By Teddy Corcoran Knowing I would have to write this post before our Praxis 2/13 meeting, I read The Invisible Committee’s Now several weeks in advance. The results were mixed. I found the book itself to be dangerous, direct, cynical,… Continue Reading
By Sophie Molyneux On a recent evening, sitting in a dark pub waiting for trivia to start, I spoke to new acquaintances I was trying to befriend. Standard introductory topics exhausted, we ventured into the realm of politics. Assuming a… Continue Reading
By Judith Revel Translated from the French by Charleyne Biondi Let’s start with an observation. The recent writings of the Invisible Committee —from The Coming Insurrection 11 years ago, to To Our Friends in 2014 and Now, published last… Continue Reading
(Photo Credit to Sorbonne Library (BIS)/Sylvain Boyer) [Editor’s Note: In The Invisible Committee’s new book, Now (2017), the Committee favorably discusses riots, and develops the notion of destituent power, reviving the historical situation of May ’68 and other insurrectionary communes… Continue Reading
By Ann Stoler I had wanted to thank Bernard for inviting me to think about what critical praxis might look like and about “What is to be done?” that might garner inspiration from (but cannot follow or rely on the… Continue Reading
Judith Revel is Professor of philosophy at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense where she is also a member of the Sophiapol laboratory (Sociologie, philosophie et socio-anthropologie politiques) and director of the research project “Discipliner l’Archive ?” (2016-2018) in… Continue Reading
Jackie Wang is a PhD student at Harvard University. Her academic interests include black studies, prison abolition. She is a poet, essayist, film maker, and performer. Her latest work, The Twitter Hive Mind Is Dreaming is forthcoming from Robocup Press.… Continue Reading
Ken Wark is a professor of media and culture at the New School Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. Professor Warks research interests lie in media theory, new media, critical theory, cinema, music and visual art. Their recent publications include The… Continue Reading
The Jerome Greene Annex is located on 410 West 117th Street. To find the Annex, walk past Jerome Greene Hall (Columbia Law School) on 116th Street headed toward Morningside Drive, make a left into the gated courtyard. Then, within the courtyard, walk past Wien… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Arendt, Hannah. “Truth and Politics.” The New Yorker, Feb. 25, 1967. Bernstein, Richard. Praxis and Action: Contemporary Philosophies of Human Activity.University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971 (pp. ix-xv). Harcourt, Bernard E. 2018. Critique & Praxis: A Pure Theory of Illusions, Values, and Tactics,… Continue Reading