Immanuel Wallerstein resonates in Iran because he not only combines all the great intellectual traditions of European and American social science, but he uses them to challenge the status quo.
Reading ‘World Systems Analysis’ in Tehran Read More »
When you handcuff ten-year-olds because they’ve had a temper tantrum in the classroom, that suggests something about the way any respect for the social, any respect for relationships, has begun to collapse.
An Assault on the Mind Read More »
The Atlantic economy was qualitatively different in terms of the work that was demanded, the absolute treatment of people as chattel, the brutality, the equation of forced labor with skin color, the distances traveled, and the massive number of people who were ripped out of their homes.
“The World We Live in Is Created by Slavery” Read More »
The place and function of the police is undecidable and must remain undecidable, because if it were really absorbed in the judicial power, police could no longer exist.
For a Theory of Destituent Power Read More »
“Dérives” (translates into Drifts) has set itself the goal to set some records straight concerning police violence and media excesses that have marked the “Maple Spring”. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iZdAdczrGk] From 1990 to 2010 the Student Movements were subject to over 1000 arrests. In the first six month of 2012 alone, more than 3000 students were arrested.
Dérives – the Student Revolt in Canada Read More »
Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it.
