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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 ...

Chantal Mouffe on the crisis within liberal democracy

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Class, Gender and Creative Industries

June 1, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

The fate of cultural studies in the United States appears to be twofold. On the one hand, it still generates moral panic. Right-wing nut-jobbers think that "cultural Marxism" is some insidious, decadent creed, probably created by Jews and Blacks to destroy America. On the other hand, it has finally become ...

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Philosophy and Fashion: Planning a queerly arranged marriage

May 12, 2016 • by Dionysus Mattison

Why think about philosophy and fashion together and why do it now? Why is it immediately odd to even consider such a project? There are a great many reasons, but one of the most profound is the traditional prejudice in philosophy against the body, or against thinking the body and ...

Philosophy and Fashion: Planning a queerly arranged marriage

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Pornography in the Political Domain: A Citizen is Being Beaten

May 11, 2016 • by Dora Suarez

It is election time. I am almost done with the course “Gender and Domination.” However, the echoes of conversations started in that class are proving to be difficult to silence. Among the questions that this seminar has left lingering, the one that has stayed with me the most has to ...

Pornography in the Political Domain: A Citizen is Being Beaten

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Kristeva on Maternal Self-Mourning

May 10, 2016 • by Moises Ramirez

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. In her 1977 essay “Stabat Mater,” Julia Kristeva prominently states, “A mother is a continuous separation, a division of the very flesh. And consequently a division of language -- and it has always been so” (all quotations from essay ...