By Nandini Sundar The rich will make temples for Shiva, What shall I, a poor man do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head a cupola of gold. Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,… Continue Reading
Robin Celikates is an associate professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He is also an associated member of the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) in Frankfurt am Main, where he… Continue Reading
Joshua Clover is a Professor of English at UC Davis. Professor Clover specializes in critical theory, Marxism, political theory, political economy, poetry and poetics. His interests include social movements, social reproduction theory, crisis theory and the end of capitalism. He… Continue Reading
I. The Call for Abolition In The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study, Moten and Harney examine the University, Debt, Politics and Logistics to help us grasp how these (and other) institutions, organizations and capitalist mechanisms (including the State as… Continue Reading
By Zulaikha Ayub and Daniela Gandorfer [T]he master sets a problem, our task is to solve it, and the result is accredited true or false by a powerful authority. It is also a social prejudice with the visible interest… Continue Reading
By Allegra McLeod The slogan on the Left . . . ‘universities, not jails,’ marks a choice that may not be possible. In other words, perhaps more universities promote more jails. Perhaps it is necessary finally to see that… Continue Reading
By Marquis Bey Having been tasked with meditating on critique and praxis via the generative call of Bernard Harcourt but also, more fundamentally, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, I’ve come to a reticent conclusion that there may be no “end.”… Continue Reading
By Jack Halberstam At the end of the film Looking for Langston (1989), Isaac Julien’s beautiful meditation on the life and desires of Langston Hughes, a mixed group of black and white gay men are dancing in a warehouse. As… Continue Reading
By Didier Fassin Chantal Mouffe builds her manifesto for a left populism on a relatively straightforward political diagnosis. First, we are living through a populist moment, populism being defined as the discursive strategy opposing the elite and the people. It… Continue Reading
By Jean L. Cohen Invoking Polanyi to help diagnose populism is very much in vogue. But, as Adam Tooze noted in a recent blog post, the Polanyian church is broad. It includes academics in a variety of disciplines (philosophy, political… Continue Reading