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Agnes Heller Awarded Second Annual Courage in Public Scholarship Award

July 19, 2016 • by Judith Friedlander

TCDS is happy to announce that the eminent philosopher and activist Agnes Heller, NSSR Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, was awarded the second annual Courage in Public Scholarship Award by theNew School for Social Research Europe Collective at the 25th Anniversary Democracy & Diversity Institute in Wroclaw, Poland on July 16, 2016. Below is ...

Agnes Heller Awarded Second Annual Courage in Public Scholarship Award

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Remembering Jerome Bruner

July 15, 2016 • by William Hirst

Jerome Bruner, the George Herbert Meade Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research from 1981 until 1991, died June 5^th at the age of 100. Jerry spent his century engaged in life fully. Not only was he one of the most influential figures in psychology, ...

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Democracy Then and Now

July 13, 2016 • by Elzbieta Matynia

Elzbieta Matynia's reflections on one of the great projects of The New School for Social Research, marking the twentieth five years of the Democracy and Diversity Institute in Poland. We worked together on this even before the Institute was established, working with independent intellectuals, academics and activists in the Democracy ...

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Gianni Vattimo Interview

July 11, 2016 • by Claudio Gallo

Gianni Vattimo is considered to be among the most important living European philosophers, alongside Charles Taylor, and Jürgen Habermas. Known for his interpretation of Nietzsche's and Heidegger's philosophies, he also developed a postmodern theory he calls "weak thought," meant to question the hard objectivity of claims in religion, politics, and ...

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Biopolitics And The Compulsion Of Being-Born

July 11, 2016 • by Dora Suarez

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Bringing the voices of Chiara Bottici and Paul B. Preciado together, my aim is to show there is a way in which their respective reflections on the nature of the biopolitical turn could be seen as complementary. I begin ...

Biopolitics And The Compulsion Of Being-Born

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The Importance of Losing ‘Virginity’

July 5, 2016 • by Kayla Heisler

I first questioned the concept of virginity’s validity when I was eighteen. I had just watched a Laci Green video entitled ‘Let’s Lose Virginity,’ and it depicted ‘virginity’ as a harmful myth created to oppress women. Reading Simone De Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex,’ a text that demonstrates why the myth ...

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Does Nicki Minaj Portray the Image of a Phallic Mother?

June 7, 2016 • by Elena Petrovska

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. While getting ready for classes one morning, I caught myself singing along to a Nicki Minaj song and nailing the rap part quite well. What caught my attention even more was that memorizing these lyrics gave me a boost ...

Does Nicki Minaj Portray the Image of a Phallic Mother?

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Judith Butler and The Many Subjects of Feminist Theory

June 6, 2016 • by Tiago Lima

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Despite their differences, various authors of feminist theory have been mobilized by a similar question regarding the subject of feminism -- more precisely, what kind of theory of the subject is most productive for the feminist debate? Ever since ...

Judith Butler and The Many Subjects of Feminist Theory

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Toward A Feminism Beyond The Additive Model

June 3, 2016 • by Amir Sadeghi

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. It’s no secret that feminism has undergone paradigmatic and (sometimes) unfortunate changes attributed to the gestures of the neoliberal turn. Nancy Fraser critiques the desaturated concern for social and gender justice that characterizes a new neoliberal feminism -- one ...

Toward A Feminism Beyond The Additive Model

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Black Feminist Thought And The Pitfalls Of A Critical Mass

June 2, 2016 • by Moises Ramirez

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Analyzing the common experience of racism in everyday life, Patricia Hill Collins does not attack the issue from a purely academic stance, but instead uses her daily life experiences to inform her critique. In "The Social Construction of Black ...

Black Feminist Thought And The Pitfalls Of A Critical Mass

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Are Professors Safe When Students Carry Guns?

June 2, 2016 • by Simone Gubler

In light of the tragic shooting this week of UCLA professor William S. Klug, apparently by a student over grades, Public Seminar is reprinting this essay by Simone Gubler. Last year, the Texas legislature voted to allow students to carry concealed handguns onto public campuses. Gubler discusses the impact of ...

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Resistance and Resurgence of the Métis

The red that dies the maple leaf

June 1, 2016 • by Wayne Wapeemukwa

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. On April 14, 2016, Grandma emailed me; the subject read: “Status.” That day, in Daniels vs. Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada legally granted Indian status to all non-status Indians and Métis. Grandma is not Métis, but I am. ...
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