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Power and Crisis

Isaac Ariail Reed and Michael Weinman, editors.
Colin Laidley, managing editor.

A collaboration between faculty at the University of Virginia, Bard College Berlin and The New School for Social Research, this Public Seminar platform provides a forum for the study of power in a time of social crisis and political transformation. We explore power, violence and the activist life by engaging with histories of the present. We ask: what historical trajectories of domination inform the present? How should we think about the history of the “modern” era in the light of the current crisis of democracy? Informed by the thought of Hannah Arendt, the vertical explores the evanescent present between past and future.

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From Casting Director to Failed Coup
March 6, 2018Phyllis Jeffrey
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A Revolution in the Polling Booths?
March 5, 2018Mátyás György Endrey
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The Current Situation in Catalonia
March 4, 2018Lucia Pradel
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America’s Hunger Games
March 4, 2018Siobhan Kattago
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Contextualizing Catalonia
March 1, 2018Skyler Maassen, Lucia Pradel, Leng Wah Sing
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The City Does Not Belong to its Inhabitants
February 27, 2018Ido Nahari
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A Conversation We Must Not Stop Having
February 5, 2018Elena Gagovska
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Milo in Berkeley
January 23, 2018Michael Weinman
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Thinking After C’ville
January 12, 2018Marcus Toure B. McCullough
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Martin Luther King’s “False God of Nationalism”
January 9, 2018Vaughn A. Booker
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#Charlottesville: Before and Beyond
January 2, 2018The Editors
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No-Platforming, “Unite the Right,” and New Free Speech Debate
December 26, 2017Michael Weinman

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Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics, and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers.

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