Video: Jacques Rancière, Giuseppina Mecchia, David Bell, Marina van Zuylen, and Suzanne Guerlac — Aesthetics and the Question of Disciplinarity
Rancière elaborates on some of the ideas developed within his latest book, Les Bords de la fiction.
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Marxism and Public Law
Marxists should attend to the specific ways in which public law both conditions and is conditioned by social power and political activity.
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Disaster Communism
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, New York grassroots groups charted an inspiring alternative to disaster capitalism.
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Women in the New Left
Reflections by Sheila Benson, Dorothy Wedderburn, and Lynne Segal on the experiences of women within Britain's New Left.
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Who are the new poor? And what can we do about it?
In these videos Stephen Armstrong looks at the erosion of the welfare state since the original Beveridge report in 1942, and builds up a shocking picture of what poverty looks like today.
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Sinking Feelings: Of Glaciers, Zombies, and Catastrophic Affect
Official assessments radically underestimate the magnitude of warming experienced by city dwellers today. To live in a large city today is to be on the edge of the most rapidly changing environmental conditions ever experienced by humans.
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Thank God, It’s Over: Eight years of Wolfgang Schäuble
Schäuble drove euro nations to the brink of collapse and allowed the German state to record an enormous current account surplus at exactly the wrong time.
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Reagan at the Movies
A previously unpublished 1986 essay by filmmaker Thom Andersen, excerpted from a new collection of his writings.
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Five Book Plan: Cities and Climate Change — Five Years After Hurricane Sandy
On the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Ashley Dawson provides a select list of books and resources for assessing the history and future of cities facing climate change.
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The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
On the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Extreme Cities looks at how climate change is affecting global cities and how to support urban movements already fighting to remake our cities in a more just and equitable way.
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The Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt
In February 1918, the repudiation of the debt by the Soviet government shocked international finance and sparked off unanimous condemnation by the governments of the great powers.
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Mourning and Mannahatta
In the Cut cannily moves its counter across a board whose rules have been laid down by Freudian psychoanalysis, Propp’s analysis of folk tales, and film theory’s obsession with the B-movie and noir.
