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Presidential Health, Free Pre-K, and Star Trek

Past Present Episode 51

September 22, 2016 • by Neil J. Young, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Nicole Hemmer

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Hillary Clinton’s team announced she has pneumonia after she fell ill at the 9/11 commemoration. Neil argued anxiety over Clinton’s health was really partisan politics, fueled by internet conspiracies like the “Hillary Clinton Parkinson’s” videos. Natalia responded the Hillary ...

Presidential Health, Free Pre-K, and Star Trek

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Comments on Paul Mason’s PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future

June 14, 2016 • by Johanna Oksala

This video was shown at 'The G20 of Philosophy and Economics' in Amsterdam on April1, 2016. The event coincided with the publication of the Dutch translation of Paul Mason's recent book 'Post-Capitalism: A Guide to Our Future' and the opening session was a discussion on it. After Mason's presentation, there ...

Comments on Paul Mason’s PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future

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Chaos, Order & Everything In Between, Diane Vaughan

May 11, 2016 • by Zeyno Ustun

Global events such as the Syrian refugee crisis, the growing challenges to austerity and for a living wage, the protean nature of social media as a news source, and many other situations present us with scenes of chaos, order, and the transitions in between. Such phenomena can result in varying ...

Chaos, Order & Everything In Between, Diane Vaughan

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(En)gendering Health and Illness in the time of Biomedicalization

May 6, 2016 • by Silje Kristine Anderson

How do prevailing ideologies of gender and of biomedicine in the U.S. shape the experience of living in the body? How do they influence how illness is constructed, experienced, and medically managed? This presentation will provide an overview of recent and ongoing research undertaken by the presenter and her collaborators, ...

(En)gendering Health and Illness in the time of Biomedicalization

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OOPS Lecture, Gender and Domination Class by Drucilla Cornell

May 3, 2016 • by Chiara Bottici

In this talk for the "Gender and domination class" Professor Drucilla Cornell (Distinguished Professor, Political Science, Rutgers University) tackles the issue of pornography temptation, by unpacking one of the most controversial issue within feminist discourse.

OOPS Lecture, Gender and Domination Class by Drucilla Cornell

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Book Presentation: Fire and Blood

April 29, 2016 • by Zeyno Ustun

Enzo Traverso presents his latest book, Fire and Blood: The European Civil War 1914-1945. with comments by professors Cinzia Arruzza, Federico Finchelstein, Andreas Kalyvas, and Eli Zaretsky. Fire and Blood (Verso Books) looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914–1945). Its ...

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Aeroplanes and Deportation

April 21, 2016 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School presents a lecture by Wiliam Walters entitled “Aeroplanes and Deportation.” There can be no expulsion without the trains, planes, buses and ships that states use to transport deportees across borders and territories. There can be no deportation without an assortment of guards, pilots, doctors, ...

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2016 Heuss Lecture: The Dialectics of Progress

Rahel Jaeggi

March 30, 2016 • by Silje Kristine Anderson

How should we conceive of social change and moral progress? How do they come about? How are the two phenomena related to each other and how can they be evaluated—as change for the better? These are questions which have repeatedly preoccupied contemporary philosophical discussion and which seem to be indispensable for a critical ...

2016 Heuss Lecture: The Dialectics of Progress

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The Business of Being Made

March 8, 2016 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

Two weeks ago The New School’s Ferenczi Center hosted Katie Gentile and a panel of contributors to celebrate the launch of a new book and a new series. The book, The Business of Being Made: The Temporalities of Reproductive Technologies in Psychoanalysis and Culture, is the first to critically analyze ...

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Bodies in Plural: Toward an Anarchafeminist Manifesto

December 10, 2015 • by Chiara Bottici

Does it still make sense to speak about feminism in a world where gender categories are constantly being reshuffled? What does it mean to be a woman? Can we say “woman” without falling into the charge of essentialism or, even worse, heteronormativity? This lecture addresses such questions by proposing to combine ...

Bodies in Plural: Toward an Anarchafeminist Manifesto

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Memory and History: Harmony or Dissonance

December 9, 2015 • by Zeyno Ustun

On the basis of examples drawn from her own research in Central and Eastern European history before and after the collapse of Communism, Sonia Combe pointed out at this event how eyewitness accounts can improve our knowledge and understanding of history. Memory does not bring only emotion to the historical ...

Memory and History: Harmony or Dissonance

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Theory for the Anthropocene

November 25, 2015 • by Zeyno Ustun

Roy Scranton, Stephanie Wakefield, and McKenzie Wark participated in a lecture on the Anthropocene. Our world is changing. Rising seas, spiking temperatures, and extreme weather imperil global infrastructure, crops, and water supplies. Our greatest enemy, it turns out, is ourselves. The warmer, wetter, more chaotic world we now live in -- the Anthropocene -- demands an intensive rethinking of ...