By Bernard E. Harcourt Praxis 9/13 on “Left Populism” opened with the provocative question whether Bernie Sanders is a left populist. The discussion began with an excerpt from the very first pages of Bernie Sanders’ Guide to Political Revolution: The… Continue Reading
By Amy Allen The resurgence of authoritarian politics around the globe, but especially in the United States and Europe, has left critical theorists scrambling for explanations. Although it seems clear that any sufficient analysis of this phenomenon has to take… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “The only scientific thing to do is revolt! Movements, not just individuals, are critical. […] Revolt! Think we must; we must think. Actually think, not like Eichmann the Thoughtless. Of course, the devil is in… Continue Reading
By Sami Cleland Banu Bargu’s Strave and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons and Tarek El-Ariss’ Leaks, Hacks and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age were the extremely interesting companion pieces that spurred our Praxis 12/13 discussion on the old and… Continue Reading
A Summary of Karuna Mantena’s Presentation By Emily Gruber There are two enigmas in Banu Bargu’s book, Starve and Immolate. The primary lies in understanding the ethnography of the fast as in some ways a logic of sacrifice that seemed… Continue Reading
A Summary of Susan Buck-Morss’s Presentation By Hannah Rose Liberman Banu Bargu’s book, Starve and Immolate, is both rigorous and inventive in how it puts the theoretical and empirical elements together. Rather than simply a historical, empirical account, Bargu offers an… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt And God willing, after madness, illness, crime, sexuality, the last thing I would like to study would be the problem of war and the institution of war within what one might term the military dimension of… Continue Reading
Published in Critical Inquiry: Vol 39, No 1 (2012) The political phenomenon that was born in Zuccotti Park in the fall of 2011 and spread rapidly across the nation and abroad immediately chal-lenged our vocabulary, our grammar, our political categories—in short,… Continue Reading
By Marianne Hirsch At the beginning of her Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, Judith Butler tells us that she wrote these essays in the midst of the massive popular uprisings at the start of our decade. We are discussing… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “when bodies assemble on the street, in the square, or in other forms of public space (including virtual ones) they are exercising a plural and performative right to appear, one that […] delivers a bodily demand… Continue Reading