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  • After Pantin

    After Pantin

    In response to remarks they gave at an event in Paris earlier this month, Judith Butler has received hate mail while Zionist publications have attacked them. In this article, Butler defends and clarifies their position.
  • Becoming Monsters: What happens when the witness becomes the defendant?

    Becoming Monsters: What happens when the witness becomes the defendant?

    To whom should Palestinians fighting for liberation speak? For our Palestine Uncensored series, Islam Al-Khatib writes that the focus on appealing to an international audience has moderated and censored how Palestinians can imagine their fight for freedom. Instead, she argues that Palestinians must break out of the Western discursive frameworks that police their thinking about how liberation can be achieved.
  • The renewable energy paradox

    The renewable energy paradox

    Brett Christophers examines the new paradox at the heart of renewable energy development now that the economic obstacle to decarbonisation has been swept away.

  • Abortion Again?

    Abortion Again?

    Rosalind Petchesky reflects on the fight for reproductive rights forty years after the original publication of her book, Abortion and Women's Choice: The State, Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom.
  • Oskar Negt (1934-2024)

    Oskar Negt (1934-2024)

    A social philosopher of enormous influence in the Federal Republic of Germany, Oskar Negt is best known in the Anglophone world for his collaborative theory penned together with author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge. A giant in his own right, the riches of Negt’s considerable body of theory have yet to find their audience beyond German-speaking Europe.

  • The Politics of Women’s Blues

    The Politics of Women’s Blues

    Hazel V. Carby considers the sexual politics of women's blues and focuses on black women as cultural producers and performers in the 1920s.