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Queers, Zombies, and Institutions

A Review of Lorenzo Bernini’s Queer Apocalypses: Elements of Antisocial Theory

November 21, 2017 • by Aaron Neber

Edelman’s words, published in 2004, may seem an already antiquated sentiment: (many) queers can now marry and fight in American wars; the Pope has ordered Christians to atone for the marginalization of LGBT people; and queer theory is fully lodged in American academia, making its charge for revolution resound less ...

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Rousseau and Critical Theory

An excerpt from Alessandro Ferrara’s latest book

November 8, 2017 • by Alessandro Ferrara

Among the modern philosophers who have shaped the world we inhabit, Rousseau is the one to whom we owe the idea that identity can be a source of normativity (moral and political) and that an identity's potential for playing such a role rests on its capacity for being authentic. The idea ...

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Adorno’s Freud in the Age of Trump

Part 1

October 2, 2017 • by Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle

Let us recall Freud's fundamental thesis in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. In this text, Freud presents a general proposition about the process of constitution of collective identities. It is enunciated as follows: "such a primary mass is an amount (Anzahl) of individuals who have placed a single ...

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Adventures of a Postmodern Historian

An excerpt from the new book

September 29, 2017 • by Robert Rosenstone

Eight years after the end my Fulbright, at the beginning of April 1983, I return to Japan for ten weeks in an effort to connect to the world of the nineteenth century, return in an attempt to share experiences and feelings buried in the past -- theirs and my own. How ...

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Why Does a Historian Write a Memoir?

The adventures of a postmodern historian

September 27, 2017 • by Robert Rosenstone

Aurell shows that professional historians have produced some 450 works of autobiography or memoir, the bulk of them in the last few decades. "It is possible," he suggests, "that no other academic discipline can boast of such a high number of autobiographies written by its professionals." Perhaps, then, my work ...

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Being an Activist, Having Privilege

Thoughts from inside the university

September 25, 2017 • by Liz Scheer

On the one hand, this line of thinking makes a great deal of sense to me. "The conversation" will never be "about me" (my own privilege will figure prominently in this essay), nor those like me, since we will never know what it is like to move through an anti-Black ...

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Peter Berger’s Last Visit to The New School for Social Research

Revisiting The Social Construction of Reality

July 1, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Although circumstances did not permit Peter Berger to attend in person The New School’s conference commemorating the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Social Construction of Reality, it was wonderful to have him with us via Skype (nicely captured with me in the accompanying surreal photo). ...

Peter Berger’s Last Visit to The New School for Social Research

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What Happened at Hypatia?

Peer Review, Academic Kinship, and Social Media

May 12, 2017 • by Meryl Altman, Timothy Burke and Claire Potter

In response, over 500 feminists -- a mix of senior, untenured and independent scholars, as well as graduate and a few undergraduate students, signed a letter demanding that Hypatia retract Tuvel’s article. They argue that it “falls short of scholarly standards in various areas,” uses incorrect vocabulary, “deadnames” Jenner (refers ...

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A Utopia for Money

A visit to the secretive art warehouse at the Singapore airport

April 27, 2017 • by Max Haiven

I have visited money’s utopia: it is not only a utopia for those with money, but a utopia for money itself. Sequestered in the winding roads of an industrial park, next to the airport tarmac of one of Asia’s busiest airports, a mere block away from the garrison of the border ...

Theory & Practice

After Capitalism, the Derivative

For Randy Martin

April 9, 2017 • by McKenzie Wark

We forget that Marx’s Capital starts with the appearance of what is new in the world of its time: the abundance of commodities. So why always keep starting with commodities now that they are old, rather than starting with a form of exchange whose abundance is relatively new, with derivatives? ...

Utopia

‘Imagining the Future: Financial Capitalism and the Social Imagination’

March 15, 2017 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Chiara Bottici

Social production of financial futures Fictional expectations in financial markets Economics and science fiction Risk, debt, and futurities Theorizing rationality/irrationality in financial crises Fictitious capital Future presents and present futures Utopian/dystopian sociologies of finance Political economy of sociological imagination(s) Real-estate utopias/dystopias Microcredit and neoliberal imagination Feminist finance and economics ...

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Durkheim’s Enduring Relevance

Sociology offers a solution to the problems raised by Critical Theory

February 7, 2017 • by Nicola Marcucci

Émile Durkheim and the Durkheimian school also allow us to rethink the tension between the modern social sciences, and morality and politics. However, Durkheim’s analysis of this tension is, in some respects, divergent from the one put forward by Critical Theory. Sociology, according to Durkheim, is neither about supplementing the ...