From Scientists to Salesmen – A Review of Noah Hutton’s In Silico.
Pervasive corporate managerialism has made it such that the number and prestige of publications in prestigious for-profit journals has become the key metric of one’s value, and the critical currency through which stable, managerial-class jobs are procured. Meanwhile, the deliberate ballooning of for-profit student programs in STEM, coupled to an ever-shrinking job market, keep the labor pool highly skilled, oversaturated, and ever more desperate to compete. Taken together, these conditions have helped precipitate a euphemistically named “replication crisis” that, seen as the natural outcome of competitive social credit-seeking behaviors within a corporate system, is less a crisis of statistical power than it is a crisis of social disempowerment: negative results, however truthful, simply do not sell.
- In Silico explores an audacious 10-year quest to simulate the entire human brain on supercomputers (regularly screened, and screenings can be booked).
- Science for the People (Magazine): Science for the People is dedicated to building and promoting social movements and political struggles around radical perspectives on science and society.
- Do No Evil: An Interview with Noah Hutton.
- Guts is a short film directed by Noah Hutton and Taylor Hess premiered by The Atlantic about Dr. Max Liboiron and CLEAR, a feminist, anti-colonial marine plastics lab in Newfoundland (YT).