There’s a new wind blowing across this globalized world, from Tunisia to Egypt to Greece to Spain to Occupy Wall Street. How do the theoretical investigations of this site relate to this, to what’s new and emerging? This question of the emergence of novelty, of understanding this very changing world so as to help to [...]
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Financialization and hegemony
How does (or can) theoretical investigations relate to the rapidly developing “Occupy….” movement? This is a question I was asked recently, and to which I don’t have a ready answer. But the following essay covers a lot of important ground whose relationship to the present moment should be clear — the need for a revolutionary subject, [...]
‘Students of these movements, not their stupid professors’
What was it that began in Tunisia this year, and ramified in different forms across the Arab world? Is there a comparison to be drawn between these eruptions and the mass action we saw in the Wisconsin state capitol (which has also had its echos elsewhere? Too often the response to these upsurges has been a [...]
Austerity, butterflies, and the future
A prime preoccupation on this site has been the investigation, discussion, and movement toward theorization of the contemporary configuration of capitalism, its economic, political and ideological aspects. In the following essay Don explores the consequences for bourgeois forms of rule, of the transnational constitution of present-day capital and its movement toward an increasingly decentered global [...]
The crisis of the capitalist state and the crisis of the left
What are the parameters of the situation we face today? How serious? What sort of period are we in today: what time is it? What are our political needs? These are the sorts of questions — important and urgent — posed (although not in these words) by the following. Consider the ruling class responses in [...]
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