The Military Industrial Complex on Campus / Sylvia Martin

This Is Hell!

News

4.9 • 937 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Anthropologist Sylvia J. Martin discusses her recent the Monthly Review article, "UARCs: The American Universities that Produce Warfighters." She is the author of numerous articles on globalization and the intersection of narrative and the U. S. national security state. Check out Sylvia's article here: https://monthlyreview.org/2024/09/01/uarcs-the-american-universities-that-produce-warfighters/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Mickey
0:01.8	Dickieff!
0:02.0	The water will be
0:10.0	Mickey Jack! This is hell.
0:23.6	Behind every great fortune This is hell.
0:49.9	Behind every great fortune lies a great crime, because this is hell and a great fortune is being plowed into our universities through what could definitely be called the moral and ethical crime of
0:56.0	militarizing higher education. You might think, as I did, that the presence of the many
1:02.8	branches of the U.S. military on university campuses across the United States is nothing new. After all,
1:09.4	campus ROTC programs, which stands for Reserve Officer
1:13.1	Training Corps, have been around since 1916 before U.S. involvement in World War I, which was at the
1:22.7	time still known as the Great War. However, those who fought in the war must not have thought it was so great, as veterans of
1:30.0	that fighting didn't boast and brag about their military service and demand they be treated
1:34.9	with reverence and gratitude, like so many of today's vets and their supporters insist we do.
1:40.0	But the military is far more pervasive on some college campuses compared to others.
1:45.6	Those schools are known as what the Defense Department calls the Pentagon calls
1:50.5	university-affiliated research centers or UARCs.
1:57.0	At those universities, the military is far more active and involved than other students may realize or care to admit.
2:03.4	As our guest today explains, these campus Pentagon research programs were established in 1996 by the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
2:13.1	UARC's function as non-profit research organizations at designated universities aim to ensure that those capabilities are available on demand to its military agencies.
2:25.3	While there is a long history of scientific and engineering collaboration between universities and the U.S. government dating back to the Second World War, U.A.RARCs reveal the breadth and depth of today's
2:37.0	military university complex, illustrating how militarized knowledge production emerges from
2:43.9	within the academy and without corporate involvement. So, what can possibly go wrong by allowing the Department of Defense, formerly known as the Department of War, to occupy university research facilities?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from This Is Hell!, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of This Is Hell! and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.