditivism fablabs darpa diy making makermovement economics purpose additivism fablabhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:764101d3f39a/Imperial Designs | The Unforgiving Minute2015-11-19T06:11:00+00:00
http://currion.net/2015/11/imperial-designs/
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https://storify.com/bnwlfsn/maciej-on-the-next-economy-conference
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http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/how-design-fiction-imagines-future-technology/
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http://oscillatorblog.com/post/107220632743/on-democratization
robertogrecoThe democratization of science in fact implied a general and even radical transformation of society. The aim was to reorient science toward the social needs of workers and disadvantaged groups and to fight the vested interest of the establishment and the so-called military-industrial complex. In those early days, the political Left pushed science shops as one means of transforming both science and society in radical ways. Unions, targeting issues such as occupational health, social security, and working conditions; environmentalists; patients’ groups; third-world activists; and, slightly later, women’s liberation groups considered themselves as partners in pursuit of a new and better society.
I read about the science shops for the first time over the holidays in Making Genes, Making Waves, Jon Beckwith’s autobiography about his research in molecular biology and his political activism. Given the current fad for “democratizing science” I was surprised that I’d never heard them mentioned before.
Indeed, today’s democratization looks a lot different from the democratization pushed by science shops and radical science movements of the 70s. Science for the People, an activist group of scientists and engineers founded in the early 1970s, organized against the misuse of science by military and corporate interests and advocated that science work for marginalized people rather than maintaining the status quo. A powerful symbol for the group was a fist raised in solidarity next to a hand holding a flask. Alice Bell notes in a recent article on activist science that, “The fist of solidarity stood in front of the chemist’s flask here, not simply used to hold science up high.”
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Compare that with Science for the People, a Canadian radio program about science, which rebranded in 2013 from “Skeptically Speaking.” Their logo echoes the Science for the People cover image from 1970, but here the fist holds up a test tube—literally holding science up high. In a blog post about their rebrand, the producers discuss what “science for the people” means to them:
We’re about getting the word of something we love to people who might not hear about it anywhere else, in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, they’ll love it a little too. We’re about taking tough scientific concepts and teasing out what matters. We’re about taking the latest in scientific progress and relate it to people like our friends and our families, and our communities, and our society.
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Telling people about your love for science is great, but as Bell notes (referring to the flask-toting fist on the cover of the Geek Manifesto), “Looking back at these earlier radicals, [it] seems to pale to a Che Guevara T-shirt in comparison.”
Other efforts seem similarly pale when you begin to examine their claims about democratization in light of what democratization meant to more political generations of scientists. Like the Science for the People radio program, many of these efforts are focused on the one-way transmission of science from the academy to the public, rather than a radical transformation of science itself to address public interests.
Open access publishing has made it easier to publish and read scientific articles, and is gradually (hopefully) chipping away at the tyranny of the impact factor in academic career advancement. These are worthy goals which I support whole-heartedly—I’ve published most of my papers in open access journals—but making papers open to download doesn’t necessarily make science democratic and open to everyone.
Likewise, recent efforts to get more people involved in scientific research have been branded “citizen science,” but unlike the science shops where the citizens dictated research directions, citizen science projects simply allow non-scientists to volunteer their time collecting or analyzing data for professional researchers. These projects can be great learning experiences, allowing non-scientists to get a better picture of the scientific process, as well as great research experiences, allowing scientists to explore topics that they couldn’t have done without the expanded team. But letting people do free work for you isn’t the same as doing work for people.
In synthetic biology, “democratization” has recently been used as a marketing ploy for companies that are selling DNA or DNA editing software. Cambrian Genomics and Genome Compiler both claim to “democratize creation,” an empty statement that helps drive press coverage and TED invitations in the crowded genetic engineering market. Both companies are selling slightly different, cheaper, or easier to use versions of things that have been sold to molecular biologists for decades, but claiming that their versions will suddenly make it possible for “anyone” to do genetic engineering. Making cheaper and more accessible laboratory tools is great, but it’s worth asking what else is necessary to truly make “creation” accessible (I’m not going to get into the differences between synthesizing DNA and “creating life” here, but suffice it to say that I don’t agree with that part of their phrasing either). There are many other tools, training, and above all a reason to do it that are all necessary in order to make a “creature.” It’s no surprise then that, according to SF Gate, Cambrian currently sells DNA primarily to biotech giants like Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, and Thermo Fisher. If you don’t work to really democratize science, you’re just making cheaper tools for the people who already had access to them. (Also hype, lots of hype.)
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The contemporary projects that seems most like the 70s Dutch science shops are today’s hackerspaces and community labs, where non-expert scientists can explore techno-scientific questions on their own time (and usually on their own dime). While there are a huge variety of projects and educational goals in these spaces, a particular kind of “hacker” has gone mainstream (and even received DARPA funding). Tinkering in a garage is now seen as the first step towards starting the next multibillion dollar Silicon Valley company. Hackerspaces can be the site of anti-establishment thinking, but they are also becoming part of the military-industrial complex.
None of these projects are necessarily bad. By and large, they all point towards a broader positive shift happening in the scientific community towards more transparency, accountability, diversity, and public involvement. But we shouldn’t let something as important as democratization become an empty label. We need to be critical of self-proclaimed democratizers—who is benefitting and who remains left out? Who is calling the shots and who is working for whom? Where does the money come from? How can we do science better?"]]>democratization science history politics 1920s netherlands wetenschapswinkels scienceshops canada scientificallyspeaking transmission citizenscience scientificprocess learning education accessibility hackerspaces communitylabs labs laboratories darpa tinkering makerspaces christinaagapakishttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2aefff1a3edc/Darpa Turns Aging Surveillance Drones Into Wi-Fi Hotspots | Danger Room | WIRED2014-04-20T19:04:16+00:00
http://www.wired.com/2014/04/drones-mobile-hotspots/
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http://demilit.tumblr.com/post/53794165176/the-dark-matter-of-the-security-state
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http://www.superflux.in/blog/newnormal-revisited
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http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/
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http://storify.com/demilit/darpa-and-make-round-up
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http://storify.com/demilit/make-darpa-and-children-a-match-made-in-hackerspac
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http://kottke.org/11/06/the-invention-of-social-computing
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/darpa-wants-to-sniff-your-citys-distinct-chemical-scent/
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http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/osu-and-darpa-building-uav-nano-planes-that-can-fit-in-a-pocket/
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