Tag: politics
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Deleuze and Anarchism (2019) edited by Chantelle Gray Van Heerden, Aragorn Eloff
I just got my advance copy of Deleuze and Anarchism. Congratulations to the editors on this excellent book! Explores Deleuze and Guattari’s own diverse conceptions of anarchism and expands it in the spirit of their philosophy This collection of 13 essays addresses and explores Deleuze and Guattari’s relationship to the notion of anarchism: in the…
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Three Theses on Neoliberal Migration and Social Reproduction
Issue 27 of Polygraph is on “Neoliberalism and Social Reproduction” edited by Jaime Acosta Gonzalez, Jess Issacharoff, & Jacob Soule. Read the whole issue free online here Below is my contribution: Three Theses on Neoliberal Migration and Social Reproduction Today there are more than 1 billion regional and international migrants, and the number continues to rise:…
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Kinopolitics: Borders in Motion
We live in an age of movement. More than at any other time in history, people and things move longer distances, more frequently, and faster than ever before. We live in an age of world historical global migration, increas- ingly rapid climatic changes, of high-speed digital images, of accelerating universes and accelerated particles. All that…
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Militant Acts The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles, Marcelo Hoffman (Jan 2019)
This looks great! Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward. Militant Acts presents a broad history of the concept and practice of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century to the present. Radicals launched investigations into the conditions and struggles of the oppressed…
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Asylum Report from the US-Mexico border (Dec, 2018)
This report looks like essential reading for understanding what is going on at the US-Mexico border right now. Thanks to @_gesanchez for sharing this! The report is based on fieldwork conducted during this past November on 8 regions along the US Mexico border. It involves extensive observations at ports of entry, extensive caselaw analysis and…
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Sanctuary, Solidarity, Status!, Thomas Nail (2018)
I just got my copy of Open Borders, edited by Reece Jones. This is a landmark collection of work on open borders and is filled with excellent contributions. I will definitely be teaching from this! You can read my chapter from the book here. Abstract The aim of this chapter is to describe the current possible…
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A Companion To Marx’s Capital: The Complete Edition, David Harvey (2018)
The radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx’s work in an effort to understand the origins of our current political and economic crisis. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the…
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I Know There Are So Many of You, Alain Badiou (2018)
The history of humanity has only just begun. The Neolithic Revolution may have endowed us with unparalleled means of communication, subsistence, and knowledge acquisition. However, it is clear in today’s world that inequality, power hierarchies, and violence persist on a greater scale than ever before. In these two lectures, delivered to the large number of…
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Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities (2018)
Nice collection forthcoming in Dec 2018. Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities, Erik Swyngedouw & Henrik Ernstson, Eds., Routledge, 2018 This looks like a great paper on the importance of ecological value theory. Excerpt from “Value, Nature & The Vortex Of Accumulation,” Jason Moore and Richard Walker Why bother with value theory?…
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Entangled Worlds (2017)
Historically speaking, theology can be said to operate “materiaphobically.” Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over practice, in line with the distinction between a disembodied God and the inanimate world “He” created. Like all other human, social, and natural sciences, religious studies imported…
The Philosophy of Movement 