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Unesp, Franca, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 11/8/2018. “Critical theory as foundation for the analysis of populism and authoritarianism/Teoria crítica como fundamento para análise do populismo e do autoritarismo” (Jeremiah Morelock) e “Neoliberalismo progressista e o momento populista” (Felipe Ziotti Narita)
This interview with Christian Fuchs from 6/15/2018 concerns his Digital Demogogue: Authoritatian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter, published by Pluto Press in 2018. The interview/article is reposted from Indybay. Trump is not an individual phenomenon but one of many structural manifestations of the sudden change of neoliberalism into authoritarian capitalism. The media’s profitmongering … Read more
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The following regards my recent article from Cadernos CIMEAC – v. 7. n. 2, 2017. Abstract A synergistic movement is taking place in American society combining authoritarian populism, the neoliberal transformation of the university, and anti-intellectualism. In the first part of this paper, I pin my notion of intellectualism (and hence anti-intellectualism) to a specific frame … Read more
*reposted from www.independent.gr γράφει η Δρ Βασιλική Παπαγεωργίου Εθνολόγος- Κοινωνική Ανθρωπολόγος Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Medgar Wiley Evers Τα επεισόδια στο Σάρλοτσβιλ της Βιρτζίνια, (Charlottesville, Virgnia), αρθρώνονται στην ακολουθία ενός κορμού γεγονότων ιστορικά προσδιορισμένων και στενά συνδεδεμένων με το ζήτημα του ρατσισμού και των φυλετικών σχέσεων στις ΗΠΑ. Οι συγκρούσεις που έλαβαν χώρα κατά το φετινό Αύγουστο, … Read more
Colorized print of the Flammarion engraving (artist unknown.) The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.1 – Antonio Gramsci For myth changes while custom remains constant; men continue to do what their fathers did before them, though … Read more
In a world that really has been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.1 — Guy Debord The questions that I am asked more than any others are, “What can we do? What can I do?” In the face of impending doom — which more and more people are beginning to dimly … Read more
*This essay originally appeared in the December 2016 issue of TC Public Space, a student newspaper at Teachers College, Columbia University. The above image is a colorized print of Philip Dawe’s 1774 cartoon, “The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering.” We must confront a perhaps unsettling fact: Donald Trump may be our opponent, … Read more
*The following article by Kevin Surin is reposted from counterpunch, 2/7/17, photo by Karl-Ludwig Poggemann. * * * * * * * There has been much said in the media about Donald Trump’s “populism”, alleged by some to be the primary tool enabling … Read more
The following post by Toni Bologna is reblogged from tonibologna.com. * * * * * * * Now that it’s no longer “International Women’s Day,” I notice that no one is thanking me for having a vagina. Where are all my Facebook shout outs for housing a womb to house a child? What kind of … Read more