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On whether Foucault is a Neoliberal Philosopher – And what it means to ask?

On whether Foucault is a Neoliberal Philosopher – And what it means to ask? The germ of the central question I will attend to in this essay is owed to an interview published in Jacobin magazine under the title ‘Can We Criticize Foucault’.1 The interviewee was a French sociologist who has published an edited volume titled Foucault…

ByAsif AkhtarFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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Prefiguration of a Common Dream: An Interview with David Graeber

Qalandar Bux Memon: Can you explain why you support horizontal organisation, collective assemblies and a dialogical method for organising for social change as opposed to the vertical left party? David Gaeber: I like to make the distinction between forms of organization that could exist outside structures of coercion – that is, in the absence of…

ByDavid GraeberFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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“Practice First, Then Theory:” The Zapatista Little School Shares Lessons Learned During 19 Years of Self-Governance

The first night of my homestay during the Zapatista Little School, my guardian and her husband asked if their students had any questions. My classmate and I both had experience working with the Zapatistas, so we politely limited ourselves to the safe questions that are generally acceptable when visiting rebel territory: questions about livestock, crops,…

ByKristin BrickerFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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Frantz Fanon: The Philosophical Revolutionary

THE current year, 2012, marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Frantz Fanon, one of the indispensable figures of the 20th century and a man of exemplary commitments to revolutionary action and human liberation. A thinker who offered original and lasting insights of great complexity, he was also a physician and a psychiatrist who…

ByAIJAZ AHMADFebruary 9, 20240Comments

Aesthetics as First Philosophy: Levinas and the Non-Human

Emmanuel Levinas is usually seen as an ethical and religious philosopher. This reading is understandable to the point of seeming obvious, and certainly matches the philosopher’s own self-interpretation. But on closer scrutiny, the narrowly ethical reception of his thought seems to be one-sided. For Levinas pushes beyond the oppressive totality of beings not just through…

ByGraham HarmanFebruary 9, 20240Comments