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Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects

Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer

May 1, 2018 • by Lana Lin

Public Seminar spoke to Lana Lin, author of Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects, about the genesis of the book, psychoanalysis, and art-making. Q&A with Lana Lin Public Seminar (PS): Why did you write Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer ? Lana Lin (LL): I had been training to become ...

Blue Monday

Consonance, Dissonance, Harmony

Itinerary of some thoughts on thinking politically

April 30, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington This is my fourteenth “Blue Monday” column. In but a few weeks, I have already written over forty thousand words in this virtual space. It’s not as if I don’t have a life. The column is not ...

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Translating Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Work

An interview with David Stromberg

April 30, 2018 • by David Stromberg

You can read the translated essay "Socrates and His Teaching" here on Public Seminar. Q & A with David Stromberg 1. How did you come to be a reader and translator of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s work? How did you find Singer, or how did Singer find you? I don’t know when I ...

Translating Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Work

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Socrates and His Teaching

Isaac Bashevis Singer translated by David Stromberg

April 30, 2018 • by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Socrates is the best-known Greek philosopher among most people. The reason for his fame is not the philosopher himself but his mean wife, Xanthippe. People in no way interested in philosophy know that the great Socrates had a bitter spouse who caused him great suffering. Socrates is also famous for ...

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Are Cities an Environmental Curse or Blessing?

Yes.

April 29, 2018 • by Robert Beauregard

Every day, people in Chicago consume immense quantities of food that arrive from nearby farms, large agri-businesses further afield, and producers around the world. Oranges are sent from citrus groves in Florida, chicken parts from processing plants in South Carolina, bananas from growers in the Dominican Republic, olive oil from ...

Are Cities an Environmental Curse or Blessing?

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Agent Sabina

On the abjection of Julia Kristeva

April 28, 2018 • by Albena Azmanova

Julia Kristeva’s recently released secret service files reveal a similar persona to that which comes through her writing: unruly, witty, courageous. And yet Kristeva is denying the allegations. Is it something other than the truth that she fears? ‘On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth showing through’ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable ...

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The Global Civil War

Gray Reflections on a Gray Friday Morning

April 27, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

It’s a cultural war that here and there sometimes includes guns. It is hard to see the end of it, short of victory or defeat, as it is important to realize it has long been with us. The war is being fought as a struggle between the good guys and ...

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The Origins of Mutuality

How worker co-operation has emerged and re-emerged over time in the City of London

April 27, 2018 • by Ed Mayo

Ask people what they appreciate about London, and money is outranked by the people, the culture, the opportunities and even the parks and green spaces. But when it comes to the City of London, all people remember is finance. My contribution is to unpick some of this association by telling a ...

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Gender and the Politics of Secularism

A conversation between Joan Wallach Scott and Judith Butler on Scott’s latest book Sex and Secularism

April 26, 2018 • by Judith Butler and Joan Wallach Scott

An excerpt from Joan Wallach Scott’s latest book Sex and Secularism can be found here. Judith Butler: Shall we start the interview? I am wondering whether you could describe the decision to work on a book on sex and secularism. What led up to that decision? How does this book follow from your The Politics ...

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Michigan Claims English as Official Language

The Forgotten and Ignored History of U.S. Support for Official Translations

April 26, 2018 • by Rosina Lozano

On February 22 Michigan's house “with no warning” voted in favor of House Bill 4053, which would make English the state’s official language for all public records and public meetings. Republican representative Aaron Miller called it a “great day” and did not see the bill as exclusionary: “We’re not turning ...

Michigan Claims English as Official Language

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Sex and Secularism

An excerpt from Joan Wallach Scott’s latest book

April 26, 2018 • by Joan Wallach Scott

An interview between Judith Butler and Joan Wallach Scott can be found here. As I have studied it here, secularism is not an objective description of institutions and policies but rather a polemical term whose meanings change in the different contexts in which it is deployed. In this book I have ...

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For Conservatives, It’s Stormy Weather

Is the GOP dividing over Trump’s scandalous personal life?

April 25, 2018 • by Claire Potter

Why are so many Christian conservatives refusing to criticize Donald Trump's pay to play sex life? The news of a $130,000 settlement made to porn star Stephanie Clifford, a.k.a. Stormy Daniels, via alleged fixer Michael Cohen, is only the latest episode in which conservative religious leaders and the voters they ...