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The Myth of the Clash Between Islam and the West Revisited

ISIL, media, and adaptation

September 25, 2017 • by Jad Moawad

For instance, when first putting forward their analysis of the myth of the Clash of Civilizations (Bottici and Challand, 2013) in 2009, Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand analyzed the first 20 images that appear when the word al-gharb (West) is searched on Google images[1]. Among the findings, 16 out 20 ...

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The Imaginal Politics of Empire

Thoughts on the images in the new Canadian passport

August 3, 2017 • by Serafina Appel

I. Imaginal Politics In 2013, the Canadian government redesigned Canada’s passports. The thirty-one pages that were until recently covered in faint maple leaves now boast images of two European explorer ships and one sailboat, five war memorials, two trains, one grand waterfall, two groups of policemen, hockey and football players with their ...

Education

The Clash of Civilizations

From Myth to Reality?

July 31, 2017 • by Nardine Luca

Recently, an Egyptian friend of mine posted on Facebook that an Egyptian friend of his tried to apply for an internship in France. The reply he got was shockingly disappointing and not expected at all. Without mentioning the company’s name, it said: “Thanks for your interest in an internship… I ...

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The Psychopathology of the US Elections

Why Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power is Relevant Today

June 5, 2017 • by Leonard Mazzone

When it was published in 1960, Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power did not achieve the acclaim enjoyed by his novel Die Blendung (1935), his dramas Die Hochzeit (1932), Die Komödie der Eitelkeit (1950) and Die Befriesteten (1964) and, later, the many volumes of aphorisms and the three volumes of his ...

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Fascism in America?

Recalling the Know-Nothings and Individual Responsibility

January 17, 2017 • by Justin Humphreys

A prevalent answer to these questions among leftist academics and commentators has been a qualified “yes.” Many view the rhetoric and proposed policies of the new administration as blatantly fascistic in character. I wish to argue that this is incorrect and that using fascism as the central critical concept in ...

Multi Media

Reclaiming Utopia

Challenging the Financial Imagination

January 16, 2017 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

The panel invited provocative reflections from theorists, activists and artists, on the possibilities of reclaiming radical utopias as a response to an increasingly dominant ‘financial imagination’. Set in London, a hub of such financial imagination (imbued with liberal utopian notions of ‘diversity’ and ‘tolerance’), the panel addressed questions such as: ...

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Refugee Movements and the Crisis of Europe

Theoretical Interventions

June 24, 2016 • by Silje Kristine Anderson

This panel discussion probes this crisis from a theoretical perspective and discusses its political implications by asking: What follows from this crisis for the European project, the paradoxes of international law, the role of the nation-state, and the resurgence of nationalism? And how does the emergence of new political practices and subjectivities ...