Nancy Fraser Archives - Public Seminar

Activism

A Response to “Principles of Solidarity. A Statement”

Human dignity for all

November 22, 2023 • by Public Seminar

Solidarity means that the principle of human dignity must apply to all people. This requires us to recognize and address the suffering of all those affected by an armed conflict....

Theory & Practice

Field Notes on “Sentencing the Present”

Diagnosing what is false without ceding what is beautiful

June 18, 2020 • by Jonathon Catlin and Benjamin P. Davis

This is a final reflection by the curators of the seminar series “Sentencing the Present,” which was republished in full last week as “An Archive of a Crisis.” Because readers have asked us about the process and production of “Sentencing the Present,” when Public Seminar asked us to write a “post-mortem” ...

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Speculating on Chaos in Financialized Capitalism

Speculations, Spectacles, Spectres

May 30, 2019 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

Across the channel, during the upheaval caused by the gilets jaunes movement, media and government have condemned protestors’ actions for the continuing chaos they have brought upon France’s city centers. Back in autumn, some weeks before the eruption of the gilet jaunes protests, President Macron used his Armistice Speech to focus on the ...

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Seeking Illumination in Dark Times

On the power of art, race and racism, and the limitations of science and politics

September 7, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Reading our series on the arts, provides some hope in our dark times, on this cloudy and humid Friday afternoon in New York. I have long believed that the key to liberation is illumination, that we have to see the ways things are, and see how things might possibly change, ...

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Race and Capitalism

Welcoming Michael Dawson to the New School

September 5, 2018 • by Mayra Cotta

In recent decades, the study of race and capitalism -- which reaches back to the masterful works of Du Bois, Eric Williams, Stuart Hall, James Boggs, Angela Davis, Cedric Robinson, Cornell West, Kimberlee Crenshaw, Adolph Reed, just to name a few -- has been marginalized in favor of post-structuralist or ...

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Choose Your Pill

Operations of Capital, Psychiatry, and the Construction of Gender

June 27, 2018 • by Franco Palazzi

I In his book Testo Junkie , Paul B. Preciado provides us with a provocative, original reading of contemporary capitalism, conceived as a pharmacopornographic regime. This term refers to “the processes of biomolecular (pharmaco) and semiotic-technical (pornographic) government of sexual subjectivity” that, although possibly rooted in the nineteenth century, became visible as a new ...

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Is There No Feminism With Capitalism?

Reading Public Seminar, Thinking about the Relationships between Gender Justice and Free Public Life

January 19, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The developing debate over #MeToo and the MeToo backlash raises critical questions concerning the broad and deep struggles for democracy and social justice, perhaps the most central: are gender justice and capitalism compatible? Many of my friends and colleagues think not. I disagree. My dissent from the leftist consensus of my ...

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Good News

On the American elections, Public Seminar and civility and subversion

November 10, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I am feeling better this week. The election results were heartening, from top to bottom, from the high profile governor races in Virginia and New Jersey to the defeat of a most right wing county executive in Westchester, New York (close to home and very significant for me and my ...

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Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser

A book excerpt from Banu Bargu and Chiara Bottici

November 7, 2017 • by Banu Bargu and Chiara Bottici

What has followed is a veritable revival of research on different aspects of capitalism (see, for example, Piketty 2013; Stiglitz 2013). While the movement away from the predominantly culturalist perspectives toward the register of materiality has been welcomed by many, this turn to the material sphere has not exactly been ...

Education

The New Authoritarianism and the Structural Transformation of the Mediated Public Sphere I

Reviewing the work of Jurgen Habermas and Hannah Arendt with an assist from Nancy Fraser

August 18, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

It’s been two weeks since my return from Wroclaw. I am getting over the shock of teaching about the rise of the new authoritarianism, as the Polish parliament, The Sejm, seemed to be hammering the final nails into the coffin of Polish democracy. It turned out to be a little ...

The New Authoritarianism and the Structural Transformation of the Mediated Public Sphere I

Multi Media

Building a Feminism for the 99%

Mobilizing for the International Women’s Strike

April 7, 2017 • by Zeyno Ustun

Public Seminar broadcasted the open conversation with feminists, students, workers, professors and international activists, including Nancy Fraser, Cinzia Arruzza and Miriam Ticktin, live in Feb 28th at the New School. The event was announced with the following message. Enjoy the video! On March 8 more than 30 different countries went on strike. ...

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Trumpism – How Should the Left Respond?

Dissent Editors and Contributors Debate how the Left can defeat Trump

February 10, 2017 • by Julia Ott

Dissent editors and contributors debated how the left can defeat Trumpism. Featuring: Bhaskar Sunkara is editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine. Nancy Fraser is a professor of philosophy and politics at The New School for Social Research and author, most recently, of Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal ...