By Chris Roberts There is a scene in The Blues Brothers that, in the context of the Trump era, has taken on an eerie and uncomfortable sheen. The titular characters are classic “chaotic good”—ex-cons with hearts of gold, outlaws “on… Continue Reading
By Mikhaïl Xifaras Note: This is a draft. Please do not quote or circulate more widely. The Role of the Law in Critical Theory — The case of Property and the Commons — As a Commentary of the first chapter… Continue Reading
By Sami Cleland I. Destitution as Anti-Uprising The Invisible Committee’s Now (2017) provides an interesting follow-up to last year seminar series, which explored the various modalities of uprising. In Now, the Invisible Committee urges destitution the essential, necessary and apt… Continue Reading
By Julian Huertas As Zeynep Gambetti mentioned in her intervention (35:35), one would hardly be motivated to read The Real Right Returns, Why We Fight or A Fair Hearing, if they were not the basic materials for the November 14th… Continue Reading
By Sami Cleland I. Not Just Semantics Our discussion began with an imperative preliminary question: why do we use the term “alt-right” to describe a group of people whose ideology is not merely “alt,” but is explicitly racist, sexist, misogynistic,… Continue Reading
By Emily Hoffman Confronted with texts such as these—“racist, bigoted, anti-semitic, misogynist, xenophobic,” as Bernard Harcourt cataloged, and, I would add, crucially, increasingly popular—the critical mind reaches immediately to a handful of interpretive tactics: to unearth the logic that structures… Continue Reading
By Jeff Stein This week’s readings reveal an ascendant alt-right “metapolitical” strategy; in the words of alt-right leader Daniel Friberg, the movement’s project is to “disseminat[e] and anchor[] a particular set of cultural ideas, attitudes, and values in a society,”… Continue Reading