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As Sara Danius describes it, The Poetics of Social Forms attempts
As Sara Danius describes it, The Poetics of Social Forms attempts to “provide a general history of aesthetic forms, at the same time seeking to show...

Based on the chimerical denial of a supposed undue primacy
Based on the chimerical denial of a supposed undue primacy accorded to epistemology, and on a wilful blindness to its own status as (bad) epistemology...

What I think we need to grapple with is the economizing tendency
What I think we need to grapple with is the economizing tendency of bourgeois society. What I mean by that is the idea that, within contemporary socie...

Badiou and Milner, both former Maoists in the 1960s have grown far
Badiou and Milner, both former Maoists in the 1960s have grown far apart politically in the ensuing decades. Of the varied problems they explore, four...

Bidet suggest that Foucault puts to light a different aspect of
Bidet suggest that Foucault puts to light a different aspect of the class structure, of the class relation. Whereas Marx focused on the ownership of t...

If you want a cohesive understanding of the situation in Greece,
If you want a cohesive understanding of the situation in Greece, the election happening on Sunday, and the dilemmas and possibilities of political and...

Weve fought the civil rights battle over the years. Weve done many
Weve fought the civil rights battle over the years. Weve done many electrifying things...[A]ll of these were great movements. They did a great deal to...

Boredom, it seems, might be so universally despised because it’s
Boredom, it seems, might be so universally despised because it’s indicative of an unhealthy mental state. But unlike, say, touching a hot stove, the...

In the midst of all the post-Paris grief, hypocrisy and hyperbole
In the midst of all the post-Paris grief, hypocrisy and hyperbole abounds. Yes, the attack was an act of unquantifiable evil; an inexcusable and merci...