Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
More Annotations
A complete backup of www.breakingnews.fr/sport/tennis/fucsovics-sur-roger-federer-jai-maintenant-plus-dexperience-et-je-veux-vra
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
A complete backup of www.soccerladuma.co.za/news/articles/local/categories/kaizer-chiefs/kaizer-chiefs-fans-will-have-to-wait-fo
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
A complete backup of crickettimes.com/2020/01/nz-vs-ind-shardul-thakur-and-colin-munro-barrel-into-each-other-during-the-second-
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
Favourite Annotations
A complete backup of filehurricane.com
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
A complete backup of metropoleruhr.de
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
A complete backup of triumphmotorcycles.com
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
A complete backup of vertaalbureaus.biz
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
A complete backup of northamptonshire.gov.uk
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
A complete backup of svrtechnologies.com
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
Text
enslaved.
WHY WEIMAR IS AN IMPERFECT MIRROR Comments (1) One thought on “ Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror ”. In Fritz Stern’s book — Five Germanys I Have Known — he claimed the end of the Weimar Republic was neither accidental nor inevitable. One point out of many: “Ebert’s men relied on elements of EMBRACING DEMOCRACY: THE STORMING OF THE US CAPITOL AND Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. FOR AND AGAINST THE ANTHROPOCENE A bigger concern of Against the Anthropocene is to contest the very concept itself. According to Demos, a major problem with the Anthropocene concept is the way in which it universalizes the roots of the eco-crisis by situating it among the anthropos, i.e., humanity in general, when it is in fact the result of a specific set of actionstaken by
HANNAH LEFFINGWELL, AUTHOR AT PUBLIC SEMINAR Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. THE ANXIETY INDUSTRY This essay was originally published on May 17 2019. Anxiety — that chronic, widespread uncertainty proliferating out of the insecurities that exemplify modern life — has become the lodestone of 21 st century consumer capitalism.. From fidget spinners, gravity blankets, CBD oils, air fresheners and skincare products to white noise machines, salt lamps, calming diffusers and the countlessVOID BITCHES
Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHY WE SHOULDN’T CANCEL FOUCAULT AGB: Foucault was clearly not the only one who tolerated sexual relations with minors. The 1977 letter in favor of modifying the consent law and decriminalizing consensual sexual relations with persons under 15 years of age was signed by numerous intellectuals, including Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze, amongothers.
THE POLITICS OF FEMALE SEXUALITY IN 'LIPSTICK UNDER MY The title Lipstick Under My Burkha might seem to suggest a bias towards lipstick over the burkha. One can easily read the film as showing women wanting desperately to come out of the burkha and embrace the world that the lipstick inhabits. However, in the film, women share a vexed relationship with both the lipstick and the burkha. While Rehana HOME - PUBLIC SEMINARABOUTOUR TEAMSEMINARSESSAYSWEEKLY ISSUESDONATE Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHAT DID ARISTOTLE THINK ABOUT SLAVERY? Aristotle first turns to those who believe that slavery is conventional. This was a view held by other teachers in Athens at the time. He agrees with those who think that slavery cannot be justified by war or conquest. Wars, he remarks, are not always just, so we cannot assume that those taken captive in a war have been justlyenslaved.
WHY WEIMAR IS AN IMPERFECT MIRROR Comments (1) One thought on “ Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror ”. In Fritz Stern’s book — Five Germanys I Have Known — he claimed the end of the Weimar Republic was neither accidental nor inevitable. One point out of many: “Ebert’s men relied on elements of EMBRACING DEMOCRACY: THE STORMING OF THE US CAPITOL AND Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. FOR AND AGAINST THE ANTHROPOCENE A bigger concern of Against the Anthropocene is to contest the very concept itself. According to Demos, a major problem with the Anthropocene concept is the way in which it universalizes the roots of the eco-crisis by situating it among the anthropos, i.e., humanity in general, when it is in fact the result of a specific set of actionstaken by
HANNAH LEFFINGWELL, AUTHOR AT PUBLIC SEMINAR Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. THE ANXIETY INDUSTRY This essay was originally published on May 17 2019. Anxiety — that chronic, widespread uncertainty proliferating out of the insecurities that exemplify modern life — has become the lodestone of 21 st century consumer capitalism.. From fidget spinners, gravity blankets, CBD oils, air fresheners and skincare products to white noise machines, salt lamps, calming diffusers and the countlessVOID BITCHES
Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHY WE SHOULDN’T CANCEL FOUCAULT AGB: Foucault was clearly not the only one who tolerated sexual relations with minors. The 1977 letter in favor of modifying the consent law and decriminalizing consensual sexual relations with persons under 15 years of age was signed by numerous intellectuals, including Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze, amongothers.
THE POLITICS OF FEMALE SEXUALITY IN 'LIPSTICK UNDER MY The title Lipstick Under My Burkha might seem to suggest a bias towards lipstick over the burkha. One can easily read the film as showing women wanting desperately to come out of the burkha and embrace the world that the lipstick inhabits. However, in the film, women share a vexed relationship with both the lipstick and the burkha. While Rehana THE COVID LAB-LEAK DEBATE IS DESTRUCTIVE 1 day ago · Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. ISSUES FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 10, 2021 1 day ago · Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHAT COMPUTERS CAN EXPLAIN 1 day ago · Photo credit: ioat / Shutterstock.com _____ The mystery of learning is as old as philosophy: how does the nearly insensate newborn become, withinBACK TO BELIEF
1 day ago · 1 David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1896 (1739), Book I, Part 3, Section 7, 96. 2 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, trans. Josefine THE STORY OF THE SPUTNIK V VACCINE 1 day ago · 1 Introduction to Tony Wood, Russia Without Putin: Money, Power, and the Myths of the New Cold War (London; New York: Verso Books, 2018). 2 Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies (London; New York: Routledge, 2011), chapters 10, 23. 3 For a classic scholarly treatment, see David Joravsky, The Lysenko Affair (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1970). WHY ISN'T JOE MANCHIN FOR THE PEOPLE? 1 day ago · Photo credit: DonkeyHotey / WikiMedia Commons _____ Complaining that “the fundamental right to vote has itself become overtly politicized,” Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) published an op-ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail yesterday saying that he would vote against S1, the For the People Act, arguing that protecting the right to vote should “never be done in a partisan manner.” WHY MAYA WILEY COULD BE NEW YORK CITY'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR 1 day ago · Photo credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com _____ It’s a move that may provide an important last-minute jolt of energy for undecided progressives: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, NY-14) has endorsed activist and civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley for Mayor of New York City. And it isn’t just an Instagram moment: it is a recognition of what Wiley has already achieved. FOR ONLY $184 MILLION YOU CAN HAVE A BESPOKE LABOR 1 day ago · Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. THE ANXIETY INDUSTRY This essay was originally published on May 17 2019. Anxiety — that chronic, widespread uncertainty proliferating out of the insecurities that exemplify modern life — has become the lodestone of 21 st century consumer capitalism.. From fidget spinners, gravity blankets, CBD oils, air fresheners and skincare products to white noise machines, salt lamps, calming diffusers and the countless THE BUSINESS PACS ARE BACK IN BUSINESS 1 day ago · Photo credit: Anne Mathiasz / Shutterstock.com _____ Roll Call reported political action committees (PACs) have restarted making contributions to members of the United States Congress. This includes the 147 Republicans who voted against certifying Electoral College votes after the militant storming of the United States Capitol. Cash to both parties mostly stopped in the weeks after the HOME - PUBLIC SEMINARABOUTOUR TEAMSEMINARSESSAYSWEEKLY ISSUESDONATE Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. EMBRACING DEMOCRACY: THE STORMING OF THE US CAPITOL AND Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHAT DID ARISTOTLE THINK ABOUT SLAVERY? Aristotle first turns to those who believe that slavery is conventional. This was a view held by other teachers in Athens at the time. He agrees with those who think that slavery cannot be justified by war or conquest. Wars, he remarks, are not always just, so we cannot assume that those taken captive in a war have been justlyenslaved.
WE STILL NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE INSURRECTION Week of May 20. More than 140 military leaders, former national security officials, and elected officials from both parties have asked Congress to establish a commission to investigate what led to the January 6 insurrection, when rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol. The commission would also study how to prevent a similar coup attempt inthe future.
WHY WEIMAR IS AN IMPERFECT MIRROR Comments (1) One thought on “ Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror ”. In Fritz Stern’s book — Five Germanys I Have Known — he claimed the end of the Weimar Republic was neither accidental nor inevitable. One point out of many: “Ebert’s men relied on elements of OPPRESSION, RESISTANCE AND HIGH-TECH Technology empowered the resistance. The new information technology made it easier to spread information, to network, to organize and mobilize the social movement. But technology has also been used to facilitate oppression. For the past few years, an unprecedented “high-tech totalitarianism” is looming in China. FOR AND AGAINST THE ANTHROPOCENE A bigger concern of Against the Anthropocene is to contest the very concept itself. According to Demos, a major problem with the Anthropocene concept is the way in which it universalizes the roots of the eco-crisis by situating it among the anthropos, i.e., humanity in general, when it is in fact the result of a specific set of actionstaken by
WHY WE SHOULDN’T CANCEL FOUCAULT AGB: Foucault was clearly not the only one who tolerated sexual relations with minors. The 1977 letter in favor of modifying the consent law and decriminalizing consensual sexual relations with persons under 15 years of age was signed by numerous intellectuals, including Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze, amongothers.
JFK'S QUEER WHITE HOUSE Week of May 20. President John F. Kennedy has become infamous for his vivid, and some might say almost compulsive, heterosexual affairs. But straight men can have a gay side, and JFK’s life was filled with prominent gay men, friendships which open the door to other histories. At least one of these intimates, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings HOW SHAME PLAYS A PRODUCTIVE ROLE IN RACIAL JUSTICE This is interesting because it flags a shift in how shame is understood. While shame is usually what we feel when we break with cultural norms, in regard to racial justice in these progressive circles, shame is what we feel when we don’t break with norms (“privileges”) enough. In this way, shame is a feeling that caninvite us to break
HOME - PUBLIC SEMINARABOUTOUR TEAMSEMINARSESSAYSWEEKLY ISSUESDONATE Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. EMBRACING DEMOCRACY: THE STORMING OF THE US CAPITOL AND Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHAT DID ARISTOTLE THINK ABOUT SLAVERY? Aristotle first turns to those who believe that slavery is conventional. This was a view held by other teachers in Athens at the time. He agrees with those who think that slavery cannot be justified by war or conquest. Wars, he remarks, are not always just, so we cannot assume that those taken captive in a war have been justlyenslaved.
WE STILL NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE INSURRECTION Week of May 20. More than 140 military leaders, former national security officials, and elected officials from both parties have asked Congress to establish a commission to investigate what led to the January 6 insurrection, when rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol. The commission would also study how to prevent a similar coup attempt inthe future.
WHY WEIMAR IS AN IMPERFECT MIRROR Comments (1) One thought on “ Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror ”. In Fritz Stern’s book — Five Germanys I Have Known — he claimed the end of the Weimar Republic was neither accidental nor inevitable. One point out of many: “Ebert’s men relied on elements of OPPRESSION, RESISTANCE AND HIGH-TECH Technology empowered the resistance. The new information technology made it easier to spread information, to network, to organize and mobilize the social movement. But technology has also been used to facilitate oppression. For the past few years, an unprecedented “high-tech totalitarianism” is looming in China. FOR AND AGAINST THE ANTHROPOCENE A bigger concern of Against the Anthropocene is to contest the very concept itself. According to Demos, a major problem with the Anthropocene concept is the way in which it universalizes the roots of the eco-crisis by situating it among the anthropos, i.e., humanity in general, when it is in fact the result of a specific set of actionstaken by
WHY WE SHOULDN’T CANCEL FOUCAULT AGB: Foucault was clearly not the only one who tolerated sexual relations with minors. The 1977 letter in favor of modifying the consent law and decriminalizing consensual sexual relations with persons under 15 years of age was signed by numerous intellectuals, including Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze, amongothers.
JFK'S QUEER WHITE HOUSE Week of May 20. President John F. Kennedy has become infamous for his vivid, and some might say almost compulsive, heterosexual affairs. But straight men can have a gay side, and JFK’s life was filled with prominent gay men, friendships which open the door to other histories. At least one of these intimates, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings HOW SHAME PLAYS A PRODUCTIVE ROLE IN RACIAL JUSTICE This is interesting because it flags a shift in how shame is understood. While shame is usually what we feel when we break with cultural norms, in regard to racial justice in these progressive circles, shame is what we feel when we don’t break with norms (“privileges”) enough. In this way, shame is a feeling that caninvite us to break
THE COVID LAB-LEAK DEBATE IS DESTRUCTIVE 1 day ago · Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers.TAKING CHILDREN
Week of May 27. Taking children has been a strategy for terrorizing people for centuries. There is a reason why “forcibly transferring children of the group to another group” is part of international law’s definition of genocide. It participates in the same sadistic political grammar as the torture and murder that separated FrenchJewish
ISSUES FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 10, 2021 1 day ago · Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHAT COMPUTERS CAN EXPLAIN 1 day ago · Photo credit: ioat / Shutterstock.com _____ The mystery of learning is as old as philosophy: how does the nearly insensate newborn become, withinBACK TO BELIEF
1 day ago · 1 David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1896 (1739), Book I, Part 3, Section 7, 96. 2 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, trans. Josefine THE STORY OF THE SPUTNIK V VACCINE 1 day ago · 1 Introduction to Tony Wood, Russia Without Putin: Money, Power, and the Myths of the New Cold War (London; New York: Verso Books, 2018). 2 Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies (London; New York: Routledge, 2011), chapters 10, 23. 3 For a classic scholarly treatment, see David Joravsky, The Lysenko Affair (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1970). WHY ISN'T JOE MANCHIN FOR THE PEOPLE? 1 day ago · Photo credit: DonkeyHotey / WikiMedia Commons _____ Complaining that “the fundamental right to vote has itself become overtly politicized,” Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) published an op-ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail yesterday saying that he would vote against S1, the For the People Act, arguing that protecting the right to vote should “never be done in a partisan manner.” WHY MAYA WILEY COULD BE NEW YORK CITY'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR 1 day ago · Photo credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com _____ It’s a move that may provide an important last-minute jolt of energy for undecided progressives: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, NY-14) has endorsed activist and civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley for Mayor of New York City. And it isn’t just an Instagram moment: it is a recognition of what Wiley has already achieved. FOR ONLY $184 MILLION YOU CAN HAVE A BESPOKE LABOR 1 day ago · Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. THE BUSINESS PACS ARE BACK IN BUSINESS 1 day ago · Photo credit: Anne Mathiasz / Shutterstock.com _____ Roll Call reported political action committees (PACs) have restarted making contributions to members of the United States Congress. This includes the 147 Republicans who voted against certifying Electoral College votes after the militant storming of the United States Capitol. Cash to both parties mostly stopped in the weeks after the HOME - PUBLIC SEMINARABOUTOUR TEAMSEMINARSESSAYSWEEKLY ISSUESDONATE Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. EMBRACING DEMOCRACY: THE STORMING OF THE US CAPITOL AND Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHAT DID ARISTOTLE THINK ABOUT SLAVERY? Aristotle first turns to those who believe that slavery is conventional. This was a view held by other teachers in Athens at the time. He agrees with those who think that slavery cannot be justified by war or conquest. Wars, he remarks, are not always just, so we cannot assume that those taken captive in a war have been justlyenslaved.
WE STILL NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE INSURRECTION Week of May 20. More than 140 military leaders, former national security officials, and elected officials from both parties have asked Congress to establish a commission to investigate what led to the January 6 insurrection, when rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol. The commission would also study how to prevent a similar coup attempt inthe future.
WHY WEIMAR IS AN IMPERFECT MIRROR Comments (1) One thought on “ Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror ”. In Fritz Stern’s book — Five Germanys I Have Known — he claimed the end of the Weimar Republic was neither accidental nor inevitable. One point out of many: “Ebert’s men relied on elements of FOR AND AGAINST THE ANTHROPOCENE A bigger concern of Against the Anthropocene is to contest the very concept itself. According to Demos, a major problem with the Anthropocene concept is the way in which it universalizes the roots of the eco-crisis by situating it among the anthropos, i.e., humanity in general, when it is in fact the result of a specific set of actionstaken by
WHY WE SHOULDN’T CANCEL FOUCAULT AGB: Foucault was clearly not the only one who tolerated sexual relations with minors. The 1977 letter in favor of modifying the consent law and decriminalizing consensual sexual relations with persons under 15 years of age was signed by numerous intellectuals, including Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze, amongothers.
GENDER AS COLONIAL OBJECT There are at least two ways of correcting this relative neglect. One would be to pay closer attention to the way gender relations have punctuated the history of the production, possession, and display of colonial objects. Another way would be to consider how the category of gender itself might intersect with the history of colonialism. Inother
HOW SHAME PLAYS A PRODUCTIVE ROLE IN RACIAL JUSTICE This is interesting because it flags a shift in how shame is understood. While shame is usually what we feel when we break with cultural norms, in regard to racial justice in these progressive circles, shame is what we feel when we don’t break with norms (“privileges”) enough. In this way, shame is a feeling that caninvite us to break
THE POLITICS OF FEMALE SEXUALITY IN 'LIPSTICK UNDER MY The title Lipstick Under My Burkha might seem to suggest a bias towards lipstick over the burkha. One can easily read the film as showing women wanting desperately to come out of the burkha and embrace the world that the lipstick inhabits. However, in the film, women share a vexed relationship with both the lipstick and the burkha. While Rehana HOME - PUBLIC SEMINARABOUTOUR TEAMSEMINARSESSAYSWEEKLY ISSUESDONATE Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. EMBRACING DEMOCRACY: THE STORMING OF THE US CAPITOL AND Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHAT DID ARISTOTLE THINK ABOUT SLAVERY? Aristotle first turns to those who believe that slavery is conventional. This was a view held by other teachers in Athens at the time. He agrees with those who think that slavery cannot be justified by war or conquest. Wars, he remarks, are not always just, so we cannot assume that those taken captive in a war have been justlyenslaved.
WE STILL NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE INSURRECTION Week of May 20. More than 140 military leaders, former national security officials, and elected officials from both parties have asked Congress to establish a commission to investigate what led to the January 6 insurrection, when rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol. The commission would also study how to prevent a similar coup attempt inthe future.
WHY WEIMAR IS AN IMPERFECT MIRROR Comments (1) One thought on “ Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror ”. In Fritz Stern’s book — Five Germanys I Have Known — he claimed the end of the Weimar Republic was neither accidental nor inevitable. One point out of many: “Ebert’s men relied on elements of FOR AND AGAINST THE ANTHROPOCENE A bigger concern of Against the Anthropocene is to contest the very concept itself. According to Demos, a major problem with the Anthropocene concept is the way in which it universalizes the roots of the eco-crisis by situating it among the anthropos, i.e., humanity in general, when it is in fact the result of a specific set of actionstaken by
WHY WE SHOULDN’T CANCEL FOUCAULT AGB: Foucault was clearly not the only one who tolerated sexual relations with minors. The 1977 letter in favor of modifying the consent law and decriminalizing consensual sexual relations with persons under 15 years of age was signed by numerous intellectuals, including Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze, amongothers.
GENDER AS COLONIAL OBJECT There are at least two ways of correcting this relative neglect. One would be to pay closer attention to the way gender relations have punctuated the history of the production, possession, and display of colonial objects. Another way would be to consider how the category of gender itself might intersect with the history of colonialism. Inother
HOW SHAME PLAYS A PRODUCTIVE ROLE IN RACIAL JUSTICE This is interesting because it flags a shift in how shame is understood. While shame is usually what we feel when we break with cultural norms, in regard to racial justice in these progressive circles, shame is what we feel when we don’t break with norms (“privileges”) enough. In this way, shame is a feeling that caninvite us to break
THE POLITICS OF FEMALE SEXUALITY IN 'LIPSTICK UNDER MY The title Lipstick Under My Burkha might seem to suggest a bias towards lipstick over the burkha. One can easily read the film as showing women wanting desperately to come out of the burkha and embrace the world that the lipstick inhabits. However, in the film, women share a vexed relationship with both the lipstick and the burkha. While Rehana THE COVID LAB-LEAK DEBATE IS DESTRUCTIVE 3 hours ago · Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. ISSUES FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 10, 2021 2 hours ago · Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers.BACK TO BELIEF
3 hours ago · 1 David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1896 (1739), Book I, Part 3, Section 7, 96. 2 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, trans. Josefine THE STORY OF THE SPUTNIK V VACCINE 3 hours ago · 1 Introduction to Tony Wood, Russia Without Putin: Money, Power, and the Myths of the New Cold War (London; New York: Verso Books, 2018). 2 Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies (London; New York: Routledge, 2011), chapters 10, 23. 3 For a classic scholarly treatment, see David Joravsky, The Lysenko Affair (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1970). JACOB BROWNING, AUTHOR AT PUBLIC SEMINAR 11 hours ago · Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. FOR ONLY $184 MILLION YOU CAN HAVE A BESPOKE LABOR 2 hours ago · Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHY ISN'T JOE MANCHIN FOR THE PEOPLE? 2 hours ago · Photo credit: DonkeyHotey / WikiMedia Commons _____ Complaining that “the fundamental right to vote has itself become overtly politicized,” Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) published an op-ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail yesterday saying that he would vote against S1, the For the People Act, arguing that protecting the right to vote should “never be done in a partisan manner.” WHY MAYA WILEY COULD BE NEW YORK CITY'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR 2 hours ago · Photo credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com _____ It’s a move that may provide an important last-minute jolt of energy for undecided progressives: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, NY-14) has endorsed activist and civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley for Mayor of New York City. And it isn’t just an Instagram moment: it is a recognition of what Wiley has already achieved. THE BUSINESS PACS ARE BACK IN BUSINESS 2 hours ago · Photo credit: Anne Mathiasz / Shutterstock.com _____ Roll Call reported political action committees (PACs) have restarted making contributions to members of the United States Congress. This includes the 147 Republicans who voted against certifying Electoral College votes after the militant storming of the United States Capitol. Cash to both parties mostly stopped in the weeks after the WHY “ABOLITION OF THE POLICE” IS A BAD IDEA Because the United States remains an extremely violent society, in ways that the rhetoric of “abolish the police” simply ignores. The U.S. is by far the most armed society in the world not suffering from civil war. It is estimated that in 2019 alone, 13.9 million firearms were purchased by Americans. HOME - PUBLIC SEMINARABOUTOUR TEAMSEMINARSESSAYSWEEKLY ISSUESDONATE Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHAT COMPUTERS CAN EXPLAIN Photo credit: ioat / Shutterstock.com _____ The mystery of learning is as old as philosophy: how does the nearly insensate newborn become,within
WHY WEIMAR IS AN IMPERFECT MIRROR Comments (1) One thought on “ Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror ”. In Fritz Stern’s book — Five Germanys I Have Known — he claimed the end of the Weimar Republic was neither accidental nor inevitable. One point out of many: “Ebert’s men relied on elements of HANNAH LEFFINGWELL, AUTHOR AT PUBLIC SEMINAR Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHAT DID ARISTOTLE THINK ABOUT SLAVERY? Aristotle first turns to those who believe that slavery is conventional. This was a view held by other teachers in Athens at the time. He agrees with those who think that slavery cannot be justified by war or conquest. Wars, he remarks, are not always just, so we cannot assume that those taken captive in a war have been justlyenslaved.
FOR AND AGAINST THE ANTHROPOCENE A bigger concern of Against the Anthropocene is to contest the very concept itself. According to Demos, a major problem with the Anthropocene concept is the way in which it universalizes the roots of the eco-crisis by situating it among the anthropos, i.e., humanity in general, when it is in fact the result of a specific set of actionstaken by
VOID BITCHES
Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. GENDER AS COLONIAL OBJECT There are at least two ways of correcting this relative neglect. One would be to pay closer attention to the way gender relations have punctuated the history of the production, possession, and display of colonial objects. Another way would be to consider how the category of gender itself might intersect with the history of colonialism. Inother
WHY WE SHOULDN’T CANCEL FOUCAULT AGB: Foucault was clearly not the only one who tolerated sexual relations with minors. The 1977 letter in favor of modifying the consent law and decriminalizing consensual sexual relations with persons under 15 years of age was signed by numerous intellectuals, including Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze, amongothers.
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION THEORY AND THE TRANSGENDER TURN Vance believed that social construction theory could show us that “ he future is less closed than we feared, but perhaps more open than we hoped.”. Gherovici, on the other hand, speaks from the future of Vance’s 1989 piece. And in doing so she delves into the openness described by Vance, in order to show that the material body not only HOME - PUBLIC SEMINARABOUTOUR TEAMSEMINARSESSAYSWEEKLY ISSUESDONATE Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHAT COMPUTERS CAN EXPLAIN Photo credit: ioat / Shutterstock.com _____ The mystery of learning is as old as philosophy: how does the nearly insensate newborn become,within
WHY WEIMAR IS AN IMPERFECT MIRROR Comments (1) One thought on “ Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror ”. In Fritz Stern’s book — Five Germanys I Have Known — he claimed the end of the Weimar Republic was neither accidental nor inevitable. One point out of many: “Ebert’s men relied on elements of HANNAH LEFFINGWELL, AUTHOR AT PUBLIC SEMINAR Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHAT DID ARISTOTLE THINK ABOUT SLAVERY? Aristotle first turns to those who believe that slavery is conventional. This was a view held by other teachers in Athens at the time. He agrees with those who think that slavery cannot be justified by war or conquest. Wars, he remarks, are not always just, so we cannot assume that those taken captive in a war have been justlyenslaved.
FOR AND AGAINST THE ANTHROPOCENE A bigger concern of Against the Anthropocene is to contest the very concept itself. According to Demos, a major problem with the Anthropocene concept is the way in which it universalizes the roots of the eco-crisis by situating it among the anthropos, i.e., humanity in general, when it is in fact the result of a specific set of actionstaken by
VOID BITCHES
Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. GENDER AS COLONIAL OBJECT There are at least two ways of correcting this relative neglect. One would be to pay closer attention to the way gender relations have punctuated the history of the production, possession, and display of colonial objects. Another way would be to consider how the category of gender itself might intersect with the history of colonialism. Inother
WHY WE SHOULDN’T CANCEL FOUCAULT AGB: Foucault was clearly not the only one who tolerated sexual relations with minors. The 1977 letter in favor of modifying the consent law and decriminalizing consensual sexual relations with persons under 15 years of age was signed by numerous intellectuals, including Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze, amongothers.
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION THEORY AND THE TRANSGENDER TURN Vance believed that social construction theory could show us that “ he future is less closed than we feared, but perhaps more open than we hoped.”. Gherovici, on the other hand, speaks from the future of Vance’s 1989 piece. And in doing so she delves into the openness described by Vance, in order to show that the material body not only WHAT COMPUTERS CAN EXPLAIN Photo credit: ioat / Shutterstock.com _____ The mystery of learning is as old as philosophy: how does the nearly insensate newborn become,within
THE BUSINESS PACS ARE BACK IN BUSINESS 1 day ago · Photo credit: Anne Mathiasz / Shutterstock.com _____ Roll Call reported political action committees (PACs) have restarted making contributions to members of the United States Congress. This includes the 147 Republicans who voted against certifying Electoral College votes after the militant storming of the United States Capitol. Cash to both parties mostly stopped in the weeks after the FOR ONLY $184 MILLION YOU CAN HAVE A BESPOKE LABOR Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. JACOB BROWNING, AUTHOR AT PUBLIC SEMINAR Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. EMBRACING DEMOCRACY: THE STORMING OF THE US CAPITOL AND Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHY MAYA WILEY COULD BE NEW YORK CITY'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR Photo credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com _____ It’s a move that may provide an important last-minute jolt of energy for undecided progressives: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, NY-14) has endorsed activist and civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley for Mayor of New York City. And it isn’t just an Instagram moment: it is a recognition of what Wiley has already achieved. THE LAS VEGAS RAIDERS AND A RAID ON NEVADA’S FINANCES Photo credit: Katherine Carey / Shutterstock.com _____ In 2016, the football team now called the Las Vegas Raiders received the largest stadium subsidy in American history — $750 million — to ditch their allegiance to Oakland, California and relocate to Sin City. The state legislature approved the $750 million, which contributed to the $2 billion tab to build the team’s current home WHY “ABOLITION OF THE POLICE” IS A BAD IDEA Because the United States remains an extremely violent society, in ways that the rhetoric of “abolish the police” simply ignores. The U.S. is by far the most armed society in the world not suffering from civil war. It is estimated that in 2019 alone, 13.9 million firearms were purchased by Americans. THE ANXIETY INDUSTRY This essay was originally published on May 17 2019. Anxiety — that chronic, widespread uncertainty proliferating out of the insecurities that exemplify modern life — has become the lodestone of 21 st century consumer capitalism.. From fidget spinners, gravity blankets, CBD oils, air fresheners and skincare products to white noise machines, salt lamps, calming diffusers and the countless WHY STREET FIGHTING IS NO WAY TO RESIST FASCISM In his survey of the precursors to antifa in America, Bray begins his book with a brief, tendentious history of interwar anti-fascism. He focuses on the Italian Arditi del Popolo and the Weimar period Roter Frontkämpferbund (RFB) in Germany.. The Arditi del Popolo was a non-party organization that drew from all elements of the Italian left, from individualist anarchists to Communists (whose HOME - PUBLIC SEMINARABOUTOUR TEAMSEMINARSESSAYSWEEKLY ISSUESDONATE Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHY WEIMAR IS AN IMPERFECT MIRROR Comments (1) One thought on “ Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror ”. In Fritz Stern’s book — Five Germanys I Have Known — he claimed the end of the Weimar Republic was neither accidental nor inevitable. One point out of many: “Ebert’s men relied on elements ofVOID BITCHES
Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. HANNAH LEFFINGWELL, AUTHOR AT PUBLIC SEMINAR Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. FOR AND AGAINST THE ANTHROPOCENE A bigger concern of Against the Anthropocene is to contest the very concept itself. According to Demos, a major problem with the Anthropocene concept is the way in which it universalizes the roots of the eco-crisis by situating it among the anthropos, i.e., humanity in general, when it is in fact the result of a specific set of actionstaken by
GENDER AS COLONIAL OBJECT There are at least two ways of correcting this relative neglect. One would be to pay closer attention to the way gender relations have punctuated the history of the production, possession, and display of colonial objects. Another way would be to consider how the category of gender itself might intersect with the history of colonialism. Inother
WHY DO MEN LIKE PORNOGRAPHY? Pornography offers a man not just sexual pleasure, but also what feels like total control over himself and women. It is a quintessential sexual experience in patriarchy—pleasure without vulnerability. But that sense of control, over self and others, is both an illusion and a delusion, and men would benefit from understanding this. THE POLITICS OF FEMALE SEXUALITY IN 'LIPSTICK UNDER MY The title Lipstick Under My Burkha might seem to suggest a bias towards lipstick over the burkha. One can easily read the film as showing women wanting desperately to come out of the burkha and embrace the world that the lipstick inhabits. However, in the film, women share a vexed relationship with both the lipstick and the burkha. While Rehana WHY DO WE STILL BELIEVE IN HOMEOPATHY? Today we enjoy the fruits of millennia of experimentation. While Samuel Hahnemann believed the cause of disease could never be known and that sickness is a spiritual state, advancements such as the double blind trial, as well as germ theory and disease specificity, have disproven his theories. Yet we still buy in. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION THEORY AND THE TRANSGENDER TURN Vance believed that social construction theory could show us that “ he future is less closed than we feared, but perhaps more open than we hoped.”. Gherovici, on the other hand, speaks from the future of Vance’s 1989 piece. And in doing so she delves into the openness described by Vance, in order to show that the material body not only HOME - PUBLIC SEMINARABOUTOUR TEAMSEMINARSESSAYSWEEKLY ISSUESDONATE Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHY WEIMAR IS AN IMPERFECT MIRROR Comments (1) One thought on “ Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror ”. In Fritz Stern’s book — Five Germanys I Have Known — he claimed the end of the Weimar Republic was neither accidental nor inevitable. One point out of many: “Ebert’s men relied on elements ofVOID BITCHES
Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. HANNAH LEFFINGWELL, AUTHOR AT PUBLIC SEMINAR Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. FOR AND AGAINST THE ANTHROPOCENE A bigger concern of Against the Anthropocene is to contest the very concept itself. According to Demos, a major problem with the Anthropocene concept is the way in which it universalizes the roots of the eco-crisis by situating it among the anthropos, i.e., humanity in general, when it is in fact the result of a specific set of actionstaken by
GENDER AS COLONIAL OBJECT There are at least two ways of correcting this relative neglect. One would be to pay closer attention to the way gender relations have punctuated the history of the production, possession, and display of colonial objects. Another way would be to consider how the category of gender itself might intersect with the history of colonialism. Inother
WHY DO MEN LIKE PORNOGRAPHY? Pornography offers a man not just sexual pleasure, but also what feels like total control over himself and women. It is a quintessential sexual experience in patriarchy—pleasure without vulnerability. But that sense of control, over self and others, is both an illusion and a delusion, and men would benefit from understanding this. THE POLITICS OF FEMALE SEXUALITY IN 'LIPSTICK UNDER MY The title Lipstick Under My Burkha might seem to suggest a bias towards lipstick over the burkha. One can easily read the film as showing women wanting desperately to come out of the burkha and embrace the world that the lipstick inhabits. However, in the film, women share a vexed relationship with both the lipstick and the burkha. While Rehana WHY DO WE STILL BELIEVE IN HOMEOPATHY? Today we enjoy the fruits of millennia of experimentation. While Samuel Hahnemann believed the cause of disease could never be known and that sickness is a spiritual state, advancements such as the double blind trial, as well as germ theory and disease specificity, have disproven his theories. Yet we still buy in. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION THEORY AND THE TRANSGENDER TURN Vance believed that social construction theory could show us that “ he future is less closed than we feared, but perhaps more open than we hoped.”. Gherovici, on the other hand, speaks from the future of Vance’s 1989 piece. And in doing so she delves into the openness described by Vance, in order to show that the material body not only THE BUSINESS PACS ARE BACK IN BUSINESS 12 hours ago · Photo credit: Anne Mathiasz / Shutterstock.com _____ Roll Call reported political action committees (PACs) have restarted making contributions to members of the United States Congress. This includes the 147 Republicans who voted against certifying Electoral College votes after the militant storming of the United States Capitol. Cash to both parties mostly stopped in the weeks after the WHY MAYA WILEY COULD BE NEW YORK CITY'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR 1 day ago · Photo credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com _____ It’s a move that may provide an important last-minute jolt of energy for undecided progressives: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, NY-14) has endorsed activist and civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley for Mayor of New York City. And it isn’t just an Instagram moment: it is a recognition of what Wiley has already achieved.A PUBLIC SERVICE
Pingback: "Unethical acts — not just illegal ones — need to be revealed.Society can only evolve when individuals stand up and shine a light on unethical practices. If you see something that doesn’t seem right, speak up.” —Tim Schwartz, author of A PUBLIC SERVICE, writes in A Public Seminar - THE LAS VEGAS RAIDERS AND A RAID ON NEVADA’S FINANCES 1 day ago · Photo credit: Katherine Carey / Shutterstock.com _____ In 2016, the football team now called the Las Vegas Raiders received the largest stadium subsidy in American history — $750 million — to ditch their allegiance to Oakland, California and relocate to Sin City. The state legislature approved the $750 million, which contributed to the $2 billion tab to build the team’s current home HOW TO KEEP YOUR SOUL INTACT to twist the sinews of the heart and keep the fur tidy. and arithmetically clean, avoiding all the unhappiness. of man by staying alone in his own room. II. Last night I dreamed there was a tiger sleeping. in the bosom of the family, the same light canary. color as the dog. And as with all things, it fell. EMBRACING DEMOCRACY: THE STORMING OF THE US CAPITOL AND Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. OPPRESSION, RESISTANCE AND HIGH-TECH Technology empowered the resistance. The new information technology made it easier to spread information, to network, to organize and mobilize the social movement. But technology has also been used to facilitate oppression. For the past few years, an unprecedented “high-tech totalitarianism” is looming in China. IS JOE BIDEN A SOCIALIST? The Chicago Daily Tribune urged Republicans to vote against a Democratic presidential candidate in order to end “costly experiments in state socialism.”Democrats, the writer wailed, sought to “clothe the federal government with paramount power over every kind of enterprise.” A Republican slur against the $1.9 trillion economic rescue package that President-Elect Joe Biden unveiled on THE ANXIETY INDUSTRY This essay was originally published on May 17 2019. Anxiety — that chronic, widespread uncertainty proliferating out of the insecurities that exemplify modern life — has become the lodestone of 21 st century consumer capitalism.. From fidget spinners, gravity blankets, CBD oils, air fresheners and skincare products to white noise machines, salt lamps, calming diffusers and the countless WHY STREET FIGHTING IS NO WAY TO RESIST FASCISM In his survey of the precursors to antifa in America, Bray begins his book with a brief, tendentious history of interwar anti-fascism. He focuses on the Italian Arditi del Popolo and the Weimar period Roter Frontkämpferbund (RFB) in Germany.. The Arditi del Popolo was a non-party organization that drew from all elements of the Italian left, from individualist anarchists to Communists (whose HOME - PUBLIC SEMINARABOUTOUR TEAMSEMINARSESSAYSWEEKLY ISSUESDONATE Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHY WEIMAR IS AN IMPERFECT MIRROR Comments (1) One thought on “ Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror ”. In Fritz Stern’s book — Five Germanys I Have Known — he claimed the end of the Weimar Republic was neither accidental nor inevitable. One point out of many: “Ebert’s men relied on elements ofVOID BITCHES
Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. HANNAH LEFFINGWELL, AUTHOR AT PUBLIC SEMINAR Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. FOR AND AGAINST THE ANTHROPOCENE A bigger concern of Against the Anthropocene is to contest the very concept itself. According to Demos, a major problem with the Anthropocene concept is the way in which it universalizes the roots of the eco-crisis by situating it among the anthropos, i.e., humanity in general, when it is in fact the result of a specific set of actionstaken by
GENDER AS COLONIAL OBJECT There are at least two ways of correcting this relative neglect. One would be to pay closer attention to the way gender relations have punctuated the history of the production, possession, and display of colonial objects. Another way would be to consider how the category of gender itself might intersect with the history of colonialism. Inother
WHY DO MEN LIKE PORNOGRAPHY? Pornography offers a man not just sexual pleasure, but also what feels like total control over himself and women. It is a quintessential sexual experience in patriarchy—pleasure without vulnerability. But that sense of control, over self and others, is both an illusion and a delusion, and men would benefit from understanding this. THE POLITICS OF FEMALE SEXUALITY IN 'LIPSTICK UNDER MY The title Lipstick Under My Burkha might seem to suggest a bias towards lipstick over the burkha. One can easily read the film as showing women wanting desperately to come out of the burkha and embrace the world that the lipstick inhabits. However, in the film, women share a vexed relationship with both the lipstick and the burkha. While Rehana WHY DO WE STILL BELIEVE IN HOMEOPATHY? Today we enjoy the fruits of millennia of experimentation. While Samuel Hahnemann believed the cause of disease could never be known and that sickness is a spiritual state, advancements such as the double blind trial, as well as germ theory and disease specificity, have disproven his theories. Yet we still buy in. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION THEORY AND THE TRANSGENDER TURN Vance believed that social construction theory could show us that “ he future is less closed than we feared, but perhaps more open than we hoped.”. Gherovici, on the other hand, speaks from the future of Vance’s 1989 piece. And in doing so she delves into the openness described by Vance, in order to show that the material body not only HOME - PUBLIC SEMINARABOUTOUR TEAMSEMINARSESSAYSWEEKLY ISSUESDONATE Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. WHY WEIMAR IS AN IMPERFECT MIRROR Comments (1) One thought on “ Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror ”. In Fritz Stern’s book — Five Germanys I Have Known — he claimed the end of the Weimar Republic was neither accidental nor inevitable. One point out of many: “Ebert’s men relied on elements ofVOID BITCHES
Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. HANNAH LEFFINGWELL, AUTHOR AT PUBLIC SEMINAR Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. FOR AND AGAINST THE ANTHROPOCENE A bigger concern of Against the Anthropocene is to contest the very concept itself. According to Demos, a major problem with the Anthropocene concept is the way in which it universalizes the roots of the eco-crisis by situating it among the anthropos, i.e., humanity in general, when it is in fact the result of a specific set of actionstaken by
GENDER AS COLONIAL OBJECT There are at least two ways of correcting this relative neglect. One would be to pay closer attention to the way gender relations have punctuated the history of the production, possession, and display of colonial objects. Another way would be to consider how the category of gender itself might intersect with the history of colonialism. Inother
WHY DO MEN LIKE PORNOGRAPHY? Pornography offers a man not just sexual pleasure, but also what feels like total control over himself and women. It is a quintessential sexual experience in patriarchy—pleasure without vulnerability. But that sense of control, over self and others, is both an illusion and a delusion, and men would benefit from understanding this. THE POLITICS OF FEMALE SEXUALITY IN 'LIPSTICK UNDER MY The title Lipstick Under My Burkha might seem to suggest a bias towards lipstick over the burkha. One can easily read the film as showing women wanting desperately to come out of the burkha and embrace the world that the lipstick inhabits. However, in the film, women share a vexed relationship with both the lipstick and the burkha. While Rehana WHY DO WE STILL BELIEVE IN HOMEOPATHY? Today we enjoy the fruits of millennia of experimentation. While Samuel Hahnemann believed the cause of disease could never be known and that sickness is a spiritual state, advancements such as the double blind trial, as well as germ theory and disease specificity, have disproven his theories. Yet we still buy in. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION THEORY AND THE TRANSGENDER TURN Vance believed that social construction theory could show us that “ he future is less closed than we feared, but perhaps more open than we hoped.”. Gherovici, on the other hand, speaks from the future of Vance’s 1989 piece. And in doing so she delves into the openness described by Vance, in order to show that the material body not only WHY MAYA WILEY COULD BE NEW YORK CITY'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR 1 day ago · Photo credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com _____ It’s a move that may provide an important last-minute jolt of energy for undecided progressives: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, NY-14) has endorsed activist and civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley for Mayor of New York City. And it isn’t just an Instagram moment: it is a recognition of what Wiley has already achieved. FOR ONLY $184 MILLION YOU CAN HAVE A BESPOKE LABOR 1 day ago · Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers.A PUBLIC SERVICE
Pingback: "Unethical acts — not just illegal ones — need to be revealed.Society can only evolve when individuals stand up and shine a light on unethical practices. If you see something that doesn’t seem right, speak up.” —Tim Schwartz, author of A PUBLIC SERVICE, writes in A Public Seminar - THE LAS VEGAS RAIDERS AND A RAID ON NEVADA’S FINANCES 1 day ago · Photo credit: Katherine Carey / Shutterstock.com _____ In 2016, the football team now called the Las Vegas Raiders received the largest stadium subsidy in American history — $750 million — to ditch their allegiance to Oakland, California and relocate to Sin City. The state legislature approved the $750 million, which contributed to the $2 billion tab to build the team’s current home HOW TO KEEP YOUR SOUL INTACT to twist the sinews of the heart and keep the fur tidy. and arithmetically clean, avoiding all the unhappiness. of man by staying alone in his own room. II. Last night I dreamed there was a tiger sleeping. in the bosom of the family, the same light canary. color as the dog. And as with all things, it fell. EMBRACING DEMOCRACY: THE STORMING OF THE US CAPITOL AND Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers. IS JOE BIDEN A SOCIALIST? The Chicago Daily Tribune urged Republicans to vote against a Democratic presidential candidate in order to end “costly experiments in state socialism.”Democrats, the writer wailed, sought to “clothe the federal government with paramount power over every kind of enterprise.” A Republican slur against the $1.9 trillion economic rescue package that President-Elect Joe Biden unveiled on THE ANXIETY INDUSTRY This essay was originally published on May 17 2019. Anxiety — that chronic, widespread uncertainty proliferating out of the insecurities that exemplify modern life — has become the lodestone of 21 st century consumer capitalism.. From fidget spinners, gravity blankets, CBD oils, air fresheners and skincare products to white noise machines, salt lamps, calming diffusers and the countless JFK'S QUEER WHITE HOUSE Week of May 20. President John F. Kennedy has become infamous for his vivid, and some might say almost compulsive, heterosexual affairs. But straight men can have a gay side, and JFK’s life was filled with prominent gay men, friendships which open the door to other histories. At least one of these intimates, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings WHY STREET FIGHTING IS NO WAY TO RESIST FASCISM In his survey of the precursors to antifa in America, Bray begins his book with a brief, tendentious history of interwar anti-fascism. He focuses on the Italian Arditi del Popolo and the Weimar period Roter Frontkämpferbund (RFB) in Germany.. The Arditi del Popolo was a non-party organization that drew from all elements of the Italian left, from individualist anarchists to Communists (whoseSkip to content
Public Seminar
* About
* Our Team
* Seminars
* Essays
* Weekly Issues
* Donate
More
__ Search
Search __
__
__ More
__ Search
Search __
__
PODCASTS
* A12
* Exiles on 12th Street* Past Present
* Tempest Tossed
* Unproductive Labor* Reviews
* Letters
------------------------- LATEST + BEYOND THE ISSUESPast Present
Critical Race TheoryMay 25, 2021
Nicole Hemmer
, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Neil J. Young
Past Present
Gas Panics and the Colonial Pipeline Cybersecurity BreachMay 18, 2021
Nicole
Hemmer , Natalia Mehlman Petrzela , Neil J. YoungPast Present
The Past and Future of the OfficeMay 4, 2021
Nicole
Hemmer , Natalia Mehlman Petrzela , Neil J. YoungPast Present
RuPaul and the History of DragApril 28, 2021
Nicole
Hemmer , Natalia Mehlman Petrzela , Neil J. YoungPast Present
A Roaring Twenties Redux?April 20, 2021
Nicole
Hemmer , Natalia Mehlman Petrzela , Neil J. YoungRace
Why the Howling That New York’s Private Schools Have Been Taken Over By Critical Race Theory?April 20, 2021
Claire
Potter
Past Present
The Debate over School ReopeningApril 13, 2021
Nicole
Hemmer , Natalia Mehlman Petrzela , Neil J. YoungPodcast
Beverly Cleary
April 6, 2021
Nicole Hemmer
, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Neil J. Young
Past Present
The Atlanta and Boulder Mass ShootingsMarch 30, 2021
Nicole
Hemmer , Natalia Mehlman Petrzela , Neil J. YoungPolitics
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ControversiesMarch 23, 2021
Nicole
Hemmer , Natalia Mehlman Petrzela , Neil J. YoungPast Present
The Interview: Oprah, Meghan, and HarryMarch 18, 2021
Nicole
Hemmer , Natalia Mehlman Petrzela , Neil J. YoungHistory
An Empire of SanctionsMarch 12, 2021
Renate
Bridenthal , Molly
Nolan , Prasannan
Parthasarathi
Informing debate about the pressing issues of our times Curated Essays for theWEEK OF JUNE 3
Previous Weeks
*
Politics
The Decline of Colombia’s Centaur State Julián Gómez Delgado Sociology and Historical Studies PhD student at The New School forSocial Research
We Don’t Need a Commission to Study January 6Claire Potter
Co-executive Editor, Public Seminar and Professor of History, The New School for Social Research The Perfect Dictatorship Francisco Rodríguez Venezuelan economist; director and founder of Oil for Venezuela*
The Economy
Corporate Handouts Kill Small Businesses. So Why Do Politicians Continue to Offer Them Up?Pat Garofalo
Author and director of state and local policy at the American EconomicLiberties Project
*
The Media
The Rise of the “Influencer-Intellectuals” Annabelle Schwartz-Horney Spring 2021 graduate of The New School with a major in politics.*
Books
Murder, Marines, and the Mojave Bliss Bowen and DeanneStillman
*
Podcasts
Cicadas!
Nicole Hemmer , Natalia Mehlman Petrzela andNeil J. Young
*
Our Columnists
Democrat-in-Chief
Heather Cox Richardson Professor of History, Boston College No, It’s not Shocking that QAnon Believers Long for a Military coup. For Them, This Is the End TimesJohn Stoehr
Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board -------------------------Public Seminar
* About
* Our Team
* Seminars
* Essays
* Weekly Issues
* Donate
-------------------------SEMINARS
* Arts & Design
* Capitalism
* Democracy
* Fashion, Emotion and Self* Imaginal Politics
* Literature As Translation* Media/Publics
* Mobilities
* New School Histories* Past Present
* Platform Co-Ops
* Psyche
* Race/isms
* Sex & Gender
* Reviews
* Letters
PODCASTS
* A12
* Exiles on 12th Street* Past Present
* Tempest Tossed
* Unproductive Labor* Reviews
* Letters
------------------------- Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. We are a non-profit organization, wholly supported by The New School, and by the generosity of our sponsors and readers.NEWSLETTER
Sign up for our weekly newsletter to receive selections from each week’s issue of _Public Seminar_ and to dig deeply into the pressingissues of our time.
SPONSORS
MICHAEL E. GELLERT
CONNECT WITH US
__ Facebook
__ Twitter
__ Instagram
------------------------- Copyright © 2014–2021 The Editorial Board of Public Seminar, AllRights Reserved.
Details
Copyright © 2024 ArchiveBay.com. All rights reserved. Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | DMCA | 2021 | Feedback | Advertising | RSS 2.0