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Blue Monday

Democracy Now

Thoughts on losing, winning, and politics

May 14, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington In my last two “Blue Monday” columns I reflected on the theme of “consonance and dissonance” and politics. More concretely, I suggested that it is very important, especially on the broad democratic left, to promote ...

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Creaturely Love

Symposium on Love

May 14, 2018 • by Dominic Pettman

Today I would like to briefly talk about some of the ways I think that love makes us both more and less than human. But first a nutshell version of my understanding of love. Love is a technology (as I have argued in a book called Love and Other Technologies). Indeed, it is ...

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Healing through a Black Mother’s Love

From Intergenerational Trauma to Accountability and Resilience

May 13, 2018 • by Jewel Cadet

Every year as Mother’s Day approaches, we are surrounded by gifts to purchase for the person who birthed us. We sift through cards that read things like “a mother’s unconditional love,” “thank you for always supporting me,” and “you’re the world’s best mom.” This is always a tough time of ...

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Taking Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy Seriously

Little Women on PBS

May 13, 2018 • by Sarah Handley-Cousins

Spoilers ahead for plot points of Little Women — but you’ve had 150 years to read the book! Growing up, my mother kept a 19th-century copy of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women on a table in my parents’ bedroom. It was pleasantly heavy, and its rounded cover had embossed vines and flowers on the cover. ...

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The Only One

Charley Pride, Darius Rucker, and the Colorblind Narrative in American Country Music

May 12, 2018 • by Matthew Linton

In 1987, country music novelty singer O.B. McClinton released “The Only One” which explored the complexity of being a black country music artist. The song told the story of McClinton traveling to a country bar to sing, only to be questioned for being a black artist in a genre dominated ...

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Thinking and Acting in Grief

Dark thoughts on a bright Friday morning

May 11, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

It has been a week of trying experiences and dark thoughts at Public Seminar and The New School. Jeremy Safran, a deeply respected colleague and wonderful person, was senselessly murdered. To make matters worse, the executive leadership of our beloved institution is fighting too vigorously in a labor dispute with our beloved students, ...

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The Mirage of Universalism Behind European Localism

An Excerpt from The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy

May 11, 2018 • by Walter Mignolo

It should be clear by now that Eurocentrism is not limited to the “bad,” but it encompasses also the “good” and the “ugly.” That means that Eurocentric critiques of Eurocentrism are indeed part of the image of totality that Eurocentrism projects. The question is to delink from it and to ...

The Mirage of Universalism Behind European Localism

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Five Theses on Virtual Reality and Sociality

Understanding the implications of radically new experiences

May 10, 2018 • by Deborah Levitt

The first published use of the term “virtual reality” is found in Antonin Artaud’s The Theater and its Double, in a section in which he asserts that alchemy and theater have in common that they are virtual arts. For Artaud, writing in 1933, there’s nothing technologically novel about virtual reality; it ...

Five Theses on Virtual Reality and Sociality

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Illuminating Global Feminism

The teachings of Shireen Hassim

May 10, 2018 • by Siobhan Dougherty

Shireen Hassim is a professor of political studies who has published many works that aim to theorize and articulate the observed relationship between women, feminism, and political parties within Africa. Focusing primarily in South Africa, Hassim has done exceptional work attempting to increase the quality of education for South African ...

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Understanding Conservative Political Incorrectness

A brief, and incomplete, intellectual history of identity politics on the right

May 9, 2018 • by Claire Potter

How do we understand the contemporary conservative pride in political incorrectness? One of the core principles of contemporary conservatism today is that identity -- race, gender, sexuality -- should neither entitle anyone to rights, nor imprison them in an ideology. Identity, conservatives argue, is something that liberals use to create constituencies ...

Understanding Conservative Political Incorrectness

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The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the Golden State Killer, and Remembering the Holocaust

Past Present Episode 129

May 9, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia debate the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the Golden State Killer, and the news that Americans are forgetting the Holocaust.

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The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the Golden State Killer, and Remembering the Holocaust

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The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi

A Life inscribed within the crucible of the history of the psychoanalytic movement

May 9, 2018 • by Thierry Bokanowski

This is an excerpt from chapter 2 of The Modernity of Sándor Ferenczi: his historical and contemporary importance in psychoanalysis, by Thierry Bokanowski. By providing a concise yet thorough overview of the life and work of Sandor Ferenczi, The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi seeks to help make his thought and work better known. ...