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Action in the Face of Trumpism and LePageism

Maine’s Augusta Women’s March

January 23, 2017 • by Amy Fried

The Augusta Woman’s March was one of two large gatherings in Maine, each of which hit historic highs of 10,000. Other smaller events in this state of 1.2 million people added up to another 1,000. Organizers and attendees were surprised by the turnouts. Beforehand about 3000 had indicated on Facebook ...

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The Cultural Front:

The San Diego Women’s March

January 23, 2017 • by Elaine Lewinnek

Once we get downtown, the march itself is more diverse. The speakers call out to many racial groups as well as queer, trans, immigrant, veteran, and deaf communities. We end up walking behind a group of Chinese-speakers who have dyed their hair pink. Most people’s signs are homemade: “Rise up!” ...

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Even in Lubbock

Rallying in the Lone Star State

January 23, 2017 • by Emily Skidmore

Given this context, it was amazing to arrive at the rally today to see hundreds of other people (I've seen estimates of anywhere from 400-1000.) We occupied a park on a busy corner, directly across from the university and adjacent to two major streets. It was a diverse crowd of ...

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Land of the Free… to Pick Your Own Reality

How the Left and the Right Select Their Own Facts

January 20, 2017 • by Frédéric Mynard

Yet, given how plainly xenophobic the rhetoric of the Trump campaign was, how happily it flirted with white supremacist groups, and how unapologetically put forward fascist proposals, the racist element cannot just be waved away. As many have put it in the aftermath of the election, maybe not all Trump ...

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How A Conservative Rural Country Defeated A Far-Right Presidential Candidate

The 2016 Austrian Presidential Election

January 18, 2017 • by David Kretz

On the same day, Austrians also voted in the final round of their presidential election. There, center-left candidate Alexander Van der Bellen (Green Party) defeated far-right candidate Norbert Hofer (Austrian Freedom Party, FPÖ) 53.8% to 46.2%. Austria is a small country, but the outcome of this election has international significance ...

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Rape Jokes

The disruptive speech act

January 6, 2017 • by Miranda Young

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. When I first heard that the writer and attorney Vanessa Place had written a performance piece entitled “Rape Jokes,” I was intrigued. Within feminist discussion, the concept of “the rape joke” was always batted down as morally repugnant and triggering, and ...

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Does the Russian Hack Matter?

When the Facts Get Sacrificed to Politics

January 5, 2017 • by Sanford Schram

From the left, I was accused of “left McCarthyism” for thoughtlessly invoking the old, tired stigma of Russian communism; and from the right, I was sent hate mail about how I was resisting Donald Trump as a credible candidate. I got whip-sawed. It remains contested whether Putin, Russia, Russians from outside ...

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Design+Media Theory

December 30, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

GLIB 5610 | Media + Design Theory Syllabus | Spring 2017 | v 5.0 | Our focus will be on key thinkers across the fields of media, design and technology. The course starts our everyday experience of designed and mediated environments, whether as creators or regular users (1-3). It then moves ...

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The Stack to Come

On Benjamin Bratton’s The Stack

December 28, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

What I like most about Benjamin Bratton’s The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (MIT Press, 2015) is firstly its close attention to what I would call the forces and relations of production. We really need to know how the world is made right now if it is ever to be ...

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Book notes from 2016

December 19, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

These are the books I read and got around to working up notes on in 2016. Some will appear in much revised and edited form in: McKenzie Wark, General Intellects (Verso, 2017): https://www.versobooks.com/books/2446-general-intellects Some are lecture notes from 2016 classes, some for future classes in Liberal Studies at The New School: http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/liberal-studies/ Judith Butler, Notes ...

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Since Reagan, Older Workers in Rust-Belt States Flipped from Economic Winners to Losers

December 16, 2016 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

The unemployment rate for older workers age 55 is quite low – 3.5 % about 25% lower than the rate for all Americans of every age. And more good news -- real earnings for older workers across the nation are increasing. But the rosy news hides the downward mobility of workers in particular ...