Primary Readings Paul B. Preciado, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (New York: Feminist Press, 2013) (excerpt) Jack Halberstam, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (UC Press, 2018) (excerpt) Jack Halberstam’s “Introduction” to Stefano Harney and Fred… Continue Reading
By Seyla Benhabib Hannah Arendt’s three-part essay on “Civil Disobedience” (1970) is one of her late pieces (Arendt died in 1975), which appeared in full in a collection appropriately called Crises of the Republic. [1] Arendt, the refugee from the… Continue Reading
By Robert Gooding-Williams When I initially began thinking about my contribution to this week’s Uprising 8/13 event, I happened to be at home, recovering from back surgery and watching TV. One of the things I watched, that I binged watched, was… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “Every [person] of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits [their] convictions, but we must all protest.” — Martin Luther King, Jr., at Riverside Church in New York With these words, Martin Luther… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt In discussions of political action, we tend to speak of Thoreau, Gandhi, and King in the same breath—as “founders” and “practitioners” of modern civil disobedience. We tend to think of the three as each having exercised… Continue Reading
At Uprising 10/13, we will explore the notions of anti-imperialism and of national independence that marked many of the revolutionary uprisings in Latin and South America during the mid-20th century. We do so as a vehicle to also interrogate more… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Foucault was not fond of the concept of Revolution, Daniel Defert reminded us in his opening presentation at the Uprising 6/13 seminar on Revolt: Foucault on Iran. Nor did Foucault identify a Revolution in the streets… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Michel Foucault identified in the Iranian uprising of 1978 a modality of religious political revolt and a form of political spirituality that privileged, in the secular realm, expressly religious aspirations. What Foucault discovered in Iran was,… Continue Reading