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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 ...

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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 ...