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Turkey Dismisses Another 786 People from Universities in Post-Coup Crackdown

An Open Letter

January 30, 2017 • by Arien Mack

649 academics, along with more than a hundred administrative staff members, lost their positions at several universities. 41 of the dismissed scholars were members of the Academics for Peace initiative. Since July 2016, more than 120,000 people have been dismissed while nearly 44,000 have been jailed and more than 80,000 detained. ...

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On The Closure of the European University St. Petersburg

A Statement from the Public Sociology Laboratory

January 29, 2017 • by Public Sociology Laboratory

The university is under attack. The initial request to the prosecutor’s office was submitted by Vitaliy Milonov, an odious ultra-conservative member of the Russian State Duma responsible for Russia’s anti-gay laws. This led to the university being raided by 11 various federal oversight services, ranging from the Ministry of Interior ...

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Democracy and Tyranny in the City and the Soul

A reply to Andrew Sullivan on Trump and Plato’s Republic

January 28, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

Sullivan does not sufficiently stress a key component of the analysis offered by Plato: that the nature of the regime that rules the city relates to the nature of the “soul” inside each individual citizen. When we bring that component back in, I think, we can see why Trump is ...

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Media and Publics in Dark Times

An OOPS course

January 26, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The course objective, as I put it in the planned syllabus (responding to an administrative mandate to include such statements): “The objective of this class follows the insights of Michael Oakeshott, the great British (conservative) philosopher, as he illuminated the problem of education and of the liberal arts. He observed that ...

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The Meaning of Michelle

First Black First Lady as Outsider Within and Agent of Change

January 19, 2017 • by Esther Franke

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. There are many aspects of the United States, of the political culture and system that I find interesting (to use a word that is telling without saying anything much). One of them is the office of the First Lady. There is ...

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The Crisis of Dynamic Stabilization and the Sociology of Resonance

An Interview with Hartmut Rosa

January 18, 2017 • by Eli Zaretsky

Hartmut Rosa: Yeah, I actually started my academic career by working on Charles Taylor, the Canadian philosopher and I did that with Axel Honnett, who at that time was at the Free University in Berlin. And this is how I got socialized into the critical theory tradition. And after that ...

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The Philosophy and Psychoanalysis of the Image

A conversation

January 13, 2017 • by Chiara Bottici and Jamieson Webster

On the occasion of Totem & Taboo, an exhibition of new paintings by Daniel Horowitz at Tillou Fine Art (running through January 21), philosopher Chiara Bottici and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster discussed the role of the image in philosophy and psychoanalysis. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of salon-style interdisciplinary ...

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25 Alternatives to Penis Envy

A Preliminary List

January 12, 2017 • by Elizabeth Harnarine Wentling

Penis envy is a catchy term, which is one reason it effectively made its way into popular culture. Coined in Freud’s 1925 Some Psychological Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the Sexes, it is widely misunderstood to mean, or used to perpetuate, the idea that those who posses a penis ...

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Warehouse of Identities

A Neoliberal Delusion

January 9, 2017 • by Florian Endres

Feminism & Capitalism Has second-wave feminism as an epochal social phenomenon unwittingly supplied key ingredients to the new spirit of capitalism named neoliberalism? This is the troubling question Nancy Fraser asks in her lecture Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History.[1] At stake is the possibility that the cultural changes jump-started by ...

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Simianization in the Film “Sing”

Glaring caricature and stereotype provides teachable moment about racial bias

January 9, 2017 • by Jill Corson Lake

The animated film “Sing,” which opened on December 21, features a lazy, tone-deaf, and hurtful character choice by writer and director Garth Jennings. Whether conscious or unconscious, Jennings’ script perpetuates systemic racism and the history of simianization and oppression of black people by depicting them as gorillas, monkeys, and apes. “Sing” ...

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“Reclaiming Utopia”

An Introduction to the Project of Challenging the Financial Imagination

January 3, 2017 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

Dithering between the naiveté of techno-utopias of a fully-automated post capitalism, and the banal indulgence in bureaucratic ‘utopias of rules’, utopian thinking today seems to offer meagre hope for articulating and enacting radical futures. Meanwhile, in the world of financial markets, a formidable imagined future is being methodically produced. Fictional ...

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The Coming Crisis in Healthcare and its Possible Solutions

An Open Letter to Colleagues at the New School and Beyond

January 1, 2017 • by Andrew Arato and Clara Mattei

The subjects we propose to consider are in the area of health policy, and the instruments are in the domain of federalism, to avoid misunderstanding, “progressive federalism,” meaning normatively attractive forms of experimentation on the level of the states. While we strongly believe that similar initiatives are needed in the ...