By Bernard E. Harcourt In his essay “The Role of Law in Critical Theory,” and in dialogue with Etienne Balibar and Camille Robcis at the Praxis 5/13 seminar on “The Common”, Mikhaïl Xifaras proposes an expansive view of law: Law… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt in the New York Review of Books on-line November 29, 2018 President Trump makes constant use of the language and logic of the “new right,” a toxic blend of antebellum white supremacy, twentieth-century fascism, European far-right movements… Continue Reading
By Etienne Balibar Law, Property, Politics A rejoinder to Mikhail Xifaras’ “The Role of Law in Critical Theory” It is a great pleasure to take part in the discussion of Mikhail Xifaras’ remarkable paper on “The Role of Law in… Continue Reading
Jeremy Scahill at The Intercepted, Nov. 14, 2018 DONALD TRUMP IS waging a political counterinsurgency. This week on Intercepted: We lay out and discuss the multidecade history of paramilitarized politics in the U.S., how the tactics of the war on… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “The Common” takes us back to the material roots of praxis—to Marx, to capital, to private property, to the idea of the common. It does so, though, by once more flipping the master on his head. The… Continue Reading
“’Cultural Marxism’ is not only a sad diversion from framing legitimate grievances but also a dangerous lure in an increasingly unhinged moment.” Sam Moyn has this important essay on the toxic history of the term “Cultural Marxism” in the New York… Continue Reading
Andreas Huyssen, “Breitbart, Bannon, Trump, and the Frankfurt School,” Public Seminar, Sept. 28, 2017 Martin Jay, Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment: The Frankfurt School as Scapegoat of the Lunatic Fringe, CISA Blog, Dec. 22, 2011. Josh Harkinson, “Meet the White Nationalist Trying To Ride… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Commonwealth (Harvard, 2009), preface and chapters 1.1, 1.2, 6.2 and 6.3 Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Assembly (Oxford, 2017), chapter 6 Secondary Readings Etienne Balibar, “The Expropriators are expropriated,” Paper presented at the International Conference: Marx’s Capital after… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “Political Warfare Attacks – A Primer. As used here, “political warfare” […] refers to political warfare as understood by the Maoist Insurgency model. Political warfare is one of the five components of a Maoist insurgency. Maoist methodologies… Continue Reading
By Karl Ekeman The question of the relation between theory and practice that this year’s 13/13 seminar has set as its theme has a striking parallel in the discourses on strategy within the intellectual traditions from which the alt-right draws their… Continue Reading