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Can Gillette’s New Ad Turn Minds as Well as Heads?

Even as ‘virtue schooling’ widens the political divide, a new discussion space is up for grabs

February 1, 2019 • by Vira Sachenko

When I started seeing headlines about the Gillette ad backlash, I assumed that the online reverberations came from feminists frustrated that the new advertisement was not “new” enough: too generic, too vague, too still-just-selling-razors. As it turned out, most of the online anger came from men who felt that the advertisement’s call ...

Can Gillette’s New Ad Turn Minds as Well as Heads?

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The Power of Platforms

How biopolitical companies threaten democracy

January 25, 2019 • by Janosik Herder

The 2010s will likely be remembered as the decade of the rise of platforms. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Airbnb, Uber -- all of these companies have become more than just billion-dollar businesses. Over the last ten years they have started to play an essential role in the everyday life of most ...

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The New History of Capitalism

And what it owes to poststructuralism

January 9, 2019 • by Andrew Seal

Where did the new history of capitalism come from? I would like to break from the common sense narrative and argue that the new history of capitalism should not be understood as rooted in or as a response to the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Certainly the crisis drew attention to the field ...

Blue Monday

Trump Unleashed

End-of-Year Thoughts on the Chaos That is Trumpism

December 31, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

“Yes, Trump’s foreign policy is a chaotic, incoherent, dangerous mess. Yes, he is clearly and manifestly unfit for office, and should have been removed a long time ago . . . But I find Trump’s persistence in following his electoral mandate against so much Establishment pressure in this particular respect ...

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The Way We Shop Now

How American fiction has helped decode the history of capitalism

December 1, 2018 • by Sara Georgini

Consider the salesgirl. This holiday season, as we navigate the nation’s retail theatre in stores and online, let’s think about the ideas and ideologies of the diverse Americans at work behind the counter. Hero or villain, peddler or pauper, capitalist superhero or covert anarchist: the figure of the salesman has ...

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Life and Debt under Capitalism

An excerpt from Elettra Stimilli’s The Debt of Living

November 23, 2018 • by Elettra Stimilli

From the beginning, capitalism has established an intimate connection with individual lives, formerly based on the exploitation of specific skills in the form of work. The real change is that today at stake are not only specific services, but the whole of life and the very capacity of human living ...

Democracy

The Crisis of Democracy is a Crisis of the Left

A capitalism transformed by a strong version of social democracy should be our political goal

November 13, 2018 • by Michael Walzer

It is a crisis for democracy when the left is weak and unable to mobilize its natural constituency. All I want to do today is to unpack that sentence. Why is this a crisis? Democracy requires some degree of equality, but capitalism and neo-liberal economic policies produce inequality: a steady pressure ...

The Crisis of Democracy is a Crisis of the Left

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Space Race Remixed

The mythical war between capitalisms

October 9, 2018 • by Sarah Murphy

For centuries we have tried to unravel the mysteries of the universe and images have been vital to that unravelling. At different points in history the moon has been held responsible for insanity, fertility, and even home to alien life. But mostly, these celestial bodies have remained a mere twinkling in ...

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Bagel Capitalism

September 18, 2018 • by Peter Dreier

As we approach Yom Kippur, a day of both fasting and forgiveness, I wish to offer a sermon about food. Specifically, the bagel, which has become both a symbol and symptom of some of the worst aspects of American capitalism. Let me explain. Growing up in Plainfield, N.J. in the 1950s, ...

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The Illusion of Non-Capitalist Spaces

Capitalism requires zones that appear to be withdrawn from the circuitry of capital so that workers can cultivate their bodies and minds

September 14, 2018 • by Victor Lund Shammas

Why hasn’t capital swallowed up the entire world yet? If we accept the machinic, all-encompassing vision of Capital, why hasn’t the Earth’s surface been totally blanketed by it? Why hasn’t everything been chewed up, guzzled down, and spit out again by capital? One of the first things to strike the ...

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His Body Shop

Issues around the market of self-care

September 11, 2018 • by Paula Landerreche Cardillo

In the past few weeks a new advertisement campaign has invaded the New York City subway. A brand that claims to solve “men’s issues” called hims covers the walls and advertising panels of subway stations and trains. Hims is a brand that sells products to address “men’s issues” such as hair loss, skin imperfections ...

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Race and Capitalism

Welcoming Michael Dawson to the New School

September 5, 2018 • by Mayra Cotta

In recent decades, the study of race and capitalism -- which reaches back to the masterful works of Du Bois, Eric Williams, Stuart Hall, James Boggs, Angela Davis, Cedric Robinson, Cornell West, Kimberlee Crenshaw, Adolph Reed, just to name a few -- has been marginalized in favor of post-structuralist or ...