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Bernard E. Harcourt | Introduction to 12/13 on Borders
By Bernard E. Harcourt Border control regimes—like the beams that crumble when you try to drive a screw into them—are rotten and cannot be fixed, but they stand because of all the institutional and economic structures around them act like… Continue Reading
Sania Anwar | Grief, Denied
By Sania Anwar It begins with hope. As it often does for those who believe in its elusive power.[1] “This is a historic moment,” began Professor Bernard E. Harcourt, “The first full day of a new presidential administration . .… Continue Reading
Brittney Bringuez | “Well, the goal for them is to kill him one day.”
By Brittney Bringuez The seventeen state and federal executions that took place in 2020 and Abolition Democracy 8/13’s readings confirm two things. First, the death penalty is more barbaric and atrocious than any adjective could describe and must be abolished.… Continue Reading
Hugo Tardy | Ce que l’hypothèse d’une abolition du travail fait à la théorie critique : la question du sujet révolutionnaire
Par Hugo TARDY Quitter le soleil du travail Si la théorie critique s’est construite sur la nécessité d’une critique du capitalisme comme totalité sociale, il semble que la catégorie du travail soit restée dans son angle mort. Tous les courants… Continue Reading
Heartbeat Opera | Breathing Free Digital Program
S. Shabzadeh | Beyond Property?
By S. Shabzadeh Introduction Capitalist conceptions of property and labor were born in the factories and looms of industrial revolution England in the latter half of the 18th century. The rapid accumulation of wealth by England’s industrialists through the mechanization… Continue Reading
Theo Bleckmann | Lyrics from Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera
English We will not keep the people waiting. Ladies and gentlemen, you see here the vanishing representative of a vanishing class. What is a picklock to a bank share? What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank?… Continue Reading
Bernard E. Harcourt | Productive Tensions in Du Bois, Marx, and Proudhon
By Bernard E. Harcourt The philosopher Amy Allen draws our attention, brilliantly, to a deep tension in the thought of both Marx and Du Bois, one that can be formulated as a question: If we equate wage labor to slavery,… Continue Reading