Emmanuelle Saada joined the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University in 2006. She received her academic training in France, first at the École Normale Supérieure in sociology and history and later at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes… Continue Reading
Massimiliano Tomba (Ph.D. in Political Philosophy at the University of Pisa) has taught Political Philosophy at the University of Padova (Italy). In 2012 he was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University; in 2014-15 Distinguished Visiting Fellow (Advanced Research Collaborative) at The Graduate… Continue Reading
The problem How is resistance to capital possible if any movement of interruption or contestation is at present immanent to the “logic” of capital? Where can resistance be located if all life worlds have been appropriated and subsumed by capital?… Continue Reading
To talk about independence, insurrection, autonomy, I’ll use three photographs as my point of departure—two of Fortino Sámano, about to be executed on March 2nd, 1917, and one of Pablo López, also about to die on June 5th, 1916. The… Continue Reading
In a wave that Geraldine Lievesley and Steve Ludlam described as an experiment in radical political democracy and the US media dubbed “the Pink Tide,” Latin Americans voted social democratic governments into power beginning in the late 1990s. [i] Over… Continue Reading
Introduction The one slogan stuck on the wall in my early classrooms that I remember best was “to learn, to learn, to learn” (tanulni, tanulni, tanulni), signed Lenin. Vladmir Ilyich, never my hero, was admittedly a genuine learner. From… Continue Reading
Jaskiran Dhillon is a first generation academic and advocate who grew up on Treaty Six Cree Territory in Saskatchewan, Canada. Her work spans the fields of settler colonialism, anthropology of the state, anti-racist feminism, and youth studies. Forthcoming with University of… Continue Reading
Zethu Matebeni is the convenor of the Queer in Africa series and lectures in the Sociology Department. In 2011 Zethu received a PhD at WISER, Wits University and has been furthering research interests and publishing on queer issues, sexuality, gender, race, HIV… Continue Reading
By Brandon Terry On February 23, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., took to the stage at a sold-out Carnegie Hall. He had not come to rally the flagging spirits of bloodied civil rights demonstrators, shake loose the pennies of liberal… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” June 2, 1963, available here: https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf. Frédéric Gros, Désobéir (Paris: Albin Michel-Flammarion, 2017) Bernard E. Harcourt, “Political Disobedience”, in W.J.T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig, Three Inquiries in Disobedience (Chicago: University… Continue Reading