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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Ian Baucom The Human Shore: Postcolonial Studies in an Age ofNatural Science Ian Baucom In the Winter 2009 issue of Critical Inquiry, Dipesh Chakrabarty published an essay entitled "The Climate ofHistory: Four Theses: Widely known as one ofthe leading postcolonial theorists ofhis generation...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 170–193.
Published: 01 October 2011
...M. Brady Brower Science, Seduction, and the Lure ofReality in Third Republic France M. Brady Brower On June 8, 1905, a group of researchers representing the elite of theFrench scientific community gathered in the offices of the Institut general psy chologique (IGP) on the rue Conde in Paris...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 87–103.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Ethan Kleinberg Intervention Justthe Facts: The Fantasy ofa Historical Science Ethan Kleinberg One tries, one strives, but in the end it is not attained.Let none be im patient with this! The important thing [ is always) how we deal with humanity as it is, explicable or inexplicable; the life...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Shai Joshua Lavi Our Food is Our Bond: A History of Jewish and Muslim Animal Slaughter and Post-Christian Social Science ShaiJoshua Lavi Introduction According to a generally accepted, albeit at times controversial etymol ogy, the terms law and legality both originate from the Latin verb legere...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 166–191.
Published: 01 October 2023
... are read through two groundbreaking anthologies— Dark Matter , a collection of speculative fiction from the African diaspora, and Walking the Clouds , a collection of Indigenous science fiction—and the social conditions of their publication. Using the work of Walter Benjamin and his writing against...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 171–202.
Published: 01 October 2014
... of many scientific thinkers, best ex pressed by the desire for a unified theory that could explain essentially ev erything.1 Such a desire is based on the assumption that there is a general unity that underlies the various branches of science, a unity that should be expressed by a simple and elegant law...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 113–129.
Published: 01 April 2011
... Controversy In 2006, the Political Science Department at Penn State University formally discontinued political theory as a major subfield for graduate students and moved to effectively eliminate political theory from its faculty ranks.2 In some ways, this decision consummated a long historical trend: since...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 140–159.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Zrinka Stahuljak History as a Medical Category: Heredity, Positivism, and the Study ofthe Past in Nineteenth-Century France Zrinka Stahuijak If history is notof greater service to medicine, thatis notthe fault of history, butitis the faultof doctors. -Charles Daremberg, Histoire des sciences...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 137–168.
Published: 01 October 2015
... ofproblems that link ecologies with national security, with science and technology, and finance in an ongoing negative aftermath. For example, the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant in March 2011 jointlyproducedmaterialfallout, in the form ofcesium-137 contamina tion, but also revealed...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 31–39.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the multiple “thought communities,” as historian of science Ludwik Fleck once characterized them, whose debates configure what later hardens into scientific fact. Fleck’s study of syphilis as disease emergence in the mid-thirties analyzed how a multisymptom syndrome came to be reconstituted as a single...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 194–218.
Published: 01 October 2011
... was an obstacle to their science and a product of a psychoanalytic psychiatry, the dominant cultural configuration to which they opposed themselves early in their research and clinical careers. Through their shared project to biologize psychiatry, they gradually recoded mental illness, alcoholism, and the ad...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 275–283.
Published: 01 October 2023
... as much of the social sciences), have long been marked by some sense of epistemological and material crises. “It is surely significant to recall,” Samuel Weber wrote in 1985, that wherever the humanities have imposed themselves as an issue of academic discussion, at least in the United States, it has...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 96–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
... as a moment when life sciences and wage work grew in tandem-when the living wage emerged fromwithin a paradigm dominated by scientific materialism and solvent chemistry. Nineteenth-centuryscientists and political theorists defined life as the "organization ofmatter: Life, in this view, was production...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 241–269.
Published: 01 October 2022
... relationship we call ‘difference’” ( Provincializing 17 ) such that the project of modernity, animating both the social sciences and modern political ideals aspiring to “social justice,” was never complete, constantly reiterating the difference it claimed to sublate and holding open the possibility...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 187–199.
Published: 01 October 2015
... wish for my peers to join me in unfolding it. Slowly. Thisarticlewasfirstgiven asapaperat the conference "Theldea ofthe University,"organizedby the Centerfor theHumanities ofUtrecht University, September 19-20, 2013. Iris van der Tuin is Associate Professor ofLiberal Arts and Sciences at Utrecht Uni...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 176–182.
Published: 01 April 2020
...John Modern Works Cited Adorno Theodor W. Minima Moralia . New York : Verso , 1978 . Adrian Edgar D. “ The All-or-None Principle in Nerve .” Journal of Physiology 47 ( 1914 ): 460 – 74 . Beer Stafford . Management Science: The Business Use of Operations...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 149–169.
Published: 01 October 2011
... the neurosciences and psy choanalysis should understand the damage done to psychoanalysis by its sequestration from the natural sciences, the damage done to the neurosci ences by their detachment from psychic dynamism, and the inadequacies of consilience as a solution to interdisciplinary differences. E. Virginia...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 143–170.
Published: 01 October 2014
... natural science and political economy who set out to identify the "natural laws" governing the creation ofvalue: 8 The mercantile capital ofHollandis so great that it is, as it were, continually over flowing, sometimes into the publicfonds offoreign countries, sometimes into loans to private traders...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 53–79.
Published: 01 April 2021
... emphasize treatment and education, as many officials have been saying is needed” (Treaster). Clearly, such talk is behind us. It is not only that medical science is now more respected but that the political significance of the drug problem has changed: no longer a corruption of the American spirit...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 155–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
... movement. He was a self-conscious systems theorist and a fierce defender of his patient’s capacity to choose their best self. And he was committed to the spiritual welfare of his patients and the secularizing impulse of science to arrive at right reason. 14 Victoria: “I will. I, Victoria, woman...
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