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The Endogenous Ends of Education: For Aaron Swartz
Through the words of the English translator of Agamben’s “Requiem per gli Studenti” (“Requiem for the Students”) we come to know that Italy is the exceptional place where the theory of exception holds — “Agamben refers specifically to developments in Italy.”[1] Agamben’s requiem sketches an idyll of the university which, he notes, is coming to an…
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“To Sing, To Dance, To Creolise and make Music”: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera On Transitions from the Present
Oscar Guardiola-Riverateaches International Law and Globalization and is the Assistant Dean of the School of Law at the University of London, Birkbeck. He is the award-winning author of "What If Latin America Ruled the World" and "Being Against the World: Rebellion and Constitution". He is a member of the Naked Punch Collective and the Editorial…
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AN IRREGULAR ODE
AN IRREGULAR ODE Thirty days shy of forty,  on a rush-hour-crowded Coney-Island-bound F train,  I questioned the exact circumference of the sandy circle  in which the Children of Israel wandered for forty years. Forty years. Were desert environs so sundry as to provide a passable  facsimile of farther & farther? Of progress rather than round…
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ARSENAL
ARSENAL  Yesterday was beautiful; today is thick & stagnant: hurricanes threaten communities from Kitty Hawk to Nantucket – all low-lying areas are evacuated.  I seek alternatives (routes & pathways previously discredited) & I understand the efficacy of Harriet Tubman’s oft-brandished pearl-handled pistol: you go on or you die, she promised, every wavering runaway slave committed to…
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KASHMIR IN AN ERA OF DYING DEMOCRACY
I. Late last November, after months of being cut off from Kashmir, I managed to get through to an old friend in my hometown in South Kashmir over a rickety landline connection. There was clicking, popping, and static in the line. “These sounds you hear,” my friend said matter-of-factly, “are coming from third-party interference.” I…
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Viral Intrusion
Contingency In his last courses at the Collège de France, Foucault insisted more and more strongly on a Greek concept that, in fact, designated a way of life: parrhesía. This vocable can be translated as frank or true-speaking. Initially conceptualized as a form of subjectification typical of Hellenistic philosophy, that notion demanded masters to be…
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What Carries Us On
It is frightfully sublime in part because of its obscurity. – Immanuel Kant Implicit within the debate on Coronavirus curated by Antinomie and archived by Sergio Benvenuto[i]  is the question—for what must we carry on?  That is, do we—humanity, which has been reckoned by many thinkers as the error in nature—carry on for the sake of carrying on?  Or, should…
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The Obscure Experience
In philosophizing we may not terminate a disease of thought. It must run its natural course, and slow cure is all important.” ­– Ludwig Wittgenstein Implicitly we are asking in these discussions about the COVID-19 pandemic [1]   is there a norm for man? Earlier it was philosophy that had the task of constituting the systems under which the limits and also the…