Issues for the week of October 23, 2019 - Public Seminar

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Week of October 23

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Capitalism
2nd Week Prev. Rank: 1
The KonMari Method as Consumer Theory
Andrew C. McKevitt
Andrew C. (Drew) McKevitt is associate professor of history at Louisiana Tech University. He recently published a book called Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America.
The Anxiety Industry
A.T. Kingsmith
A. T. Kingsmith is co-founder of EiQ Technologies and a PhD candidate researching the political economy of anxiety at York University.
Conflicting Claims
Michael C. Dawson
John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago.
Sex and Gender
First Week New Issue
Flash Count Diary
Darcey Steinke
Faculty in Creative Writing, Schools for Public Engagement, The New School
The Many-handed Hunger of Transsexuality
McKenzie Wark
Professor of Culture and Media, New School for Social Research
Trans Bodies/Trans Identities
Arlene Stein and Tey Meadow
Democracy
3rd Week Prev. Rank: 0
Keeping the Left Alive: Michael Walzer’s Political Action Reissued
Geoffrey Kurtz
Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Social Sciences at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
What Are Iranians Dreaming about Today?
Kian Tajbakhsh
Academic Fellow at Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought and Senior Advisor at Columbia Global Centers
For Democracy / Against Cynicism
Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Founding Editor of Public Seminar, Senior Fellow at the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, and chair of the Democracy Seminar
The Soviet Roots of Democratic Crisis in Latvia
Maija Spurina
Juris Padegs Postdoctoral Associate at Yale MacMillan Center