Category: Essays

Alain Badiou’s Hypothesis and the Arab Left as Contemporaries of May 68

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Post date June 8, 2020
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by Dabya
“What united them was not the vocabulary of classes or proletarian leadership, but the vocabulary of revolution and change in the broadest sense. For those who incorporated their bodies, thoughts, affects, and potentialities into a certain political truth procedure, and who became ‘militant[s] of this truth,’ the change had to look a certain way..”

Essays Political Theory

Between Comrades and Competition: COVID-19 and the Vices of the Human Condition

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Post date May 30, 2020
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by L.W.
“Beyond those who risk infection at their jobs, the community oriented, self-sacrificing behavior of many is evidenced, in part, by an explosion of efforts toward charity, mutual aid, and collective action.”

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Direct Action Gets the Goods: The Black Student Union and the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Houston, 1985-1987

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Post date May 30, 2020
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by Brant Roberts
“It took direct actions, protests, rallies and months of planning to make the dream of divestment a living reality.”

Tags Anti-Apartheid, Apartheid, BDS, Brant Roberts, Direct Action, Divestment, fascism, Houston, Houston Review of Books, Palestine, Racism, South Africa, University of Houston