Robert Gooding-Williams is the M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies at Columbia University. He holds appointments in both the Philosophy Department and the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS), where he is a member of… Continue Reading
Seyla Benhabib, born in Istanbul, Turkey, is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and was Director of its Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics from 2002 to 2008. She was the President of the… Continue Reading
Jean Louise Cohen is Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Political Thought and Contemporary Civilization at Columbia University. Professor Cohen’s fields of expertise include critical theory, sovereignty, human rights, religion and democratic constitutionalism, gender and the law. Professor Cohen… Continue Reading
Frédéric Gros is professor of political thought at Sciences-po Paris. He is the editor of several of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France – Subjectivité et vérité, L’Herméneutique du sujet, Le Gouvernement de soi et des autres, Le Courage de la vérité and is the chief… Continue Reading
A professor of sociology, Daniel Defert has been assistant (1969–1970), maître-assistant (1971–1985), then maître de conférence (from 1985) at the Centre Universitaire of Vincennes, which became in 1972 Université Paris VIII Vincennes. He has been a member of the scientific committee… Continue Reading
John Rajchman received his PhD from the Philosophy Department at Columbia, where he now teaches in the Art History department. He specializes in theory and criticism in art and philosophy in the 20th and 21st centuries. He has recently edited French Philosophy Since… Continue Reading
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi is professor of history and sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Islam and Dissent in Postrevolutionary Iran (2008); Remembering Akbar: Inside the Iranian Revolution (2016); Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment (2016).
Kendall Thomas is the Nash Professor of Law and co-founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University in the City of New York. Professor Thomas joined the faculty in 1984. His teaching and research interests… Continue Reading
On Standing Rock 1. https://therednation.org/2016/09/18/fighting-for-our-lives-nodapl-in-context/ 2. https://items.ssrc.org/what-standing-rock-teaches-us-about-environmental-justice/ 3. https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/ Primary Readings Glen Coulthard’s Red Skins White Masks Audra Simpson’s Mohawk Interruptus Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, As We Have Always Done Julian Brave NoiseCat, “A tale of two housing crises, rural and urban: How one Indigenous family… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Gabriella Coleman, “From Internet Farming to Weapons of the Geek,” Current Anthropology, Volume 58, Supplement 15, February 2017 The novel “Q” by Luther Blissett (1999) The political satire science fiction series “Brain Dead” (2016) Secondary Readings Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer,… Continue Reading