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Detain and Deport: A Transnational Ethnography of U.S. Immigration Enforcement

March 4, 2016 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

ZIMM Lecture Series 2015-2016 Presents: Nancy Hiemstra: “Detain and Deport: A Transnational Ethnography of U.S. Immigration Enforcement” February 24th, 6pm-8pm, The Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall/Hoerle Lecture Hall, UL105, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, Lower Level. In many states around the world today, immigration and terrorism are discursively conflated, immigrants are scapegoated as the cause ...

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Nihilists with Good Imaginations

March 3, 2016 • by Lucas Ballestín

In what may be her most ambitious piece yet, Chiara Bottici recently published a call for a continuation of debates around intersectional oppression along the lines traced out by anarchist thought. Somewhat surprisingly, though, Bottici avoided making explicit reference to some of her previous work, which, though it may be ...

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Perspectivalism Without Relativism: A basis for Susan Henking’s “educated hope” for liberal education

March 2, 2016 • by Michael Weinman

Last month, Susan Henking, President of Shimer College (my alma mater) wrote for O.O.P.S. what she called “my educated hope for Shimer and for liberal education,” a hope “rooted in a criticism of the ways we have been commodified, [forced to] meet our budgets… empowered and disempowered as institutions and ...

Perspectivalism Without Relativism: A basis for Susan Henking’s “educated hope” for liberal education

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An American Tragedy

March 1, 2016 • by Eli Zaretsky

I hate anything that smells of “I told you so,” but the only way I can explain the overwhelming success of Hillary Clinton’s race baiting of Bernie Sanders, and the kind of tragedy that represents for America’s future, is autobiographically. My first inkling that Barack Obama’s 2008 talk about a ...

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Hostile Architecture — Electronic Monitoring

February 29, 2016 • by Alexandra Mateescu

In urban planning, there’s a strategy known as “hostile” or “defensive” architecture, such as the metal spikes built into public ledges to keep people (particularly those who are homeless) from sitting on them. Similarly, a 2013 article in the New York Times described what it called “pocket parks.” After becoming alarmed at the presence ...

Hostile Architecture — Electronic Monitoring

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Populism, Representation, and Sanders

A Reply to Mueller

February 26, 2016 • by Franco Palazzi

In a recent article published on Public Seminar, Jan-Werner Mueller affirmed that populism is by its very nature not only anti-elitist, but also anti-pluralist: “Populists claim that they, and only they, represent the people.” He then attacked the undemocratic tendency populist politicians show when they lose the elections: they “begin to ...

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Episode 22: Antonin Scalia, Samantha Bee, and the Grammys

February 23, 2016 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Neil J. Young and Nicole Hemmer

In this week's episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia debate Scalia's legacy, women in comedy, and Kendrick Lamar's Grammy performans For more Past and Present

Episode 22: Antonin Scalia, Samantha Bee, and the Grammys

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Hannah Arendt, “Standpoints” of History, and Epistemic Pitfalls

February 22, 2016 • by Rezvaneh Ganji

I enjoyed Franco Palazzi’s expansion and critical analysis of my earlier post, which had criticized Republican presidential nominees from an Arendtian perspective. I value and find analytically powerful his distinction between marginality and invisibility. Here, I would like to focus and reflect on his two other critiques: (1) a critique ...

Hannah Arendt, “Standpoints” of History, and Epistemic Pitfalls

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Pragmatism’s Promise

February 21, 2016 • by Laura Nelson

One of the many definitions of “dialectic” is “a method of examining and discussing opposing ideas in order to discover the truth”; another is “discussion and reasoning by dialogue as a method of intellectual investigation.” On either definition, Richard J. Bernstein is indisputably the most proficient and prolific ...

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Occupy the Party: The Sanders’ Campaign as a Site of Struggle

February 18, 2016 • by Not An Alternative

Bernie Sanders’ campaign to be the Democratic Party’s nominee in the 2016 US presidential election presents the left in the United States with some hard questions. Is this the revolution we’ve been hoping for? Or is it just more of the same, another effort to generate and mobilize enthusiasm that ...

Occupy the Party: The Sanders’ Campaign as a Site of Struggle

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Episode 21: The Zika Virus, Beyonce’s Formation, and Hillary Clinton’s Feminism Problem

February 17, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the Zika virus and public health, Beyonce's Formation, and Hillary Clinton's feminism problem. Read more at Past and Present