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The Return of Gilded Feminism?

Alva Belmont vs. the Glam-SAHMs

June 8, 2015 • by David Huyssen and Mary Reynolds

[S]ome of us are the wives or sisters of employers of large numbers of factory operatives, or perhaps ourselves are owners and stockholders in companies. Should not the woman who spends the money which the employees help to provide, take a special interest in their welfare, especially in that of ...

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Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi

June 6, 2015 • by McKenzie Wark

Where Mario Tronti and Antonio Negri were born in the 30s, Berardi (1948) belongs with Paolo Virno (1952) and Silvia Federici (1942) to a second wave of Italian Marxist thinkers who grew out of the workerist current that struck out on its own path, diverging from the official Gramscian postures of the ...

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Communal Luxury

June 6, 2015 • by McKenzie Wark

One of the constant labors required of an open, creative, critical and radical thought is a constant reconstitution of the archive from which present conceptual armatures might most usefully be drawn. Its not just a question of harping on certain well-known proper names, but constituting, over and over, a milieu ...

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Zizek and me

June 4, 2015 • by McKenzie Wark

It is illuminating to have comrade Zizek write about one’s work. I think his comments on Molecular Red highlight two paths among which theory can choose to move at the moment: the high road of philosophy, or the low road of something else, as yet unknown. It is less about the wrong or right ...

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Between Freud and Einstein

On the homology at the heart of modernist art

June 2, 2015 • by Renato Barilli

With this possibility of a coincidence in mind, we may dare to compare the two fundamental contributions given by Sigmund Freud in the field of the humanities and by Albert Einstein in the almost opposite world of the natural sciences. Let us remember the well-known formula on which Einstein’s relativity ...

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Art is the Social Condition: A Proposal for the Marriage of Art and Sociology

June 2, 2015 • by Dominique Suberville

Somewhere at the beginning of the course on the Social Condition, Jeffrey Goldfarb asked us: what is politics? This question aligned with several key issues as our class attempted to explore the meaning of the social condition. Granted, months later, its definition continues to be a shape-shifter, but we’ve turned the question into a ...

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Presidential Elections in Poland: Something Old, Something New

May 26, 2015 • by Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer

The victory of Andrzej Duda, the nationalist, right-wing Law and Justice party’s candidate, came as a shock to many. Yet, in fact, his success over President Bronisław Komorowski, a center-right conservative, supported by the ruling party, Civic Platform, should not have been a surprise. After all, Duda also won the ...

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Fury Road

May 22, 2015 • by McKenzie Wark

Australian film-maker George Miller is a master of the horizontal in cinema, of a certain kind of movement-image, where the landscape sliding away across the screen is a double of the movement of the frames of celluloid through the projector. At his best, Miller makes a cinema of pure kinetics, ...

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Sociology vs. Market Fundamentalism

May 22, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Last night, at The New School for Social Research convocation, I used the occasion of introducing the graduating MAs and PhDs in sociology to reflect on the dangers of market fundamentalism on universities and on the important resistance of our graduates : Looking at the big picture, it is easy to be ...

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My Living Room as a Public Sphere

An Iranian experiment in free society

May 19, 2015 • by Philippe Gonzalez

“I’m not certain that the ideal society should be religious. I start from the premise that the ideal society should be secular.” So spoke documentary filmmaker, Mehran Tamadon, in a conversation with the four conservative mullahs, advocates of the Islamic republic, he invited to be part of his new movie ...

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The Dream of Women’s Emancipation

May 18, 2015 • by Anna Kalashyan

How do socialist feminists of the 21st century theorize struggles against multiple axes and institutions of domination that are inherent to capitalist social order? What do they envision the emancipatory social transformation to look like? Against the background of the global domination of neoliberal values of individualism, entrepreneurship, competitiveness, and self-determination ...

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Animal Spirits

May 15, 2015 • by McKenzie Wark

Rather than read books when they come out, I like to lay them down for a while. Sometimes their flavors get richer, just like wine – and sometimes they turn out to be vinegar. I set aside Matteo Pasquinelli’s book Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons (NAi, 2008) because I did not ...