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Browsing Archive February, 2017

  • Editorial Note 0

    Introduction to Issue #7

    I write this introduction to Issue # 7 in the state of melancholy most of our readers share, or have experienced, since November 8, 2016. One truly appalling dimension of ...

    On February 27, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    Long Lasting Days

    By MINA KARAVANTA These days I take the long way to work, past the old international airport of Athens, the “Hellinikon”, located on Poseidonos Avenue washed by the ...

    On February 27, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    Unlovable Neighbors: The living architecture of my Philadelphia neighborhood

    By MARCO ROTH The old man stands motionless, feet shoulder-width apart, atop the steam grate at the back of the convenience store on the 13th street side. He ...

    On February 27, 2017 / By Editor
  • Interview 2

    Critique’s Persistence: An Interview with Sianne Ngai

    By MIKKEL BOLT RASMUSSEN and DEVIKA SHARMA This interview appeared in Danish in Kultur & Klasse (Culture & Class). Rasmussen & Sharma [R & S]: Your books Ugly ...

    On February 27, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    How to Win Your Grad Union

    By ANDREA CROW In early 2014, I got a phone call late at night from a fellow Columbia Ph.D. student telling me that a group of graduate workers ...

    On February 27, 2017 / By Editor
  • Media 1

    Life Chances: Orange is the New Black and Drama of Privilege

    By SEAN McCANN White oblivion about… privilege acts as a psychological prison system that costs white people heavily in terms of preventing human development. Walking obliviously through our ...

    On February 27, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    The Original Pussyhat?

    By BRAD EVANS Of the thousands of demonstrators marching the day after the inauguration, a good percentage were wearing what Rod Dreher of The American Conservative decided to call, ...

    On February 27, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    Anti-Semitism?

    By BRUCE ROBBINS This essay was first delivered as a talk on a panel called “New Classroom Boundaries” at the Modern Language Association convention in Philadelphia in January. ...

    On February 27, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    Ending of the American Century

    By JAMES LIVINGSTON So much for the horror of that neoliberal bond between Henry Kissinger and Hillary Clinton.  I hope your vote wasn’t cast as a result of such ...

    On February 27, 2017 / By Editor
  • Video 0

    How Shlomo Sand Stopped Being a Jew (Trailer)

    Trailer for the upcoming film by Bruce Robbins. ...

    On February 27, 2017 / By Editor
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Table of Contents

  • Introduction to Issue #15
  • Is Capitalism Necessarily Racist?
  • Capitalism, Racism and Totality: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • The Answer Is No: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • Coddled?
  • Our Benevolent Feudalism
  • On Refugee Literature and the Art of Giving a Fuck
  • Zanzibar in Ivoryton
  • Figures of Catastrophe

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