By Zeynep Gambetti 1. This is the first time that I’m actually reading book-length texts by individuals who identify themselves as the Alt-Right. And although I couldn’t help but laugh at the sloppiness of the claims half of the time, an… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “Physically removing leftists has gained so much traction because the idea is instinctively both logical and appealing. The means of physically removing leftists, however, is not as simple. While throwing commies from helicopters à la Pinochet has… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The relationship between the Alt-Right and Left critical theory is puzzling, to say the least. For many in the European Alt-Right, Gramsci and the Frankfurt School are the very source of what they believe is the… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The Praxis 3/13 seminar on Bernie Sanders’ Guide to Political Revolution (2017) and the Indivisible’s A Practical Guide to Resisting the Trump Agenda (2017) rubbed against a recurring point of friction at the intersection of critical theory and… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The rich discussion at the Praxis 2/13 seminar on the French anarchist collective, the Invisible Committee’s new book Now (2017), raised two critical issues that continue to haunt me. The first concerns the concept of “ungovernability.” The… Continue Reading
By Ava Kofman, Oct. 25, 2018, New York Times Magazine In the summer of 1996, during an international anthropology conference in southeastern Brazil, Bruno Latour, France’s most famous and misunderstood philosopher, was approached by an anxious-looking developmental psychologist. The psychologist had a… Continue Reading
Readings Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climactic Regime. Polity, 2018. (Special attention to the last chapters, 15 – 20). Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Beacon Press, 1991. Please read… Continue Reading
Readings Friberg, Daniel. The Real Right Returns: A Handbook for the True Opposition. Arktos Media, 2015. Please read this short book quickly. Fair Hearing: The Alt-Right in the Words of its Members and Leaders. Ed. George T. Shaw. Arktos Media, 2018. Please read… Continue Reading
By Clayton Raithel I was drawn to one passage in particular in Bernie Sanders’ Guide to Political Revolution, in which Sanders discusses the concept of usury: The Bible, and virtually every major religion on earth, has a term for this practice.… Continue Reading
Please find here Amna Akbar’s “Toward a Radical Imagination of Law,” on SSRN from the NYU Law Review.