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Politics

We Need to Facilitate Informed Debate about Israel-Palestine

A preface to the open letter in response to “Principles of Solidarity”

November 27, 2023 • by James Miller

Public Seminar's executive editor introduces an open letter reply to Normative Orders research center's "Principles of Solidarity" statement....

Adorno’s Freud in the Age of Trump

Part 1

October 2, 2017 • by Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle

Let us recall Freud's fundamental thesis in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. In this text, Freud presents a general proposition about the process of constitution of collective identities. It is enunciated as follows: "such a primary mass is an amount (Anzahl) of individuals who have placed a single ...

Breitbart, Bannon, Trump, and the Frankfurt School

A strange meeting of minds

September 28, 2017 • by Andreas Huyssen

Breitbart's stated goal in creating the news outlet that bears his name was to attack the "Democrat media complex" with the help of the Internet and social media. Bannon, inspired by Lenin, Julius Evola (a darling of the Italian fascists and today popular with Greek neo-Nazis and Hungarian nationalists), and ...