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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 ...

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“Reclaiming Utopia”

An Introduction to the Project of Challenging the Financial Imagination

January 3, 2017 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

Dithering between the naiveté of techno-utopias of a fully-automated post capitalism, and the banal indulgence in bureaucratic ‘utopias of rules’, utopian thinking today seems to offer meagre hope for articulating and enacting radical futures. Meanwhile, in the world of financial markets, a formidable imagined future is being methodically produced. Fictional ...

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White Supremacy, Fear and the Crises of Legitimation

Reflections on the mistrial in the murder case of Walter Scott and the election of Donald Trump

January 1, 2017 • by Melvin L. Rogers

We are, however, likely to miss the importance of this decision if we do not connect it to another jarring day: November 9th. Many of us woke up (some of us never slept) to the announcement that Donald J. Trump would be the 45th president of the United States. Given ...

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Summer of Our American Discontent

New Hearts and Racial Divides

December 30, 2016 • by Louis Colombo

On July 12, 2016, in the midst of another American summer wracked by racial unrest, police brutality, protest, and violence, President Obama addressed the nation from Dallas, Texas, during a memorial service for five police officers slain in the line of duty and urged Americans to “reject despair” and to ...

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The 1@1

National Minute of Silence for Women’s Equality

December 29, 2016 • by Alyson Palmer

On 11/9, I felt physical pain. I'd lived through Reagan, and Bush ...and Bush... so, it wasn't a Republican win that squeezed my stomach with icy fingers. It was the vertiginous plunge of the elevator just as the doors were about to slide open onto full equality, the hurtling backward ...

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“Post-Truth,” And “Social Research”

Oxford English Dictionary’s word of 2016

December 28, 2016 • by Lydia Nobbs

What happens when facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief? This phenomenon is known as “post-truth,” a term that was named word of 2016 by the Oxford English Dictionary. When false news is seen as credible and the metrics of prediction have ...