The Job of Critical Thinking Now

Protest offers a vision of the future that refuses mere recovery

As with those other fault-lines, the problem is not new, as François Hartog reminds us when he writes of “presentism.” Sometime in the twentieth century, we lost our belief in the redemptive power of history and so in the guarantee of a better future. Wendy Brown puts it succinctly: “We know ...
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The Job of Critical Thinking Now