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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

October 25, 2018 • by Seyla Benhabib

Reading Hannah Arendt’s Crises of the Republic in the Age of Trump: A Symposium Hannah Arendt’s Crises of the Republic is not so much a book as a collection, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1972, of three essays and an interview that first appeared, individually, in the years between 1969 and 1971. Three of ...

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We Are All Fast Food Workers Now

An interview with Annelise Orleck

October 17, 2018 • by Annelise Orleck and Josh Maserow

In We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now, Annelise Orleck traces a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe. Orleck illuminates globalization as seen through the eyes of worker-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home-healthcare aides, airport workers, and adjunct professors who are fighting ...

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Vertical Horizons

The Shard, a Spectacle of Capital in the City?

September 24, 2018 • by Tom Wolseley

In a city I have lived in for 30 years a transformation is occurring. It is at once obvious, in its massive demolition and construction, yet beyond my experience and understanding. It is easy to simply identify this change with a new sublime of global capital. I live and work between ...

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Irony and Historical Detachment

Analysis/discussion of pastiche in social media

June 29, 2018 • by Lindsay Parkhowell

This second interpretation is what I want to focus on. I want to show that instead of being a form of humor the graffiti in this image is representative of a strain of urbane, ironic detachment that has become pervasive in Anglophone cultures over the past decades. I want to ...

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

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

January 29, 2018 • by Nick Nesbitt

The following are excerpts from an interview with Nick Nesbitt conducted by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paolo and from his introduction to the edited volume The Concept in Crisis. Reading Capital Today published by Duke University Press in 2017. Copyright 2017 Duke University Press. Folha de São Paolo: A century and a half after ...

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

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Offshoring

Reassessing the Rhetoric of Ineluctability

December 19, 2017 • by Sabine Pitteloud

Such rhetoric explains the increased use of offshoring since the 1990s — and the changes in employment that it has engendered — by referencing the changing economic environment. One decisive change that is almost always mentioned when this is discussed is the increased integration of markets around the world: markets ...

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The Myth of the Clash Between Islam and the West Revisited

ISIL, media, and adaptation

September 25, 2017 • by Jad Moawad

For instance, when first putting forward their analysis of the myth of the Clash of Civilizations (Bottici and Challand, 2013) in 2009, Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand analyzed the first 20 images that appear when the word al-gharb (West) is searched on Google images[1]. Among the findings, 16 out 20 ...

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Our New Walls

The Rise of Separation Barriers in the Age of Globalization

June 16, 2017 • by Julia Sonnevend

Separation barriers might seem archaic in a “globalizing” world, but they are increasingly popular worldwide. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, at least forty countries have built new walls. There are more separation walls now than there were in the fateful year of 1989, the year that had symbolically ...

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Fortress America

The state of exception and Trump’s politics of forgetting

January 31, 2017 • by Siobhan Kattago

As Timothy Snyder reminds us, Trump’s policy to "Make America Great Again" harkens back not only to the protectionism of the 1930s, but also to America First, the conservative group in the 1940s who opposed US intervention into World War II. Trump’s promise to make America great again is one of ...

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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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Thoughts on the Hungarian and Polish New Right in Power

September 21, 2016 • by David Ost

Eviscerating the Constitutional Court and purging the judiciary, complete politicization of the civil service, turning public media into a government mouthpiece, restricting opposition prerogatives in parliament, unilateral wholesale change of the Constitution or plain violation of it, official tolerance and even promotion of racism and bigotry, administrative assertion of traditional ...