Tag Archives: Politics & Society

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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]

.[embedded content] Impotence must eventually bring about what good will ought to have done but did not do: that each state becomes so organized internally that it is not the head of state, whom war really costs nothing (since he wages it at another’s cost, namely that of the people), who has the decisive voice as to whether there is to be war or not, but instead the people, which pays for it. Immanuel Kant

Understanding intersectionality and identity politics .[embedded content]

Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters. Yet the wholly enlightened earth is radiant with triumphant calamity. … Whereas the unconscious colossus of real existence, subjectless capitalism, inflicts its destruction blindly, the deludedly rebellious subject is willing to see that destruction as its fulfillment, and, together with the biting cold it emits toward...