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What is Politicized Psychoanalysis?

Trump Problems and the Neoliberal Normal in Psychoanalysis

February 17, 2017 • by Daniel Polyak

When I ask my students to tell me what comes to mind when they hear the term neoliberalism they say: the rich get richer and the poor get poorer; the outsourcing of labor to the global south; gender and sexual compliance in public assistance and welfare programs; the systematic oppression ...

Education

Post-Election America

UTNS 2016 | UTNS 5016 Syllabus

February 14, 2017 • by William Milberg

In response to the demand from students for information, for historical context and for analysis of the election and its possible consequences, the New School is mounting a 14-week series of lectures by New School faculty called “Post-Election America.” Lectures will be led by experts in the topic area and ...

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Sitting To Stand

Protest, Patriotism, and the Endurance of White Supremacy

February 13, 2017 • by Michael Sasha King

Since San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to stay seated during the national anthem, this country has witnessed an extended attempt to diminish his act. Former quarterback Boomer Esiason said that Kaepernick was “about as disrespectful as any athlete has ever been,” whereas Hall of Fame baseball manager Tony ...

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Latina/o Entrepreneurship Is Not The Solution To Poverty

Policymakers Must Invest in Education, Affordable and Decent Housing, and Living Wages

January 27, 2017 • by Pedro Regalado

For more than 30 years now, liberals and conservatives alike have positioned Latino/a entrepreneurs as the cutting edge of community empowerment and economic mobility. Yet, history shows that the growth of the Latina/o business class has had limited impact on the broader Latina/o community’s socioeconomic status nationwide. Despite the success ...

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What Makes Something a Robot?

An Interview with John M. Jordan

January 27, 2017 • by Zed Adams

Zed Adams: In your book, you point out that although it’s easy to identify instances of robots, it’s hard to give a general definition of what makes something a robot. This is intriguing, because it seems like we know what differentiates robots and, say, humans -- at least until we’re ...

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Who’s Afraid of Workplace Democracy?

Research indicates cooperatives manage resources just as efficiently

January 19, 2017 • by Katarina Spasic

What is so remarkable when it comes to Weil’s notion of oppression is that she insists that oppression is inherent to managerial practice. Her work offers an ethical basis for the critical analysis of management, science, and expertise. One of her famous quotes reads, “When someone exposes himself as a ...

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The End of Progressive Neoliberalism

A chance to build a new, new left.

January 6, 2017 • by Nancy Fraser

The election of Donald Trump represents one of a series of dramatic political uprisings that together signal a collapse of neoliberal hegemony. These uprisings include the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom, the rejection of the Renzi reforms in Italy, the Bernie Sanders campaign for the Democratic Party nomination in ...

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Donald Trump On Mexico-U.S. Ties

An Open Letter

January 5, 2017 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso

Dear President-Elect Donald Trump, I write to you as a citizen of the United States and of Mexico, and as a fellow New Yorker. My American grandmother was brought to Mexico as a teenager when her father was commissioned with the expansion of a soda business there. She met my Mexican ...

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“Reclaiming Utopia”

An Introduction to the Project of Challenging the Financial Imagination

January 3, 2017 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

Dithering between the naiveté of techno-utopias of a fully-automated post capitalism, and the banal indulgence in bureaucratic ‘utopias of rules’, utopian thinking today seems to offer meagre hope for articulating and enacting radical futures. Meanwhile, in the world of financial markets, a formidable imagined future is being methodically produced. Fictional ...

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Since Reagan, Older Workers in Rust-Belt States Flipped from Economic Winners to Losers

December 16, 2016 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

The unemployment rate for older workers age 55 is quite low – 3.5 % about 25% lower than the rate for all Americans of every age. And more good news -- real earnings for older workers across the nation are increasing. But the rosy news hides the downward mobility of workers in particular ...

Since Reagan, Older Workers in Rust-Belt States Flipped from Economic Winners to Losers

Is Trump’s Carrier Deal a Good Plan for Good Jobs?

December 15, 2016 • by Teresa Ghilarducci and Richard McGahey

This post was originally published on the Huffington Post 12/13/2016. On December 8, a month after the election, President-Elect Donald Trump used Twitter to attack a white male steelworker - a representative of the voting block that tipped the election in his favor. For his part, Chuck Jones, president of United ...

Is Trump’s Carrier Deal a Good Plan for Good Jobs?

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Refashioning Patriotism

Selling Fear as Part of The War On Terror

December 5, 2016 • by Maria Christoforou

Less than one week after the World Trade Center attacks, campaigns for the restoration of the American economy and the recovery of the former consumer confidence and spending habits proliferated across the country. By transforming the national tragedy into a commodity, these campaigns initiated a discourse of patriotic consumerism and ...