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Posts 6-13

Bruno Latour on Truth and Praxis

December 16, 2018Bernard Harcourt

By Bernard E. Harcourt  “The hypothesis [of this book] is that we can understand nothing about the politics of the last 50 years if we do not put the question of climate change and its denial front and center. Without… Continue Reading →

Posts 6-13

Marginalia on Marcuse and The Counterrevolution

December 16, 2018Bernard Harcourt

By Bernard E. Harcourt I was struck, in preparing the seminar on the Frankfurt School and praxis, to reread Herbert Marcuse’s 1972 book, Counterrevolution and Revolt, and to be reminded, once again, of how prescient Marcuse was regarding our present… Continue Reading →

Posts 6-13

The Late Frankfurt School on Theory and Praxis (circa 1970)

December 16, 2018Bernard Harcourt 1 Comment

By Bernard E. Harcourt  The student revolts of the late 1960s and 1970s brought the tension between theory and practice to a head within the Frankfurt School. Two starkly opposed positions emerged, represented on the one hand by Herbert Marcuse… Continue Reading →

Posts 6-13

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  • Nikita Shepard | Becoming Ungovernable: A Reassessment
  • Bernard E. Harcourt | Epilogue 2/13
  • Jackie Wang | Trauma Monsters and Feminist Forms of Life
  • Judith Revel | Maintenant: la politique, mais sans la vie (version française)
  • Judith Revel | Now: Politics, but lifeless (English version)
  • Bernard E. Harcourt | A Reader’s Guide to The Invisible Committee’s *Now* (2017)
  • Arlette Farge | Émeutes du XVIIIe siècle
  • McKenzie Wark | Confusion to Our Enemies
  • Bernard E. Harcourt | Introduction to Invisible Committee’s *Now*

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  • Sami Cleland | The Invisible Committee Preview
  • Darshana Mitra | Post-Seminar Book Review
  • Julian Huertas | To Destitute the World
  • Chris Roberts | Unconvinced
  • Jackie Wang | A Critique of The Theory of Bloom by Tiqqun (2010)
  • Teddy Corcoran | Why I Didn’t Want to Write This
  • Sophie Molyneux | Homework as praxis / candour / exposure / commitment / navel-gazing / theory
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  • Judith Revel
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  • Bernard E. Harcourt | Epilogue 3/13
  • Clayton Raithel | Bernie Sanders, the Critical Theorist
  • Ghislaine Pages | Revolutionary in Rhetoric Only
  • Brandon Terry | Rethinking the Problem of Alliance: Organized Labor and Black Political Life
  • Amna A. Akbar | Gross Collective Action
  • Bernard E. Harcourt | An Introduction to Political Revolution

RESOURCES

  • Sophie Molyneux | What is to be done? At least something?
  • Amna A. Akbar | “Toward a Radical Imagination of Law”
  • Indivisible | “A Practical Guide to Resisting the Trump Agenda”
  • Shira Palti | Book Review for 3/13
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  • Amna Akbar
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POSTS

  • Bernard E. Harcourt | How Trump Fuels the Fascist Right (NYRB)
  • Bernard E. Harcourt | Epilogue 4/13: Neo-fascist-white-supremacy-ultranationalist Counterrevolutionaries
  • Renata Salecl | Emotions and the Praxis of Alt-Right
  • Karl Ekeman | On Gramscianism of the Right
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  • Bernard E. Harcourt | Introduction to “Critique & the Alt-Right”

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  • Chris Roberts | The Leftist Origins of the Alt-Right, And Their Inchoate But Dangerous Metapolitics
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  • Some Readings on the Frankfurt School and the Alt-Right
  • Julian Huertas | The Alt-Right and the Time to Fight Back
  • Sami Cleland | The Alt-Right – Post Seminar Review
  • Emily Hoffman | Race, Affect, and Antifascist Praxis
  • Jeff Stein | Strategic Speech Tactics and Alt-Right Metapolitics
  • Teddy Corcoran | Power and Logic: A Response to Praxis 4/13
  • Diana Moreno | The Power of Reframing

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  • Bernard E. Harcourt | Epilogue: On the Political Economy of (Big) Law
  • Camille Robcis | Radical Psychiatry, Institutional Analysis, and the Commons
  • Etienne Balibar | Law, Property, Politics
  • Mikhaïl Xifaras | The Role of the Law in Critical Theory
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POSTS

  • Bruno Latour on Truth and Praxis
  • Marginalia on Marcuse and The Counterrevolution
  • The Late Frankfurt School on Theory and Praxis (circa 1970)

RESOURCES

  • Ava Kofman | Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science
  • Praxis 6/13 | READINGS
  • “Marginalia to Theory and Praxis”
  • Praxis 13/13 | BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • The Virtual 13/13 | How to Access and Participate in Praxis 13/13 From Afar

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  • Martin Saar

POSTS

  • Bernard E. Harcourt | How To Do Things With Yellow Vests
  • Bernard E. Harcourt | Compagnon de route [Fellow Traveler]
  • Étienne Balibar | Gilets jaunes: le sens du face à face
  • Étienne Balibar | ‘Gilets jaunes’: The Meaning of the Confrontation
  • Ludivine Bantigny | Un événement
  • Antonio Negri | French Insurrection
  • Antonio Negri | Gilets jaunes: Un contropotere?
  • Antonio Negri | Reflections on the seventh round of the Gilets Jaunes

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  • Praxis 7/13 “Gilets jaune” | READINGS / LECTURES
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  • Etienne Balibar
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POSTS

  • Shaunna Rodrigues | Epilogue to 8/13
  • Rosalind Morris | The Idea of Communism: Notes on the Singular and the Universal with reference to Africa and Asia Or, What’s Anthropology Got to Do with It?
  • Bernard E. Harcourt | Introduction to the Idea of Communism
  • Aristides Baltas | History, historiography and political practice
  • Aristides Baltas | The Names of Communism?

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  • Praxis 8/13 | READINGS
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  • Aristides Baltas
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  • Bernard E. Harcourt | Disambiguating Populism
  • Nikita Shepard | Epilogue to 9/13
  • Rosalind Morris | For Rejecting a Left Populism
  • Steven Lukes | Not a Populist, But A Post-Truth Moment
  • Didier Fassin | On Left Populism
  • Seyla Benhabib | Brief Reflections on Populism (Left or Right)
  • Aysen Candas | Left Populist “Strategy” as Affective-Identitarianism
  • Jean L. Cohen | What’s Wrong with the Normative Theory (and the Actual Practice) of Left Populism?
  • Federico Finchelstein | Populism of the Left?
  • Bernard E. Harcourt | Introduction to Left Populism

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  • Bojan Bugaric | On Populism and Constitutionalism
  • John Finnegan | Don’t Fear the People
  • Nadia Urbinati | Political Theory of Populism
  • Jan-Werner Müller | The Rise and Rise of Populism?
  • Praxis 13/13 | BIBLIOGRAPHY
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  • Zulaikha Ayub and Daniela Gandorfer | Thinking Should Not Take (A) Place
  • Heather Love | Praxis & The Undercommons
  • Allegra McLeod | Toward Abolition
  • Marquis Bey | Critical Praxis Toward No “End”
  • Jack Halberstam | Strategy of Wildness
  • Bernard E. Harcourt | Introduction to The Undercommons: Beyond Critical Praxis

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  • Sami Cleland | Book Review of The Undercommons
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  • Robin Celikates | Assembling: Beyond Hegemony?
  • Joshua Clover | Two Questions of Assembly
  • Nandini Sundar | “We, the people” are more than a “traffic jam”
  • Marianne Hirsch | Bodies That Assemble: Some Notes on Vulnerability
  • Bernard E. Harcourt | Assembly: An Introduction

RESOURCES

  • Jeff Stein | Shaping the Physical Assembly and Constituting a Virtual “People”
  • Julian Huertas | Assemblies, People and Democracy in 2019
  • Julian Huertas | The Precarity of the People
  • Bernard E. Harcourt | Political Disobedience
  • McKenzie Wark | What the Performative Can’t Perform: On Judith Butler
  • Praxis 13/13 | BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • The Virtual 13/13 | How to Access and Participate in Praxis 13/13 From Afar

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POSTS

  • Dispatch from Turkey | The Labor of Living and Dying
  • Sami Cleland | Epilogue on Praxis 12/13
  • Karuna Mantena | Abjection and Agency
  • Susan Buck-Morss | On Subjectivity
  • Bernard E. Harcourt | Weaponizing Life: An Introduction

RESOURCES

  • Darshana Mitra | The Leaking Sovereign and the Hysterical Subject
  • John Finnegan | Necroresistance as Destitution
  • Praxis 12/13 | READINGS
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  • The Virtual 13/13 | How to Access and Participate in Praxis 13/13 From Afar

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  • Susan Buck-Morss
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POSTS

  • Heather Ann Thompson | Theory v. Praxis and the Crisis of Carcerality
  • Amy Allen | Psychoanalysis, Critique, and Praxis
  • Bernard E. Harcourt | The Space of Praxis | An Introduction

RESOURCES

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