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Rousseau and Critical Theory

An excerpt from Alessandro Ferrara’s latest book

November 8, 2017 • by Alessandro Ferrara

Among the modern philosophers who have shaped the world we inhabit, Rousseau is the one to whom we owe the idea that identity can be a source of normativity (moral and political) and that an identity's potential for playing such a role rests on its capacity for being authentic. The idea ...

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The People’s Disruption

Platform Co-ops for Global Challenges

November 7, 2017 • by Trebor Scholz

The first platform cooperativism event in 2015 popularized the #platformcoop concept, and the conference a year later brought together co-op and union leaders to push the model forward. This third event will zero in on ways that platform cooperatives can help to address some of the future's most urgent challenges. ...

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Towards Our Fugitive Striving

A Note from the Editors

November 6, 2017 • by Deva Woodly and Christopher Paul Harris

The Context We understand that race is made through the brutal craft of white supremacy: a political, social, economic, and interpersonal formation that both requires and produces anti-blackness to sustain itself. Equally clear to us is that racial “knowledge,” in all its forms, continues to structure our collective experience, both in ...

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Cultural Studies Threatened in Poland

An Interview with Ewa Majewska

November 2, 2017 • by McKenzie Wark

Ewa Majewska, could you first sketch out for me a little about your own work? I am a feminist philosopher who is currently working on theories of subaltern counter-publics in the peripheries, weak resistances, and the avant-gardes. I am also interested in the resistance to fascism, and for this some Habermassian belief ...

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Syllabus: From Goldwater to Trump

A Political History of Tea Party America

November 1, 2017 • by Claire Potter

In order to think this through with students, I re-did the course, and the syllabus below that I am teaching this fall is what I came up with. ___________________________________________________ This course is a survey of United States political history and domestic policy that puts the evolution of the American presidency at its ...

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Judgment and Decision Making

Syllabus for GPSY 6421

October 28, 2017 • by Shai Davidai

#1 01/26 Introduction · How We Know What Isn’t So – Chapters 1-2 · Thinking Fast and Slow – Chapter 1-3 #2 02/02 Heuristics and biases · Thinking Fast and Slow - Chapters 10-15 · Gilovich, T., & Savitsky, K. (1996). Like goes with like: The role of representativeness in erroneous and pseudoscientific beliefs. Skeptical Inquirer, 20, 34-40 · Deri, S., ...

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In the Wake of September’s Georgia Tech Shooting

Mental health on college campuses

October 13, 2017 • by Alice B. Grossman

A few years ago, a close friend at school exhibited signs of mental instability. Whatever he was working through was affecting his own life and happiness as well as that of his friends’. He verbally abused those closest to him and bounced back and forth between interacting as the friend ...

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The Earth Quake, Hurricanes, Political Madness and Dilemmas of Free Speech

The Life of the Mind Online

September 22, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I am bewildered. How can so much bad news be happening at the same time? A major earthquake, one horrendous hurricane after another, the Republicans in Congress on the brink of finally making sure that millions -- old, poor and infirm -- can’t go to the doctor? Then there is President ...

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The Political Landscape Post Charlottesville

Where Should Students and Academics Stand?

September 16, 2017 • by Elena Gagovska

I had thought that the scariest sight that weekend would be the images of the “Unite the Right” rally. Men can be scary enough on their own. Men with violent ideologies are simply terrifying. The white supremacist rally was toxically masculine, looked utterly fascist and sounded like a historical period ...

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The Life of the Mind Online

The Politics of Small Things, Civility and Subversion and Public Seminar

September 14, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The future of scholarly and intellectual life will be decided on the web. The values of scholarship and the application of the fruits of scholarship to the problems of our times will thrive or wither online. It was out of a desire to test this judgment that I started dabbling ...

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The New Authoritarianism and the Structural Transformation of the Mediated Public Sphere IV

Concluding Remarks

August 29, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

It has been an eventful summer. As my dear friend and colleague Robin Wagner-Pacifici would put it, a restless eventful summer: “The world seems out of whack, and everyday routines are, at the least, disrupted. People … experience a vertiginous sensation that a new reality or era may be in the ...