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Asad Haider interviewed on “How Identity Politics has Divided the Left”

Posted on June 2, 2018 by

“What was once intended as a revolutionary strategy to take down interlocking oppressions has become a nebulous but charged buzzword co-opted across the political spectrum.”

Posted in fraternity, gender, melancholy, Nota Bene, resistance, rights, the common, the Left

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Jamil Khader: “Liberal Politics and the Challenge of White Supremacy: Anti-anti-Eurocentrism and the Question of Identity Politics”

Posted on May 26, 2018 by

‘Liberal and leftist commentators thus need to draw the ultimate radical conclusion from this anti-anti-Eurocentric position: The struggle for racial justice must be grounded in a dialectical materialist understanding of “the gap” between the particular and the universal which, according to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, not only destabilizes identity from within, but also serves as the foundation for a true universality. Žižek’s crucial point here is that identities should be taken up on the promise of actualizing this immanent universal dimension that was opened up precisely through the brutal history of genocide, slavery, colonialism, internment, etc.’

Posted in freedom, justice, Nota Bene, revolution, rights, Žižek

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Branko Marcetic: “Between Montgomery and Gaza”

Posted on May 26, 2018 by

“Mainstream columnists’ justification of Israeli violence against Palestinian protesters sounds a lot like condemnations of black civil rights activists five decades ago.”

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Lewis R. Gordon interviewed on Fanon’s “The Damned of the Earth”

Posted on May 2, 2018 by

“The tragedy is already staged in a system where innocence suffers. The good among both will suffer. Colonialism, enslavement, and racism are tragic so long as we understand that that the suffering of the damned is ignored or, for the most part, doesn’t matter. It is a lived reality of not mattering.”

Posted in Arendt, Fanon, freedom, gender, Nota Bene, revolution, tragic politics, tyranny, violence

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Jenna Nigro: “The Revolution of 1848 in Senegal: Emancipation and Representation”

Posted on April 30, 2018 by

“Emancipation and the introduction of metropolitan representation in Senegal forced those who made up the colony’s complex society to face the ways the meanings attached to status, race, free or enslaved status would change under the shifting policies of French colonial rule.”

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Nabila Ramdani: “A French revolution that pushed immigrants to the margins”

Posted on April 29, 2018 by

“The legacy of the ’68 Paris protests was not integration, but increased alienation for minorities.”

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Tithi Bhattacharya: “Women are leading the wave of strikes in America”

Posted on April 10, 2018 by

“These strikes are for wages and benefits, but they arise from a social landscape scoured by gender and racial inequalities.”

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Gary Younge: “Martin Luther King: how a rebel leader was lost to history”

Posted on April 4, 2018 by

“Fifty years after his death, the civil rights leader is a national treasure in the US. But what happened to his revolutionary legacy?”

Posted in Nota Bene, revolt, rights

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Chiara Bottici: “Anarchafeminism: Towards an ontology of the transindividual”

Posted on March 26, 2018 by

“At the beginning was movement: anarchism does not mean absence of order, but rather searching for a social order without an orderer.”

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“These revolutionary Black women had no time for racial patriarchy”

Posted on March 8, 2018 by

“Today we’re celebrating some of the most badass Black women who said NO to racial patriarchy and racial capitalism.”

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