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The Contemporary Condition: March 2014
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Choice Feminism’s Honey Trap. Michaele L. Ferguson. The other day, a colleague drew my attention to a blog post at xojane.com. By accepting Knox’s frame, we are rendered incapable of offering any critique of pornography. The porn industry can’t be all bad, if it is possible for a high-achieving, ambitious, and sexually liberated woman like Belle Knox to freely choose to participate in it. We’ve come a long way since Catharine MacKinnon! If we could do this, we could start to as...
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The Contemporary Condition: April 2014
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Giving Voice to Climate Silence. Is a columnist for The Progressive Populist and a faculty adjunct at Cochise College. His most recent book is. Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age. A (slight) majority of Americans accept the reality of human-induced climate change. Yet even many of those who do attach a low priority to the issue. Even worse, some join in opposing any constructive steps. As Subhankar Banerjee. Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point. That one...
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The Contemporary Condition: May 2015
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. 24 Hours in America’s Gulag. 8221; “They” are the police in America’s gulag. And all parents should be afraid. White people, the bureaucrats assigned to looking up our cases. The man behind the window would inform us that there was no information, and that what we could do was simply wait, and get back in line. The emotions closest to the surface for me were helplessness and rage. How could my son possibly be sent to Rikers? Posted by Tim Hanafin. Links to this post. Larry Wilmor...
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Posthumanities: New issue of ICAS journal
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Dec 22, 2012. New issue of ICAS journal. Posted by Rodolfo Piskorski. The latest issue of the Journal of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies is out. I'm proud to say that I have a small participation on it - a review of Tom Tyler's book CIFERAE: A Bestiary in Five Fingers. Which is just great, by the way. Have given any thought to the question of animal embodiment via Bodies That Matter. I don't know if they have, that's why I ask, but it should be interesting. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Contemporary Condition: August 2014
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014. Violette and Simone: Politics in the Encounter. The biopic is most compelling when a strong narrative message is not imposed on a life. Life unfolds in response to the unpredictable, idiosyncratic occurrence tossed one’s way, and we, as individuals or collective, mobilize freedom or opportunity in the random events of life and politics. Violette. The bold story of a ménage à trois. Says she comes off as “a cross between a dominatrix and a mother superior.” Beauvo...Into Beauvoir...
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The Contemporary Condition: September 2014
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Sunday, September 28, 2014. Hands Up Dont Shoot: Democracy's Casualties, Democracy's Heroes. Neal A. Maxwell Chair in Political Theory, Public Policy, and Public Service, University of Utah. American police, of course, do not appreciate politics exercised on the streets, perhaps especially when it’s conducted by minorities—whether racial, economic, or otherwise. They were first deployed as part of an ongoing war against the Black Panther Party. Given this problematic history, it comes as no surprise that...
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The Contemporary Condition: November 2014
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Saturday, November 29, 2014. Six Years a Slave. Neal A. Maxwell Chair in Political Theory, Public Policy, and Public Service, University of Utah. From the beginning Republicans have deemed it necessary to put Obama in his place. For them it remains an urgent task. Not surprisingly, Karl Rove. Rendering the insurance industry and government partners in billion dollar revenue streams. Still, the GOP’s rallying cry to would-be voters, apparently straightforward, was coded: “If you’re n...Barack Obama. R...
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The Contemporary Condition: January 2015
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Friday, January 23, 2015. Is author of American Dionysia: Violence, Tragedy, and Democratic Politics,. Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. His execution represents a criminal failure of policing—not just in New York City but America (which holds true for Michael Brown and so many others). Why were the police not there en masse to take responsibility for their failure and to mourn his loss, because he, too, was one of their own? Posted by Jairus Victor Grove. Links to this post. Slavery has long ...
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The Contemporary Condition: December 2014
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014. William E. Connolly. Author, The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, Democratic Activism. Oil and coal companies, the right edge of evangelicalism, high end investors, and Fox News help to secure it, all pushing projects that many know are unsustainable. Those are powerful sources. But the dilemma runs deeper. A husband and father of two school children asked. He elicited laughter. The conversation moved on. To have entertained the...So we plo...
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