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University Faculty Should Welcome “Foreign Influences,” Not Police Them

Indiana University instructs faculty to comply with all laws and regulations regarding foreign influences

Jeffrey C. Isaac January 14, 2019

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The New History of Capitalism

And what it owes to poststructuralism

Andrew Seal January 9, 2019

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What is the Crisis a Crisis of?

To characterize our republic’s predicament as one of democracy is an authoritarian fantasy

Seyla Benhabib October 25, 2018

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We Are All Fast Food Workers Now

An interview with Annelise Orleck

Annelise Orleck and Josh Maserow October 17, 2018

Counterspeculations: Challenging the Financialised Imagination Essays Feature Imaginal Politics

Vertical Horizons

The Shard, a Spectacle of Capital in the City?

Tom Wolseley September 24, 2018

Essays Feature Power and Crisis

Irony and Historical Detachment

Analysis/discussion of pastiche in social media

Lindsay Parkhowell June 29, 2018

Capitalism Essays Feature Theory & Practice Verticals

Are Marx’s ‘Capital’ and Althusser’s ‘Reading Capital’ Still Relevant Today?

Princeton professor Nick Nesbitt argues for the transhistorical importance of both works

Nick Nesbitt January 29, 2018

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Offshoring

Reassessing the Rhetoric of Ineluctability

Sabine Pitteloud December 19, 2017

Essays Feature Imaginal Politics

The Politics of Selfies

Trudeaumania and the political spectacle

Hervé Viens December 4, 2017

Essays Feature Imaginal Politics Religion

The Myth of the Clash Between Islam and the West Revisited

ISIL, media, and adaptation

Jad Moawad September 25, 2017

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Democracy Seminar 2.0 will draw on the knowledge and longstanding intellectual mission of the New School for Social Research, with its founding in 1919, its University in Exile of 1933, and with its Democracy Seminar of the 1980s and 1990s. https://t.co/J5d9iSmhjs

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About 500 people came to Washington DC from different states to march from the White House to the Capital demanding that they be allowed to stay in the United States. February 12 was a cold and rainy day. https://t.co/ton5jIBWyw

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"Trust takes time, time outside of classes, and time often beyond the constraints of a semester."

Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, Urban Studies Faculty, was interviewed in "When SPURA + Visual Urbanism Meet" via @PublicSeminar https://t.co/GsbSZGxEf9 #langfaculty

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"Democracy Seminar 2.0 will draw on the knowledge and longstanding intellectual mission of the New School for Social Research, with its founding in 1919, its University in Exile of 1933, and with its Democracy Seminar of the 1980s and 1990s. As in The New School’s past, Democracy Seminar 2.0 will serve a general scholarly and public purpose, and also seek to inform public policy and political strategies." …

Towards a World Wide Committee of Democratic Correspondence

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Imagine: a world wide network of democrats comparing their experiences, debating about the nature of the new authoritarian threat and the character of the new authoritarian leaders. They would examine how the new authoritarianism is changing their lives. They would critically consider and analyze th

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Immigrants Demand Permanent Residency

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Although I’ve had plenty of criticism from conservatives and libertarians who often willfully misread the book to present me as some crazy Stalinist, it’s the careful critiques from the left that are the most devastating because they come from people who I think might be allies. …

Socialism and the Future of Gender Justice: Part 2

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On August 12, 2017, Kristen Ghodsee published an op-ed in the New York Times, titled “Why Women Had Better Sex under Socialism.” The piece was due to appear in print a few days later, but the editors published the online version on that date. Coincidentally, the late night of August 11th and the…

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Indiana University instructs faculty to comply with all laws and regulations regarding foreign influences

And what it owes to poststructuralism

To characterize our republic’s predicament as one of democracy is an authoritarian fantasy

An interview with Annelise Orleck

The Shard, a Spectacle of Capital in the City?

Analysis/discussion of pastiche in social media

Princeton professor Nick Nesbitt argues for the transhistorical importance of both works

Reassessing the Rhetoric of Ineluctability

Trudeaumania and the political spectacle

ISIL, media, and adaptation