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“The Liberal Idea Has Become Obsolete”

Putin, Geuss and Habermas

July 11, 2019 • by Martin Jay

I was first alerted to Raymond Geuss’s sour anti-commemoration of Jürgen Habermas’s ninetieth birthday, “A Republic of Discussion,” coincidentally on the same day that Vladimir Putin declared the obsolescence of liberalism in a meeting with Donald Trump. Trump, with the exquisite cluelessness that has made him so easy to mock, ...

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During A Trial Not Resembling Any Other, in a Court Unlike Any Other

The first elected Egyptian president has died

July 11, 2019 • by Gamal Eid

In a building much-feared by political prisoners, infamous for being a torture pit during former dictator Hosni Mubarak's reign -- partially transformed later to a court; former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has died. In a glass cage inside an iron cage, in a court inside the Ministry of Interior’s Police Academy, ...

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“What Makes Us Feel Special About Our Connections To Violence?”

A Conversation with Lindsey A. Freeman

July 8, 2019 • by Lindsey A. Freeman and Bizaa Zeynab Ali

--- Public Seminar (PS): How did this project emerge and evolve over time? Can you tell us something about your methodology and how you arrived at the decision to use the method of “sociological poetry” for your narrative. The writing in this book has a very lyrical quality to it and ...

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Banner Tales

Material culture and the making of solidarity

July 6, 2019 • by David Featherstone and Diarmaid Kelliher

The miners’ strike workshops were developed alongside an ongoing project called Banner Tales, which is a collaboration between geographers and Glasgow Museums staff. This work has encouraged us to reflect on the relationship between material cultures and the makings of solidarity. In both projects we have been involved in using banners ...

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The Unemployment Rate Is Not a Fact

Our country’s most trusted economic metric is only a political artifact.

July 5, 2019 • by Patrick Sheehan

The year was 1875 and Carrol Wright was upset. The mustached state senator from Massachusetts thought that American workers had a problem. Just not the problem that the workers thought they had. Following the financial Panic of 1873 and nosediving wages, Americans were launching wildcat strikes, torching railroad stations, and fighting ...

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Decolonizing Money in Puerto Rico

The Valor y Cambio project

July 2, 2019 • by Frances Negrón-Muntaner

To investigate what Puerto Ricans and other residents of the island and the diaspora value, and how the current economy can respond to most people’s needs, artist Frances Negrón-Muntaner collaborated with Sarabel Santos Negrón to launch a community currency project Valor y Cambio (Value and Change). Negrón-Muntaner, who is also a curator, filmmaker, and professor at Columbia ...

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Wounds Yet to Scar: Collective Memory in Contemporary Chilean Video Art

Memory and trauma in Remembering What Is at Lunds Konsthall

July 1, 2019 • by Max L. Feldman

In the film, Guzmán and his crew interview members of the increasingly split electorate. They attend rallies, ride buses, and show up in modern high-rise apartments, asking the people they meet the same two questions: “Who will win the election?” and “How do you see the future?” This film plays a ...

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Committees Are for Straight People

LGBTQ people want equality now — here are three things you can do

June 30, 2019 • by Jessica Halem and Jen Manion

Queer, trans, and gay people have long been refused work, denied advancement opportunities, and fired for reasons relating to their being out -- and sometimes too proud. Employment nondiscrimination protections matter but they do not address subtler forms of bias in hiring and promotion, such as whether LGBTQ people who ...

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“After Stonewall” Exhibitions Remind Us That Queer History Shouldn’t Be Straightforward

Stonewall on show at the NYPL, the New York Historical Society, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum

June 29, 2019 • by Hannah Leffingwell

For visitors to these commemorative exhibitions, the broad similarities largely stop there. While all three institutions have chosen the Stonewall riots as the epicenter of their curatorial narratives, their reasons for doing so differ. At the New York Public Library, the riots serve to anchor a larger narrative arc of ...

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The Dishonest Images of the Anti-Abortion Movement

Anti-abortion activists don’t seem to care about what a fetus actually looks like

June 27, 2019 • by Laura Hooberman

The advertisement incorporates a number of visual and discursive strategies commonly deployed by abortion rights opponents. It relies, for instance, on oversimplified and misleading rhetoric as the vehicle for its messaging, a tactic identifiable across the spectrum of anti-abortion propaganda. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a fetus is incapable of feeling ...

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Transsexuality as an Emotional Situation, Aesthetics and a State of Mind

A question of difference.

June 27, 2019 • by Oren Gozlan

--- The problem of sexual difference is, for obvious reasons, of paramount importance in the field of Trans Studies. Historically, the psychoanalytic clinic has leaned on the symbolic oppositions between phallic/castrated, masculine/feminine, and absence/presence in understanding sexual difference. Patricia Gherovici’s recent book “Transgender Psychoanalysis” speaks to the new generation of people ...

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Transgender Psychoanalysis

Lacan, sex, and sinthomes

June 26, 2019 • by Sheila L. Cavanagh

--- On April 20, 2016, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek described “transgenderism” as an attempt to undermine sexual difference. In other words, he contended that transpeople are reducing what is, for Lacanian psychoanalysis, an unavoidable sexual impasse to an identity-based human rights discourse (that fits nicely into the neo-liberal capitalist order).[i] He suggested that ...