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Neoliberal Horizons in Subjectivity

An excerpt from Jorge Alemán’s latest book

October 20, 2017 • by Jorge Alemán

It’s definitive to admit that when it comes to the symbolic order of language, in its distinct variants and modes of appearance, we must always distinguish two different dimensions. Firstly, we must indicate the “dependence and subordination” of the speaking being, with respect to the structural and ontological order of ...

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Subverting the Symbols of White Supremacy

The wolf and the fox

October 17, 2017 • by Keval Bhatt

Fascism had always seemed to me a thing of the past. It was almost like a fairy-tale I was told -- a passive deterrent, an unreal warning -- while going through school. But school was not my education; my real education occurred as I entered the fight against fascism in ...

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Global Histories of Capitalism Conference

A Conference at The New School

October 2, 2017 • by Aaron Jakes, Meghna Chaudhuri, Matthew Shutzer and Emma Park

Our conference aims to address the one-sidedness of the recent European and U.S. historiographic turn to the “history of capitalism” by providing one of the first venues to direct comparative investigations of emergent scholarship on the history of capital in the non-west. Our conference assembles a range of scholars from ...

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Confronting Financialization Demands a Radical Cultural Politics

An excerpt from Cultures of Financialization

September 18, 2017 • by Max Haiven

Rather than (or in addition to) castigating finance as purely the realm of capitalist excess, greed, cruelty and extortion, we may also need to see finance, and the broader processes of financialization, as both symptomatic and revelatory of some deeper, more profound and potent truths about our society. Financialization is, ...

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For and Against the Anthropocene

A review of ‘Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today’

September 15, 2017 • by Vince Carducci

Since the turn of the 21st century, many scientists have been arguing for the designation of a new epoch in Earth's geological history, which they term the Anthropocene in acknowledgment of the impact of humans on the planet's evolution. While not yet officially approved by the International Union of Geological ...

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Near-Retirees at All Incomes Are Almost 1/3 Short of Target Retirement Savings

August Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55

September 2, 2017 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

Low-, middle-, and high-income near retirees are almost one-third short of the savings they need to maintain their standard of living in retirement. ReLab's new report using just-released government data documents that the median level of retirement savings in IRAs and 401(k)-type plans among workers ages 55-64 is $15,000. When workers who do not ...

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Stolen Valor, MLMs, and Private Roads

Past Present: Episode 96

August 24, 2017 • by Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

In this week's episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate lying about Vietnam, multi-level marketing companies, and the privatization of public roads.

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Corporate America Alone Cannot Save Us from Trump

Activists must fight to ensure that all of our institutions are inclusive of all people

August 18, 2017 • by Jessica Ann Levy

Corporate America took a stand against hatred and bigotry this week. On Monday, Merck pharmaceuticals CEO Kenneth Frazier resigned from Donald Trump’s manufacturing council in response to the President’s equivocations about the white-nationalist riot that took place in Charlottesville over the weekend. Even after James Alex Fields, Jr. murdered 32-year ...

Corporate America Alone Cannot Save Us from Trump

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How to Rescue ‘The People’ from Populism

Reviving the law to reclaim liberal democracy

July 24, 2017 • by Alessandro Ferrara

Can Rawls's paradigm of “political liberalism” help us understand populism and cope with it? Should this question sound surprising, think of how much water has flown under the bridges of democracy since the time when advocates of participatory, “strong” democracy like Barber intimated that “the survival of democracy depends on ...

How to Rescue ‘The People’ from Populism

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Remember the Bastille

Terror, Terrorism, and Jihadist Capitalism

July 18, 2017 • by Liz Scheer

Introduction: Terror and Terrorism On Friday, June 19th, a man rammed into a police car on the Champs Elysses. Though the driver died before he could carry out further violence, it was evident that his intention was to commit a larger-scale attack; inside the incinerated vehicle, investigators found explosives, ammunition, and ...

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The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization

Poetry, Art, and the New Spirit of Capitalism

July 16, 2017 • by Vince Carducci

Updating Walter Benjamin -- whose famous essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' on which the title of his book riffs -- poet and critic Jasper Bernes seeks nothing less than a complete reconsideration of poetry and art over the past 50 years, coinciding with the ...

The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization

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Amazon & Whole Foods, Summer Jobs, and Gerrymandering

Past Present: Episode 89

June 30, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil debate Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods, the disappearing teen summer job, and the politics of gerrymandering.

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