From: L-Soft list server at St. John's University (1.8c) To: Ian Pitchford Subject: File: "SCI-CULT LOG9608" Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 12:24 PM ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 07:54:51 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Applied Philosophy Workshops THE SOCIETY FOR APPLIED PHILOSOPHY London Workshops 1996- 97 The Society for Applied Philosophy holds workshops on the first Saturday of each month in Autumn and Spring terms. They take place from 2.30 - 5.30pm in room 304, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, WC1. The nearest underground stations are Goodge Street and Russell Square. ALL ARE WELCOME 5th October 1996 PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELLING: WHAT IS ITS FUTURE? Speakers: Colin Clayton, Face to Face Dasein. and Mike Parker, Department of Health and Social Welfare, the Open University. Convenor: Colin Clayton, Face to Face Dasein, Shirley Holms, Lymington, Hampshire, SO41 8NH. Tel: 01590 683454. 2nd November 1996 FOOD FOR THOUGHT: RISK, KNOWLEDGE AND THE BSE CRISIS. Speakers: Peter Dickens, School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex and Brian Wynne, Centre for Environmental Change, University of Lancaster. Convenor: Jenneth Parker, 10 Emmanuel Road, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 3LB. Tel: 01424 432792. 7th December 1996 EUROPEAN IDENTITY, EUROPEAN RIGHTS Speakers to include: Matthew Humphreys, Anglia Polytechnic University and Paula Cohen DHSS. Convenor: Matthew Humphreys, Department of Law, Anglia Polytechnic University, East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT. Tel: 01223 63271 ext. 2567. 1st February 1997 MEDIA ETHICS AND REGULATION Speakers to include: Matthew Kieran, University of Leeds and Stephen Whittle, Director of the Broadcasting Standards Council. Convenor: Matthew Kieran, Centre for Business and Professional Ethics, Departments of Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT. Tel: 0113 233 3275 1st March 1997 ETHICS, ECOLOGY AND ELEPHANTS: TENSIONS BETWEEN ANIMAL WELFARE AND CONSERVATION. Speakers to include: Kate Rawles, Lancaster University. Convenor: Kate Rawles, Department of Philosophy, Furness College, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YG. Tel: 01524 592500. Fax: 01524 592503. e-mail Kawles@lancaster.ac.uk. REGIONAL WORKSHOPS LANCASTER VALUES AND THE ENVIRONMENT Series 8 This annual series of 'out of town' Saturday seminars will be continuing into its eighth year with six meetings on 19th October, 16 November, 7th December, 1st February, 22nd February and 15th March. Meetings will be held in Bowland College Senior Common Room from 10am to 1pm. Speakers will include Brian Goodwin on Life at the Edge of Chaos and Susan Canney and Kate Rawles on Conservation and Animal Welfare Issues in Africa. Further details from Kate Rawles on numbers above. LEEDS MEDIA ETHICS: PRIVACY, PUBLIC INTEREST AND CENSORSHIP 20TH-21ST September. Separate message to follow. CARDIFF Details of these workshops are available from Andrew Edgar, Philosophy Section, SESJP, University of Wales College of Cardiff, PO Box 94, Cardiff, CF1 3XE. If you would like further information about these workshops or about the Society for Applied Philosophy please contact Mike Parker at his e-mail address which is m.parker@open.ac.uk __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 11:31:25 +0200 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Hobson Sherren Subject: YoungGramsciSisyphus This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------540B74953ABE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I got the address wrong first try, hope this "forward" facility works OK ... --------------540B74953ABE Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <3209B319.651E@sesam.it> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 11:27:53 +0200 From: Hobson Sherren X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/715) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: scienc-as-culture@SJUVM.stjohns.edu Subject: YoungGramsciSisyphus Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What, even the Australians all on holiday?! There's a deafening silence in this part of cyberspace. I, too, am away on holiday after tomorrow, so I hope you'll excuse me if I insist on tugging at a thread that hasn't been picked up: I shall then join the silent majority... I don't know if net etiquette permits this kind of citation, but here goes: My favourite version of Bob Young's point about Darwin's metaphor is the following: > I am arguing that at the heart of science lies metaphor - a concept > usually associated with literature, especially poetry. We think of > science as literal but at its heart lie figures of speech, in this case > the idea that nature selects rather like a breeder or a deity. > > Darwin is not alone in this kind of thinking. On the contrary, he > points out that 'affinity' and other scientific concepts are no more or > less scientific than his. The same thing applies to all basic concepts > in science. The other candidate for Britain's greatest scientist, Isaac > Newton, derived the concept of gravity from gravitas: affinity, natural > selection, gravity - all these are metaphors drawn from ideas of human > nature and projected on to nature as a way of seeing things and > providing a framework for a philosophy of science. Not all such > projections turn out to be so fruitful, but that doesn't set facts > apart from values or literal statements apart from metaphors. The > history of scientific ideas, like the history of other ideas, is a > moving army of metaphors - some more general than others, but > literalness is the enemy of scientific progress. and can be found in CHARLES DARWIN: MAN AND METAPHOR @ http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/psysc/staff/rmyoung/papers/paper7.html which seems to have been visited only 14 times since May 30. It was published in Science as Culture 5:71-86, 1989 ... but I gather that not everyone out there is yet a subscriber ... I cite this to explain my interest in the passage from Gramsci,taken from his Notebook 11: the famous notebooks written in Italian fascist prisons, between 1929 and 1935. The passage I wanted to share with you was written in the context of a critique of N. Bucharin's 1921 Theory of Historical Materialism, which Gramsci probably read in the French version: La theorie du materialisme historique. Manuel populaire de sociologie marxiste. In particular, here, he is writing under the heading "L'immanenza e la filosofia della praxis" (Immanence and the philosophy of praxis, i.e. marxism) - but makes the following general observation, which seems to me central to our discussion of science-as-culture: <> I recommend reading this whole section, which concludes with the more famous affermation: <> Remembering his earlier emphasis: <>, I feel the gramscian view is still very useful to our consideration of scientific facts, theories, values and world views. Coming back to Bob Young's formulation: I note the phrase "all these are metaphors drawn from ideas of human nature and projected on to nature as a way of seeing things and providing a framework for a philosophy of science". The phrase "projected on to" I take to be a useful metaphor which points to a mathematical metaphor for "metaphor". Metaphors - or rather analogies - are like homomorphisms: mathematical mappings, functions. The mathematical terms "mapping" and "function" are themselves clearly metaphorical. Like homomorphisms, metaphors are relations: i.e. you read them 'both ways round' ... homomorphisms are like analogies ... Let's apply Gramsci's and Young's observations to mathematical physics and maths: the language of the universally-subjective "world-out-there" ... As Bob continues to quote Camus, I can't help adding that Sisyphus can probably be heard to sing snatches of 60's and 70's songs like "Still crazy after all these years" and, some way up the slope, "Standing next to a mountain ... chop it down with the edge of my hand ... pick up all the pieces and make an island ...' etc. And happy or not, I think we must imagine him sweating. Ciao a tutti. --------------540B74953ABE-- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 13:29:12 EST Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: "Dr. Patrick W. Hamlett, MDS" Subject: More STS links... X-To: HOPOS-L@lsv.uky.edu, htech-l@sivm.bitnet, sts@cctr.umkc.edu I have added several new STS-related links to my PSTS NEXUS Home Page: Two links to the Sokal Affair ("The Sokal Affair" & "Alan Sokal Articles"), both of which contain Sokal's original _Social Text_ piece, plus commentaries Two Unabomber links ("Unabom Information Center" & "Unabomber: Tightening the Net"), both of which contain The Manifesto and various commentaries The European Association for the Study of Science & Technology (EASST) The OTA Legacy, with links to all of OTA reports from 1974 - 1995 The EnvironWest Research Database, with scientific, social, & ethical analyses of environmental issues in the western US _Issues in Science & Technologgy_ Home Page, with archives of past articles These sites can be visited from the STS LINKS sub-page on PSTS NEXUS, at the following URL: http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/chass/mds/psts.html I continue to seek URLs for STS syllabi, course materials, etc. Cheers, Hamlett ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 06:34:47 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: _Science as Culture_ no. 25 has appeared _SCIENCE AS CULTURE_ Volume 5, Part 4 (No. 25) has appeared in the US and will soon elsewhere. I very much hope that all subscribers to the forum will support the journal by subscribing and contributing to it. Let us know your ideas for projects for the journal, volunteer to review, send news and notes, send articles and reviews for the web site. Give a subscription to a friend or colleague. Get your institution's library to subscribe. We need your support and appreciate it greatly. CONTENTS 'The water closet: public and private meanings' by Marja Gastelaars 'Sex in the age of virtual reality' by Slavoj Zizek 'Naming the heavens: a brief history of earthly projections, Part I: nativizing Hellenic science' by Scott L. Montgomery 'Farm pollution as environmental crime' by Philip Lowe _et al_. 'Contested expertise: plant biotechnology and social movements' by Derrick Purdue Reviews: _Media Freedom: The Contradictions of Communications in the Age of Modernity_ by Richard Barbrook, reviewed by John Barker _Contested Technology: Ethics, Risk and Public Debate_, edited by Rene von Schomberg, reviewed by Alison J. Hill _Juvenile Violence in a Winner-Loser Culture_ by Oliver James, reviewed by Vincenzo Ruggiero _SaC_ 26 will include: 'Reducing AIDS risk: a case of mistaken identity?' by Simon Carter 'The Californian Ideology' by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron 'A spoonful of blood: Haitians, racism and AIDS' by Laurent Dubois 'Naming the heavens: a brief history of earthly projections, Part II: nativizing Arab science' by Scott L. Montgomery _SaC_ 27 will include: 'The corporate suppression of inventions, conspiracy theories and an ambivalent American dream' by Stephen DeMeo 'Death comes alive: technology and the re-conception of death' by Karen Cerulo and Janet Ruane 'Inoculating gadgets against ridicule' by Mike Michael 'Sperm stories: romantic, entrepreneurial and environmental narratives about treating male infertility' by Kirsten Dwight In future issues: 'Designing flexibility: science and work in the age of flexible accumulation' by Emily Martin 'Healthy bodies, healthy citizens: the anti-secondhand smoke campaign' by Roddy Reid 'Israel's first test-tube baby' byDaphna Birenbaum Carmeli 160pp. _Science as Culture_ is published quarterly by Process Press Ltd. in Britain: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gpp/process.html and Guilford Publications Inc. in North America: info@guilford.com. For information about subscriptions and a list of back issues (half pri9ce to subscribers), go to: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gpp/process.html#science The journal has an associated email forum: science-as-culture@sjuvm.stjohns.edu. To join, send message To: listserv@sjuvm.stjohns Body of message: SUB SCIENCE-AS-CULTURE yourfirstname yourlastname A web site associated with the journal and forum holds articles from back issues of the journal, as well as submissions under consideration (not obligatory), whose authors may benefit from constructive comments for purposes of revisions before the hard copy is printed, as well as longer piece not suitable for the email format which forum members may wish to discuss: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 15:28:13 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Book Announcement for science-as-culture This is a book which readers of science-as-culture might find of interest. For more information see: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/ronaldl/horst.html http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/mitp/recent-books/cog/hench.html _Catching Ourselves in the Act: Situated Activity, Interactive Emergence, Evolution, and Human Thought_ by Horst Hendriks-Jansen This book presents a philosophical and methodological critique of current cognitive science and puts forward an alternative explanatory framework based on situated robotics, ethology, and recent discoveries in developmental psychology. It suggests that human infants are born with species-typical activity patterns that have evolved to engage the attention of adults, seduce them into intentional interpretations of the infant s behavior, and in this way establish the patterns of interaction that are essential to early development. Situated activity and interactive emergence are concepts that derive from the new discipline of autonomous agent research. The book puts these notions on a firm philosophical basis and uses them to anchor a genetic or historical explanation of mental phenomena. A thorough overview of the new discipline is provided and its foundational issues are discussed, revealing methodological affinities between situated robotics and ethology that allow the natural kinds of the proposed explanatory framework to be grounded through natural selection. A Bradford Book July 1996 ISBN 0-262-08246-2 367 pp. US $35.00. UKL22.50 The MIT Press*55Hayward Street*Cambridge, MA 02142*617.625.8569 __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 12:55:49 BST Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Richard Hull Organization: Manchester University and UMIST Subject: SciCult - [FWD] 'Capitalism & Info Age' Forwarded from CPSR-Global. Sender: mreview@igc.apc.org Response to Carol Rimmer's request for info. from Renee Pendergrass. The summer issue of Monthly Review entitled Capitalism and the Information Age includes the following articles: The Global Struggle for Democratic Communication by Robert McChesney Modernity, Postmodernity, or Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood Virtual Capitalism: The Political Economy of the Information Highway by Michael Dawson and John Bellamy Foster Privatization of Telecommunications by Nicholas Baran World Wide Wedge: Division and Contradiction in the Global Information Infrastructure by Peter Golding Democracy and the New Technologies by Ken Hirschkop Work, New Technology, and Capitalism by Peter Meiksins The Propaganda Model Revisited by Edward Herman These articles reveal how th enew technologies have been "grafted onto a global capitalist system characterized by vast and growing inequality, economic stagnation, market saturation, financial instability, urban crisis, social polarization, graded access to information, [and] ecological degradation ..." While acknowledging the exciting political potential of the Internet and other digital technologies, this issue of MR shows how the potentialities of the "information age" are distorted by the actualities of contemporary capitalism. ------------------------------ End of CPSR-GLOBAL Digest 413 ***************************** _____________________________________________________________________ Richard Hull CROMTEC (Centre for Research on Organisations, Management & Technical Change) Manchester School of Management, UMIST PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK Tel: +44 (0)161 200 3401 Fax: +44 (0)161 200 3622 email: Richard.Hull@umist.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 04:59:03 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: New Radical Book on Psychology & Society I believe that memvbers of this forum will be interested to learn about the publication of the following book. Bob Young PSYCHOLGY AND SOCIETY: RADICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE edited by Ian Parker and Russell Spears CONTENTS Marxist Theses and Psychological Themes Russell Spears and lan Parker PART ONE: HISTORICAL MATERIAL The Challenge of Historical Materialist Epistemology Edward S. Reed Evolution, Biology and Psychology from a Marxist Point of View Robert M. Young Marxism, The Frankfurt School, and Working-class Psychology Martin Roiser and Carla Willig Psychology and Marxist Politics in the United States Benjamin Harris PART TWO: CRITICAL TRADITIONS Radical Behaviourism, Selectionism, and Social Action Jerome D. Ulman Convergences with Psychoanalysis R.D. Hinshelwood Critical Psychology as Subject-Science Wolfgang Maiers and Charles W. Tolma V.N. Volosinov and Social Psychology Liam Greenslade Newman's Practice of Method Completes Vygotsky Lois Holzman PART THREE: EVERYDAY LIFE Pick a Utopia, Any Utopia Mike Michael The Psychology of Everyday Life Grahame Hayes Emotion and Politics Paul Hoggett Incarcerated Women Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Angela Y. Davis The Revolutionary Psychology of Lev Davidovich Bronstein lan Parker PART FOUR: PRACTICES OF EMPOWERMENT Rethinking Empowerment Mark Burton and Carolyn Kagan Therapy, Consciousness Raising, and Revolution Ben Bradley and Jane Selby Participant Action Research Bernardo Jimenez-DomSnguez The Reactionary Practice of Radical Psychology Seephen Reicher Pp. xi+248 L15.99 (British punds sterling) London & Chicago: Pluto Press 345 Archway Road, London, N6 5AA 1436 West Randolph, Chicago. IL 60607 __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 14:26:43 UT Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Ian Pitchford Subject: New Journals on the WWW X-To: psa-public-sphere@sheffield.ac.uk, psychoanalytic-studies@sheffield.ac.uk X-cc: psychl@sjuvm.stjohns.edu, psychoan@sjuvm.stjohns.edu, rcpsych-request@mailbase.ac.uk Dear Colleagues, I recently helped to establish a number of journals on the WWW (listed below). All contain much of interest to mental health professionals and I would be grateful if you could forward this message to your respective forums and/or to any others likely to find the information of interest. HRAJ: Human Relations, Authority and Justice in particular has some excellent papers providing fascinating insights into the state of mental health care in Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Human Relations, Authority and Justice: Experiences and Critiques: ------------- UK: http://www.human-nature.com/HRAJ/home.html US: http://rdz.stjohns.edu/human-nature/HRAJ/home.html Science as Culture -------------------------- UK: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html US: http://rdz.stjohns.edu/human-nature/sac/sac.html Free Associations ------------------------- UK: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/fa.html US: http://rdz.stjohns.edu/human-nature/fa/fa.html Psychoanalytic Studies -------------------------------- UK: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/psastud/index.html US: http://rdz.stjohns.edu/human-nature/psastud/index.html Regards Ian Pitchford ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:42:07 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: NEW: Holistic-L - Alternative concepts for health professionals X-cc: psa-public-sphere@sheffield.ac.uk Holistic-L on Listserv@Citadel.Net - Health Professionals Holistic-L is an unmoderated list for health professionals, such as medical doctors, researchers, nurses, physical therapists, etc... The purpose of the list is to discuss alternative health concepts and possible solutions for caring for patients, with an open mind. Subscribers on this list will share their knowledge and experiences, on subjects such as: . Diets . Herbs . Pycnogenol . Mexican Yam . DHEA . Macronutrients . Micronutrients . Cancer . ADD . Coral Calcium . RDA . Colloidal Minerals This list is confined to only health professionals. Those subscribing must provide the information below in order to to confirm they are a legitimate health professional. Please introduce yourself, your affiliation (if any), your interest and any additional background that will help us build a productive relationship. No digest will be available for this list. As a courtesy to our subscribers, we will be placing "Holistic:" in the subject heading before your subject. This way you can quickly identify this forum. Example: SUBJECT: Holistic: Effects of Mexican Yam on PMS? To subscribe to list: TO: Holistic-L@Citadel.Net SUBJECT: join TEXT: join Holistic-L Owner: Dr. Leonard A. Manion Execu/Quest Marketing Consultants http://Citadel.Net/Xquest ------- Use this information at your own risk. For more information and disclaimer send E-mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU with the command INFO NEW-LIST in the body. __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:55:01 UT Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Ian Pitchford Subject: SCI-CULT Web Site The SCI-CULT Web site has been updated and a mirror site established at St John's University in New York: UK: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html US: http://rdz.stjohns.edu/human-nature/sac/sac.html Contributions and comments are most welcome. Regards Ian ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:50:46 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Lucas Parra Subject: Preliminary World Conference of Scientists and Academics for a World Without Wars This might be of interest to many ouf you ... Take care, Lucas ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Lucas Parra - www.humanism.org/~lucas ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 17:03:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Registration for WWW2000 Subject: UC Berkeley conference presided over by Mikhail Gorbachev Esteemed friends: We are privileged to invite you to participate in the 2-day international conference dubbed "Preliminary World Conference of Scientists and Academics for a World Without Wars" on October 3 and 4, 1996 at the International House, UC Berkeley to be presided over by Mikhail Gorbachev. We all know the horrors of war and, as formers of the new generations, we feel a commitment to support any initiative toward changing the prevalent idea of war as something inevitable and "natural." Campaign 2000 Without Wars proposes stopping armed conflicts all over the planet for one week in the year 2000. This would produce a "demonstration effect," prompting upcoming generations to reflect on the possibility that the new millennium might indeed open with a fundamental change in historical direction. Of course, we do not naively believe that this awareness campaign will automatically end all wars. But we also realize that if our historical direction does not change, our current civilization will continue to be based on conflict. Our vision is to mark the beginning of a new historical process which will contribute to the formation of a global civilization based instead, on nonviolence and tolerance. This project assigns a central role to universities and centers of education and research worldwide - a role involving the organizing of a World Congress towards the end of 1999 in which the different aspects of war are debated: sociological, psychological, anthropological, judicial, economic, technological, etc. This 1999 Congress would then become humanity's spokesperson before governments, carrying on the initiative of great figures like Einstein and Sakharov, to voice the deep yearning that has been gestating in the human heart since the beginning of civilization: the yearning for peace on our planet. To make this Conference possible and to endow it with a truly universal character, we are seeking the endorsement of a significant number of universities and centers of education and research - representatives of the different cultural realities. Toward this end, this letter has been sent to 3000 university presidents and chancellors worldwide. We are now in the process of sending the same to individual members of the academe in the 25 countries where the project is in process. As an intermediate step - as was mentioned earlier - this October 3-4 at the University of California at Berkeley, a preliminary conference will be held. This "Preliminary Conference of Scientists and Academics for a World Without Wars" will study the steps needed to determine the workability of the project. Your participation, or that of any of your colleagues, would be of great interest. Mikhail Gorbachev will preside over the conference, which is also endorsed by a growing number of internationally recognized figures, including Noam Chomsky, Ilya Prigogine, D.S. Lijachov, Fernando Savater, Jerry Brown, etc. We have also received the endorsement and active participation of many universities and institutions including the National University of Distance Learning of Madrid, Lomonosov University of Moscow, the University of Buenos Aires, the European Peace University in Spain and many other institutes and centers of education, research and international cooperation including the Russian Academy of Science in St. Petersburg, The International House at UC Berkeley and the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow. We enclose a tentative plan for the program of the Congress, and would appreciate any suggestions from you and/or your colleagues. Your active collaboration in the development or coordination of any of these proposed thematic areas, or of any others that you consider to be of interest, would be very significant. We hope that this project will help us, as transmitters of human knowledge, to transform the old saying "if you wish peace, prepare for war" into "if you wish peace, prepare for peace." Note: For more information on the conference or the campaign 2000 Without Wars, please visit our website at: http://2000nowars.org And for faster response, we also suggest that you register for the conference at our website at http://2000nowars.org/register.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - REGISTRATION FORM Please, complete this form and submit early. ( Because of the amount of positive responses we are getting for this conference, we suggest early registration on your part). PERSONAL INFORMATION: Name: (first, middle, last) Address: City: State: Zip Code: Telephone: Fax: E-mail Address: PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION: Profession: Name of University/College: Department: Address: City: State: Zip Code: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Preliminary Conference of Scientists and Academics for a World Without Wars Thematic Areas 1. The processes by which wars are constituted a. History as a history of wars b. The social construction of war - from daily conflicts and contradictions to the situation of war - the situation of people in war zones - the situation of those outside of war zones c. Wars as a result of the intentions and decisions of individuals, institutions and pressure groups d. War as an institutional fact - the laws of war - war as an extension of politics - war and international law e. Arguments in favor of war - war in the name of God - war in the name of the Nation - war based on ethnic conflict - war over economic interests and spheres of influence f. War as an expressive act and as a last resort for communication 2. Knowledge confronting the problem of violence and war a. Peace as the absence of war -is it possible to have a situation of peace that does not imply a situation of war? - the institutional monopoly of violence - the relationship among different types of violence: economic, psychological, religious, racial, generational and sexual - with war as the maximum expression of collective violence - daily violence b. Current beliefs about war - personal and social values based on war - beliefs underlying the idea of the "inevitability" of war - myths and rituals related to war c. Categories of discourse related to war 3. Structures and technologies of war a. The modern army as an institution b. The military industrial complex and its influence on the sociopolitical sphere c. The development of technological research for war and its primacy over civil research d. The responsibility of scientists in the development of the war industry 4. A world without wars a. Could the known wars have been avoided? - analysis of armed conflicts - past, present and in gestation - analysis of the keys and conditioning factors for avoiding said conflicts b. New functions for armies c. Development of an ethical commitment for scientists d. New orientation toward peace for Science, Ideologies and Institutions: - new concept of peace - conversion of war industries - conversion in the fields of education, politics, religion and art - conversion of war economies into economies for greater social justice - conversion of military research into research for a world without wars - new functions for international institutions (United Nations, World Court, etc.) - new international institutions necessary for a world without wars - what kind of institutions might substitute for institutions based on war? e. Simulation of a world without wars f. Toward a planetary civilization and a Universal Human Nation: All Wars are Civil Wars! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------- End of forwarded message ------- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 13:55:43 -0700 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Ron Roizen Subject: SaC: Centers versus Individual Projects? Anyone aware of articles on the respective pros and cons of scientific work organized (a) by means of centers or enduring establishments versus (b) individual project grants to a more loosely organized hinterland of researchers? Thanks in advance for any assistance! Ron Roizen -- Ron Roizen voice: 510-848-9123 fax: 510-848-9210 home: 510-848-9098 1818 Hearst Ave. Berkeley, CA 94703 U.S.A. rroizen@ix.netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 08:50:09 +0900 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E8?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C7=D0=BC=F6?= Subject: Requsest of information Dear Ladies and Gentlemen: I am a scholar teaching science communication and doing research on it in Seoul, Korea. I am currently interested in "scientific culture at home and the workplace (especially white collar work)," which dominates most of our daily life. Therefore, I would greatly appreciate your kind assistance if you send me information of some research literature, whatever such scientific culture is conceptualized in, discussed and/or quantified. My addresses are: Hak-Soo Kim, Ph.D. Chairperson/Professor, Dept. of Mass Communications, Sogang University, C.P.O. Box 1142, Seoul, South Korea. Fax: 82-2-705-8362 (school) E-mail: haksoo@ccs.sogang.ac.kr ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:32:12 +0000 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: epipome@MPX.COM.AU Subject: Stanley Milgram Hi everyone. I am sorry to bother everyone, but am just wondering if anyone knows of any net resources on Stanley Milgram=B4s Authority and Obedience experiments. Please help me if you can. Kind Regards Ant=F3nio Sampaio ___________________________________________________ "The Answer is always 42" 2/13-21 Great Western Highway Parramatta NSW 2150 Ph: 61-2-6334548 Mobile: 61-15-660434 =46ax: 61-2-6334549 ___________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 11:26:51 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: UCLA Biomedical Hoistoey Collection on the web For those of you who browse the Web, please visit the UCLA Biomedical Library's History & Special Collection's Web Page. It is newly hatched and as always "under construction." The address is: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/hist_div/hisdiv.htm Katharine E.S. Donahue Head, History & Special Collections, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library kdonahue@library.ucla.edu 310 825-6940 __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 11:31:06 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: C16-18 medical works on web The Historical Medical Library at Yale in conjunction with Richard Siderits, M.D., is putting up a series of popular medical works of the 16th-18th centuries on the Web. The first of these works, The English Physitian (1652) by Nicholas Culpeper, is now available at the Library's Web site. http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/ The direct address is http://www.med.yale.edu/historical/culpeper/culpeper.htm Eventually there will be a search engine for these electronic texts. I have also created a page of Web addresses for historical medical library collections which can be reached through the Historical Library's home page. Suggested additions are welcome. Toby Appel Historical Librarian Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Yale University appel@biomed.med.yale.edu __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 08:29:26 +0000 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Lorna Nielsen Subject: Social Pressure Would anyone know where, on Internet, I can find good information on the following subject: ASSISTED REPRODUCTION AND ITS SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS I'm interested in the interaction between science and society in the field of assisted human reproduction. To be more specific, I'm interested in: * how social pressures, both ideological ( eg religion, media, feminism, etc) and legal (direct sanctions), affect, or aim to affect, the program of research in this field and its application, * how social pressures affect the recipients of services of science, the potential mothers, fathers, and even their "test-tube" children, and * how science and technology in this field affect the society. Lorna ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 18:12:50 +0000 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: "Jimmie J. Sanders, M.D." Subject: How to sign off? Can someone provide step by step detailed instructions as to how to sign off science as culture. I have a MAC if that makes any difference. Thanks Jimmie ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 17:25:00 CDT Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: john kilbourne Subject: Re: How to sign off? >Can someone provide step by step detailed instructions as to how to sign >off science as culture. I have a MAC if that makes any difference. > >Thanks Jimmie Please post these directions on the list. Thanks. John ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 12:31:34 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Re: How to sign off? >>Can someone provide step by step detailed instructions as to how to sign >>off science as culture. I have a MAC if that makes any difference. >> >>Thanks Jimmie > > >Please post these directions on the list. >Thanks. John If you wish to unsubscribe, do not write to the list but to listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu with the message unsubscribe science-as-culture. If you write to the list to unsubscribe, you will annoy the subscribers and will not be unsubscribed. __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 20:43:33 -0400 Reply-To: ad201@freenet.carleton.ca Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Donald Phillipson Subject: How to sign off Reposted since first detected as a possible Listserv command and rejected -- clever software! Someone asked: >> Does anyone know how to unsubscribe from this listserver? > >They are all the same: to unsubscribe send to >LISTSERV@ELECTRONIC.ADDRESS >the message >UNSUBSCRIBE LISTNAME > >E.g. send to >LISTSERV@GWUVM.GWU.EDU >the message >UNSUBSCRIBE AAASEST -- | Donald Phillipson, 4180 Boundary Road, Carlsbad Springs, | | Ontario, Canada, K0A 1K0, tel. 613 822 0734 | ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 07:06:11 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE Please keep this information for future reference so the whole list will not be troubled if and when you wish to unsubscribe. If you wish to unsubscribe, do not write to the list but to listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu with the message unsubscribe science-as-culture. If you write to the list to unsubscribe, you will annoy the subscribers and will not be unsubscribed. Best wishes, Bob Young __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 13:14:59 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Information of interest to subscribers to this forum This forum has about 380 subscribers. If you want to know who they are, send a message to listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu saying, review sci-cult I would appreciate it if those of you have not already done so would introduce yourself and include something about the reasons for your interest in the forum. The forum is associated with a web site where we place longer items - essays, reviews, etc. (some of which are under consideration for publication, others not), which are designed to inform and to provide materials for discussion on the forum. Please feel free to write to me and submit items for the web site. If I do not respond in good time, please pester me. I have a bad memory and lots on my plate. The web site is http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html US mirror site (gives quicker access for those on the other side of the ocean): http://rdz.stjohns.edu/human-nature/sac/sac.html The site is associated with the quarterly journal, _Science as Culture_. Information about the journal and back issues (available at about half price to subscribers) is at http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html US mirror site: http://rdz.stjohns.edu/human-nature/sac/sac.html Information about related forums and web sites has been gathered in a series of Guides to the Internet. These are at the web site of the Sheffield Centre for Psychotheraoeutc Studies: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ I am sending this posting because I wish there was more discussion on the forum. I will continue to post information which I think might interest subscribers, but I would like that to appear in the midst of lively discussions. Best wishes, Bob Young __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 13:42:22 -0700 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: H-NEXA Editor Michael Gregory Subject: Information of interest to subscribers to this forum Announcement (fwd to H-NEXA) from SCIENCE-AS-CULTURE X-To: H-NEXA@H-Net.msu.edu [Ed.: From our British cousins -MG] This forum has about 380 subscribers. If you want to know who they are, send a message to listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu saying, review sci-cult I would appreciate it if those of you have not already done so would introduce yourself and include something about the reasons for your interest in the forum. The forum is associated with a web site where we place longer items - essays, reviews, etc. (some of which are under consideration for publication, others not), which are designed to inform and to provide materials for discussion on the forum. Please feel free to write to me and submit items for the web site. If I do not respond in good time, please pester me. I have a bad memory and lots on my plate. The web site is http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html US mirror site (gives quicker access for those on the other side of the ocean): http://rdz.stjohns.edu/human-nature/sac/sac.html The site is associated with the quarterly journal, _Science as Culture_. Information about the journal and back issues (available at about half price to subscribers) is at http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html US mirror site: http://rdz.stjohns.edu/human-nature/sac/sac.html Information about related forums and web sites has been gathered in a series of Guides to the Internet. These are at the web site of the Sheffield Centre for Psychotheraoeutc Studies: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ I am sending this posting because I wish there was more discussion on the forum. I will continue to post information which I think might interest subscribers, but I would like that to appear in the midst of lively discussions. Best wishes, Bob Young __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus