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The Internal Walls in America

Trying to Make Sense of Trump

November 15, 2016 • by Cayla Clinkenbeard

Donald Trump will be our next president, and I am heartbroken. Simon Critchley recently wrote an article for the NY times in which he describes his nausea with this election. The nausea, he says, emerges from the realization that this is not the America that we thought it was. I ...

Education

Exile as Haven

On The New School Dorm Room Doors Vandalized with Swastikas

November 14, 2016 • by Julia Foulkes

Those of us at The New School received news on Saturday that dorm room doors had been vandalized with swastikas. The president has acted swiftly, calling it a hate crime and enacting a zero tolerance policy for such actions. Since this may be an act of students -- entry to ...

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What to Do After the Election?

Moving Forward Under a Trump Presidency

November 11, 2016 • by Chris Crews

The weather in New York on the morning of November 9th was gloomy, just like the political mood. Despite numerous reassurances to the contrary, many people’s worst nightmare had just come true. Donald Trump would soon be President. It was as if the entire world had somehow come unraveled overnight. ...

Education

Utopian Niche-ings and the Politics of If and Otherwise

November 8, 2016 • by Abou Farman

Despite the radical role of utopian thinking in early revolutionary and social change movements in Europe, by the latter half of the 20th century utopian projects had been largely discredited as idealistic and unrealizable or as preludes to an inevitable dystopia. But there has been a revival of utopia talk ...

Utopian Niche-ings and the Politics of If and Otherwise

Race

Donald’s Dick

A Man Against the Institutions

November 4, 2016 • by Roger Friedland

This election is about the sex of state. In the eyes of millions of his supporters, particularly the men who would make him President, America’s manhood is at stake. Donald Trump is running as an erect phallus, a sexually aggressive man who can break through the forms, crush our enemies ...

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Punk Preempts the Post-Popstar Age

Prosumption and Celebrity within Neoliberal Economics

November 1, 2016 • by Jared Davis

“maybe they’re born with it. maybe they watched loads of YouTube tutorials.” So reads the SoundCloud page description of Internet-native photographer, artist, and musician Arvida Byström. In the 1977 issue of the UK fanzine Sideburns, the punk movement was once instructed, “this is a chord, this is another, this is a ...

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Trump and the End of America’s Dreaming

October 26, 2016 • by Christopher Lebron

The other day as my son and I walked to his school, he began riffing -- as 5 year-olds are wont to do -- on the wonder of the police. As most kids do at some point, he has developed an interest in uniformed public servants. The police interest him ...

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Sadism in Poland

The proposed abortion bill was an attack on women, nothing else

October 20, 2016 • by Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer

Since the beginning of Law and Justice Party (PiS) rule in Poland, the right-wing government has accustomed Poles to regulations that counter the principles of democracy (e.g. the Constitutional Tribunal) or human decency (nepotistic hires). This time, however, PiS has taken a step further, deciding to support a bill proposed ...

Donald Trump and Rape Culture

October 19, 2016 • by Matthew Filner

“This was locker room talk.” So began Donald Trump’s response, in the Second Presidential Debate, to being questioned about his sexual assault boasts in the now infamous Access Hollywood tape. Trump immediately moved to talking about what he called “more important things”: the danger of ISIS, and what he would ...