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December 2, 2010 - 9:17pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Ecology

COP-16 in Cancún: Day 1 Intlibecosoc

December 1, 2010 - 8:10am -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
In the Streets

The Antagonistic University? A Conversation on Cuts, Conviviality and Capitalism

Anja: Let me begin by posing three questions. Firstly, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that modes of labour are appropriating cognitive, communicational and affective skills. What does this mean to you for the political potential of academic and collaborative work?

November 28, 2010 - 5:39am -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
Reviews

Comments on Li Minqi's The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy Lang Yan

November 28, 2010 - 5:36am -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
Ecology

Gulf Coast Resistance: What Does Resistance Look Like? The Niger Delta Model Ray Boudreaux

Calculated Risks

November 28, 2010 - 5:32am -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
Theory

“Peak Oil” and “Resource Curses” from a Class Perspective George Caffentzis

[From a presentation at the Historical Materialism Conference, CUNY Grad Center, New York, NY, Jan. 14-16, 2010.]

November 28, 2010 - 5:26am -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
Theory

Emancipation under Conditions that the Left Didn’t Want: Generalized Resource Shortages as a Historical Crisis of the Social Andreas Exner, Christian Lauk & Konstantin Kulterer

“If there is a lack of appropriate analysis of environmental processes and societal relations to nature because they don’t fit into the wishful thinking of ‘eternal capitalism,’ dangerous ways of ideologically processing the crisis can gain momentum.”

November 26, 2010 - 2:04pm -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
The State

"Government Cuts: As Stupid As They Seem?" Hillel Ticktin

[There are a surprising lack of convincing explanations as to why the capitalist class is pushing through the present unprecedented austerity drive - even at the risk of provoking both mass opposition and a double-dip recession. The following excerpts, from Hillel Ticktin's recent articles in Critique, do offer an interesting partial explanation.]

November 25, 2010 - 10:25pm -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
In the Streets

The Debt-Based Tendency of Japan’s Student Movement: The View of the Association of Blacklisted Students Norihito Nakata

November 19, 2010 - 1:17pm -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
Culture

Does the Notion of Activist Art Still Have Meaning? Alain Badiou

[Is it still possible to propose a general definition of a militant vision of artistic creation? Alain Badiou proposes a work of art which is in relationship to local transformations and experiences, which is intellectually ambitious and which is formally avant-garde in the classical sense of the substitution of presentation for an ornamental vision of representation. A Lecture presented at the Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York City, October 13, 2010, in collaboration with Lacanian Ink.]

November 17, 2010 - 9:38am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Electoral Politics

American Midterm Elections and Democracy A Video Interview with Noam Chomsky

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