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Identity & Difference

September 29, 2016 • by Firat M. Haciahmetoglu

A couple of months ago, I attended a symposium in Sweden on Europe and the “refugee problem.” I presented a paper in which I celebrated neither cultural differences nor cultural identity, neither cosmopolitanism nor nationalism. Instead, I underlined the necessary interplay between identity and difference, in the sense that there ...

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American Elections: A Conversation on the Left

In 2016 Andrew Arato and Nancy Fraser looked at the coming election. This is what they had to say.

September 26, 2016 • by Nancy Fraser and Andrew Arato

This dialogue was originally published on September 26 2016: as we make the turn into a new election year, Public Seminar returned to how these influential political theorists imagined left politics. Arato: Nancy we have had a conversation about the elections a week ago in Great Evremond, Mass, and one thing you ...

American Elections: A Conversation on the Left

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Africa contra Hegel

September 24, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

There was once a fantasy, shared by left and right alike, that the states of the under-developed world could come, whether by leaps or by steps, to approximate those of the so-called developed world, as if they represented some kind of historical destiny. This idea belongs to what one might ...

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Why Study the Internet? An Introduction

September 2, 2016 • by Claire Potter

This post is the first installment of the OOPs Course Work, Love, Learn Play: Our Lives on the Internet. An edited version of my introductory lecture, it provides a provisional answer to the question: what is this course about? This course is about discovery. It is about new things, some of which ...

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A Burkini Removed and Secularism Exposed

August 26, 2016 • by Marianne Le Nabat

France has apparently overturned its “burkini ban.” This happened after images surfaced of French police forcing a woman to undress on a beach. It’s worth pausing to consider what secularism even means at this point. Secularism, at the level of the state, means setting public institutions and laws on a universalist footing ...

A Burkini Removed and Secularism Exposed

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Issues in 21c Critical Theory

August 23, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

Below is the course I'll be offering in the Liberal Studies Masters program at the New School for Social Research this semester. There's links below to (most of) the blog posts that will serve as lecture notes. GLIB 5555 | LCST 4458 | Issues in 21 Century Critical Theory | How ...

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It’s Racism, Stupid: The Populist Challenge Going Forward

August 16, 2016 • by Sanford Schram

With the rise (and now fall) of Donald J. Trump’s presidential candidacy, social scientists have moved quickly to understand the surprising levels of support for a person so widely recognized to be unfit for public office. Initial speculation suggested his support grew from multiple sources among the American populace, particularly ...

It’s Racism, Stupid: The Populist Challenge Going Forward

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ULEC2851 | Work, Love, Learn, Play: Our Lives on the Internet

August 16, 2016 • by Claire Potter

This OOPS course begins on Monday August 29. It introduces you to the practice of contemporary history, the history of the future, and the emerging field of Internet Studies. We will explore networked lives through films, fiction, creative non-fiction and critical readings that examine digital culture and virtual relationships. Weekly topics ...

ULEC2851 | Work, Love, Learn, Play: Our Lives on the Internet

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Republicans: When Is Enough Enough?

August 4, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

“I’m not going to make a decision today based on what I know today.” - Michael Steele, former head of the Republican National Committee and a regular commentator on MSNBC. In recent weeks the campaign of Donald Trump has imploded. Trump won the Republican Presidential nomination by disparaging his Republican rivals (“Lyin’ ...

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Letter from an Offspring of the Spanish Civil War

July 19, 2016 • by Vladimir Tismaneanu

In more than one way, I am an offspring of the Spanish Civil War. Both my parents were there, fighting with the International Brigades. My mother, born on July 25, 1915, a Med School student in Bucharest, worked as a nurse at the International Hospital in Barcelona and Vic. In ...

Letter from an Offspring of the Spanish Civil War

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Make Kith Not Kin!

On Donna Haraway

June 24, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

When my daughter was little, we played a game on the way to her preschool called Count the Dog Poo. It was a game about counting, as you would play with any child, but also a game for a little New Yorker, to teach her to watch where she steps. ...

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Chantal Mouffe on the crisis within liberal democracy

June 17, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

Watching the American Presidential Primaries and now the 'Brexit' vote in the UK on leaving the European Union, I am struck by how apt the political theory of Chantal Mouffe is to both situations. Both in the US and the UK, there was a contest as to whether liberal democracy ...