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Editor’s Note

April 26, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Openness is a fundamental commitment of Public Seminar. The editors, contributors and, I hope, the readers all are committed to "Confronting fundamental problems of the human condition and pressing problems of the day, using the broad resources of social research, we seek to provoke critical and informed discussion by any ...

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‘A Child Is Being Beaten,’ But Where is the Mother?

April 19, 2016 • by Amir Sadeghi

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Beating phantasies, a most common perversion in Freudian psychoanalyses, turn out to be very complicated affairs. “It is only with hesitation that this phantasy is confessed to,” [1] Freud admits, and he will argue that guilt is entangled with beating ...

‘A Child Is Being Beaten,’ But Where is the Mother?

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Psychoanalysis’ Reductio Ad Sex, Beauvior’s Better Critique

March 29, 2016 • by James Wheeler

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. In the chapter of The Second Sex entitled “The Psychoanalytic Point of View,” Simone De Beauvoir ends her exploration of the way in which traditional psychoanalysis treats ideas of womanhood and femininity with a critique of the discipline as ...

Psychoanalysis’ Reductio Ad Sex, Beauvior’s Better Critique

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Donald Trump’s Reductio Ad Penis

March 17, 2016 • by Wayne Wapeemukwa

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. “Look at those hands; are they small hands?” the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination Donald Trump said during the debate on March 3, 2016. Trump added, “And, he referred to my hands -- ‘if they’re small, something else ...

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Voting with your Middle Finger

March 3, 2016 • by Laura Nelson

I almost think that the phenomenon of the “sensible conservative” might be coming back: one whom liberals, social democrats, democratic socialists et. al. can rationally engage in debate and dialogue, and who occasions genuine and mutual respect. There have always been a few around – Andrew Sullivan comes to mind ...

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A Response to Jeff Isaac

February 22, 2016 • by Not An Alternative

This post is a response to Jeff's Isaac's post. 1) Not An Alternative is a collective of artists, activists, designers, and theorists. If you’re curious about who is involved, our names are listed on the NAA website. 2) You are right: “Occupy the Party,” is aimed to your left, to people and ...

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A Response to Occupy the Party

February 21, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

I had read "Occupy the Party” in an earlier version, posted on Facebook. I am glad it is being circulated here on Public Seminar, and would like to offer a brief response. I have four thoughts about this piece. The first no doubt marks me as bourgeois: I don’t really know how ...

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Domination: One or Many?

February 17, 2016 • by Marianna Poyares

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. When approaching the issue of domination and its many forms, one must not overlook that violence is a structural element of domination. However diverse in character different forms of domination may be, they all rely on some account regarding violence ...

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Mothers, Daughters, and Democratic Primaries

February 17, 2016 • by Eli Zaretsky

In “Not Their Mother’s Candidate,” in last Sunday’s New York Times, Susan Faludi purports to situate the difference between women who support Hillary Clinton and women who support Bernie Sanders in terms of the history of American feminism. According to Faludi, this conflict, which first appeared among feminists in the ...

Mothers, Daughters, and Democratic Primaries

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I Dreamed We Were Free

February 15, 2016 • by Moises Ramirez

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. Reflecting on this week’s reading, I must admit that my previous relationship to the concepts of freedom and liberty was under-reflected. La Boetie wrote, “one never pines for what he has never known; longing comes only after enjoyment and constitutes, amidst ...

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It’s a Big Club, and You Ain’t in It: George Carlin as Social and Political Theorist

February 14, 2016 • by Laura Nelson

I recall many years ago, when he was guest-hosting the Tonight show, George Carlin having a somewhat strained political conversation with the comedian Shelley Winters. It was during the waning of the Nixon years, where confidence in government was beginning its slide down to the Stygian depths where it rests ...

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How Many Divisions? Pope Francis, Antonin Scalia and Justice

February 14, 2016 • by Andrew Arato

How many divisions does the pope have? asked Iosif Vissarionowich Dzhugasvilli (alias: Stalin) Pope Pius apparently had few. Pope Francis, a much greater man, however seems to have many. It is the duty of practicing Catholics to obey the pope on moral issues. Pope Francis has eloquently declared, to be sure not ...