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When Politics Invades the Personal

A New Mandate for Psychoanalysis in the Trump Era

January 16, 2017 • by Joan Golden-Alexis

James arrives at his session, bleary-eyed, having stayed up very late to hear the results of the 2016 presidential election. He doesn’t speak, but instead begins playing a recording of Judy Collins singing. As the song ends, he quietly repeats the refrain: The weight of the world, too heavy to lift ...

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Why Dr. Ben Carson Should Not Be Confirmed as HUD Secretary

An open letter to Senators Michael Crapo and Sherrod Brown

January 14, 2017 • by Rachel Bratt, Florence Wagman Roisman and N. D. B. Connolly

We, the undersigned, strongly oppose the appointment of Dr. Ben Carson as the next Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Apart from his personal views on a variety of political and social issues, we consider Dr. Carson completely unqualified to anticipate or promote appropriate solutions to ...

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The Philosophy and Psychoanalysis of the Image

A conversation

January 13, 2017 • by Chiara Bottici and Jamieson Webster

On the occasion of Totem & Taboo, an exhibition of new paintings by Daniel Horowitz at Tillou Fine Art (running through January 21), philosopher Chiara Bottici and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster discussed the role of the image in philosophy and psychoanalysis. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of salon-style interdisciplinary ...

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Interposition in the Age of Trump

Rethinking States’ Rights

January 12, 2017 • by Matthew Filner

In 1798, Congress passed the famous Alien and Sedition Acts. These four bills made citizenship more difficult for new immigrants, gave the President expansive deportation powers, and turned criticism of the federal government into a criminal act. (Sound familiar?) In response, James Madison wrote a series of resolutions ultimately adopted ...

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The Room Where It Happens

Jeff Sessions Testifies

January 11, 2017 • by Claire Potter

If any of Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees are turned back, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is not going to be among them. Sessions, at the age of 70 still the "junior" Senator from Alabama, was one of three nominees to begin the confirmation process yesterday. While he faced skepticism, and even anger, ...

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Time for Resolution

This Year We Save Democracy

January 11, 2017 • by Jill Gentile

New Year’s resolutions are a curious ritual. Each year we promise to change, even as we can’t help but recall last year’s resolutions and measure how far we’ve fallen short. Human beings are by and large procrastinators. We typically postpone any significant change until it’s almost too late -- until ...

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Obama’s Speech was Powerful and Flawed

January 11, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

It was a powerful speech, and a moving one. It was Obama at his best. Ever since Aristotle, we have known that language is what makes possible politics. Obama is a rhetorician in the best sense. He takes words seriously. He uses words to open us to the perspectives of others and ...

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Paris Terror Events and the Dramaturgies of the Aftermath

January 10, 2017 • by Public Seminar

Daniel Dayan is a fellow of the Marcel Mauss Institute (School of Advanced Study in the Social Sciences) and a professor at the Levinas European Institute. Dayan has been Research director at CNRS-Paris, and a visiting professor at Sciences-Po and the universities of Stanford, Geneva, Tel Aviv, and Oslo. He has also been an Annenberg scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, and for many years a ...

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Simianization in the Film “Sing”

Glaring caricature and stereotype provides teachable moment about racial bias

January 9, 2017 • by Jill Corson Lake

The animated film “Sing,” which opened on December 21, features a lazy, tone-deaf, and hurtful character choice by writer and director Garth Jennings. Whether conscious or unconscious, Jennings’ script perpetuates systemic racism and the history of simianization and oppression of black people by depicting them as gorillas, monkeys, and apes. “Sing” ...

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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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Bruno Latour – Facing Gaia

A GIDEST Video

January 4, 2017 • by GIDEST

GIDEST is a Mellon-funded research institute based at The New School that incubates transdisciplinary research at the intersection of social theory, art, and design. As well as our faculty, artist-in-residence, and doctoral fellows' programs, we run a series of biweekly public seminars that feature both prominent and emerging scholars and ...