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