Tag Archives: Politics & Society

Kathleen Stock — transgender and the limits of academic freedom .[embedded content]

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In science, courage is to follow the motto of enlightenment and Kant’s dictum — Sapere Aude!  To use your own understanding, having the ​courage to think for yourself and question ‘received opinion,’ authority or orthodoxy. In our daily lives, courage is a capability to confront fear, as when in front of the powerful and mighty, not to step back, but stand up for one’s rights not to be humiliated or abused. Courage is to do the right thing in spite of danger and fear. As when...

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Judith Butler — a severe case of postmodern mumbo jumbo .[embedded content] The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural...

What the CIA did not tell us about its War on Terror .[embedded content]

Finansretoriska rådet — en mental härdsmälta Ett roligt klipp cirkulerar på John Hassler, professor i nationalekonomi och ledamot i Finanspolitiska rådet. “Vi blev utskällda efter noter av finansministern”, säger han och tittar sorgset in i kameran. Tydligen blev Magdalena Andersson (S) inte så imponerad av de politiska slutsatser som Finanspolitiska rådet överlämnade 2015. Hassler är fortfarande sur. “Finansretoriska rådet” kallade hon dem. Efteråt...

Islamo-gauchisme à l’université — fantasme ou réalité ? .[embedded content]

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Adorno’s speech against fascism .[embedded content]