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Browsing Archive March, 2018

  • Editorial Note 0

    Introduction to Issue #11

    Herewith is Issue #11 of Politics/Letters. We’re on a roll. The uncanny thematic of this new issue is, according to my deeply biased reading, a meditation on where ...

    On March 2, 2018 / By James Livingston
  • Photo © Matthew Friedman
    Essay 0

    Is There a Gay Literature of Poverty?

    The question may sound strange, but not necessarily for good reasons.  Despite the fact that LGBT people of all genders and races are poorer and earn less than ...

    On March 2, 2018 / By David Kurnick
  • Essay 0

    Registering Queerness: The Intersection of Sexuality and Criminality

    Despite the Supreme Court’s landmark marriage equality ruling in 2015, queer and trans people’s ability to freely express our gender and sexual identities remains under attack in the ...

    On March 2, 2018 / By David Booth
  • Essay 0

    Workers as Readers: On Coetzee’s Youth and the Poverty of Time

    I have steered the topic of this discussion in a direction of my own: I want to address the novel’s relationship, not to the most desperately poor, but ...

    On March 2, 2018 / By Christina Lupton
  • Photo © Matthew Friedman
    Essay 0

    “Done because we were too menny” The Poor, the Bad, and the Utopian

    In his essay, “Utopia as Replication,” Fredric Jameson puts forward what he himself terms a scandalous proposal: that Wal-Mart is “the new institutional candidate for the function of ...

    On March 2, 2018 / By Carolyn Lesjak
  • Essay 1

    Precarity or Inequality?

    In the era of the refugee, it’s both, of course. But there is still a point to knocking one term up against the other rather than settling too ...

    On March 2, 2018 / By Bruce Robbins
  • Essay 0

    Between the Exile and the Refugee: An Ethics of Reading

    At a moment when the term “refugee” is everywhere, it might be useful to reexamine the resonances of the “exile,” a term which lacks the legal architecture that ...

    On March 2, 2018 / By Eleni Coundouriotis
  • Essay 0

    Blackout: What Darkness Illuminated in Puerto Rico

    Almost immediately after Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico this past September 20, the island fell off the grid. Advancing with winds in excess of 155 miles ...

    On March 2, 2018 / By Frances Negrón-Muntaner
  • Interview 0

    Interview with Sally Rooney, author of Conversations with Friends

    Thought and action. We still tend to think of life in these terms. An action is a fact. What someone does is observable, documentable—it becomes evidence, then, what ...

    On March 2, 2018 / By Ben Libman
  • Essay 0

    The Year of Trump

    That general sigh you hear everywhere is recognition that the one-year mark is here not only for Donald Trump as president, but for the rest of us as ...

    On March 2, 2018 / By Terry Schwadron
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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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