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A Post on Friendship, Love and Power

On the Power of the Powerless in Dark Times

February 2, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

“There are a great many things which cannot withstand the implacable, bright light of the constant presence of others on the public scene; there, only what is considered to be relevant, worthy of being seen and heard, can be tolerated…there are very relevant matters which can survive only in the ...

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#MeToo in Hungary

Liberal self-cleansing or real change?

February 2, 2018 • by Réka Kinga Papp

This post was originally published by Eurozine and was accompanied by three other posts that Public Seminar will repost throughout this week. Following the first wave of the #MeToo movement, a new phase of reflection has set in. Here, four authors and journal editors from the US and Europe assess #MeToo's ...

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Recognizing Authority, Acknowledging Power

Concepts of control in Kojeve and Arendt, Part III

February 2, 2018 • by Eli Weiner

Below is the final segment of a three-part series adapted from a final paper for Sociology of Power and Authority at UVA. Having worked through the writings of both Kojève and Arendt, each of which endeavored to provide a thorough grounding in a comprehensive schematic of authority and power, it is ...

Recognizing Authority, Acknowledging Power

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Dutch Plan to Target Youth in Designer Clothes

A dangerous throwback to the persecution of Zoot Suiters

February 1, 2018 • by Lori Flores

Police in the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands recently announced a pilot program to target young men in designer clothes who, if they cannot provide proof they obtained their garb legally, will suffer its confiscation or even being stripped on the street. “We know they have clothes that are too expensive to ...

Dutch Plan to Target Youth in Designer Clothes

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Work-based Campaigns Have Shifted the Focus From Victims to Structures

A look at Sweden and sexual harassment

February 1, 2018 • by Ann Ighe

This post was originally published by Eurozine and was accompanied by three other posts that Public Seminar will repost throughout the week. Following the first wave of the #MeToo movement, a new phase of reflection has set in. Here, four authors and journal editors from the US and Europe assess #MeToo's ...

Work-based Campaigns Have Shifted the Focus From Victims to Structures

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Swedish Cash-Phobia

The fall of a kingdom, or when cash is no longer king

February 1, 2018 • by Angelica Stathopoulos

This Christmas I returned to the motherland to see family, friends, and to experience the short days, dark nights, and inexhaustible snowfalls that we in the north of Sweden are regularly blessed with. On New Year’s day I took a bus south to Stockholm to revisit my prior place of ...

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A Lot of Things Are Broken

Why focusing on sex won’t fix sexual harassment

January 31, 2018 • by Claire Potter

This post was originally published by Eurozine and was accompanied by three other posts that Public Seminar will repost later this week. Following the first wave of the #MeToo movement, a new phase of reflection has set in. Here, four authors and journal editors from the US and Europe assess #MeToo's ...

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Social Organicism in the Service of Power

The sinister side of unity discourse

January 31, 2018 • by Assad Asil Companioni and Kurtis Brade

Socialists, social democrats, Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders, and even liberals like Barack Obama, have been condemned for promoting “class warfare.” However, condemning those who combat oppression and injustice for “dividing society” is to participate in the defense of the social order as it currently exists. Such condemnations of attempts at ...

Social Organicism in the Service of Power

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What Makes for Ethical Sex?

The status of the ‘other’ in hetero-sex

January 31, 2018 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

On February 8, 2018, The New School will host an event entitled "Sexual Harassment and Assault: Eros, Power, Violation, and Consent." Psychologist Jeremy Safran will moderate a panel featuring Lew Aron and Adrienne Harris from NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Katie Gentile from John Jay College of Criminal ...

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Why Do We Still Believe in Homeopathy?

Two parts volatility, one part mysticism

January 30, 2018 • by Derek Beres

The alternative medicine industry is booming thanks to a growing mistrust of the health care industry. Profits have dominated people for decades in “Big Pharma.” While research costs are exorbitant, executive compensation is excessive. Appeasing a board of shareholders should not take precedence over human suffering. Patients feel powerless against market forces. ...

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Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto

An Excerpt

January 30, 2018 • by Bryan W. Van Norden

The following article is an edited excerpt from Chapter 1 of ‘ Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto’(2017), by Bryan W Van Norden, with a foreword by Jay L Garfield, published by Columbia University Press. The canon of mainstream philosophy in the Anglo-European world is narrow-minded, unimaginative, and even xenophobic. I know ...

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Franco “Bifo” Berardi on the “Possibility of Joy”

An interview

January 30, 2018 • by Clinamen

The following is a transcription of a broadcast aired on the radio program Clinamen, which is co-conducted by Diego Sztulwark, Diego Skliar, and Natalia Genero. It was translated from the Spanish by Ana Vivaldi and Daniel Harper in 2017. Bifo casts his gaze across multiple planes: the personal and the political, the technical ...