Arrogance 101
Somewhere along the way HBS lost its qualification as an actual educational institution, and just became a facilitator for big business, without even deigning to question the nature of capitalism anymore.
Conversations
Articles featuring interviews, online panel discussions, and other exchanges transcribed, translated, or conducted by Antidote and our friends.
For a Resurgence of Insurgent Dignity
People grabbing history by the scruff of the neck and attempting to exercise their own political agency is incredibly inspiring. How can it not be, when we live in a culture which insists that we do not have the right to control our own lives?
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Chase Out the Old Goats, Reprogram the Doomsday Machine
We’re still teaching economics today without mentioning the living world that we’re destroying, the unpaid care of parents, or the commons, leaving students well short of the worldview they need to take on the 21st century. That’s why they’re rebelling.
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“Antifa is indispensable.”
We knew even before the NSU that neo-Nazis don’t shy away from killing people. Violence is part of their ideology. Writing “Jena is colorful” on the streets with chalk is nice, but not enough. Nazi activity has to be confronted, and limits imposed.
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Hope Versus Bombs
Everyone is asking themselves when it will finally be enough, when the people here will have suffered enough. Erdoğan’s answer: not for a long time yet.
Tyranny: Consent and Resistance
We have to be braced, both in the sense that history gives us a framework for seeing what’s possible, but also in realizing that some of what’s possible is terrifying.
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We Will Bring About Our Own Liberation
“Everything we need is already inside of us as black people. It’s absolutely necessary that we recognize our very rich history of rebellion in this country, one that we can learn from and build off of, and that we can use right now in this moment.
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“I tell you: fight with me against the camp system”
Ajour Magazin spoke to one of thirteen illegalized refugees who decided that to get out and be part of society is more important than complying with the state; they moved into a derelict house in central Zurich.
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On Hope and Wild Possibilities
2004: “The old shapes, the old forms no longer contain the possibilities. I think something wildly different is going to happen, and that leaves room for wonderful as well as terrible things.”
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Orientalism: Hate, Lies, and Hegemony
If you go to a bookstore today, right now, you can find a copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom in the fiction section. That’s exactly where it belongs.
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