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Hysteria, or hope?

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 29, 2017 | 20 Comments »

Based on its title and on the snippets I saw being quoted, I fully expected to dislike Lee Jones’ article “Charlottesville and the Politics of Left Hysteria,” posted a few days ago at The Current Moment. Instead, I’ve found it nuanced, cogent, and well worth reading. I myself have tried to broach this topic of the […]

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May Day thoughts: on labor & livelihood

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 1, 2017 | 4 Comments »

May Day (Beltane, Walpurga’s Day, et al.) is a good time for reflecting on politics, ecology, and possibility. The following can be considered part of a series on this blog. When neoliberalism is understood as the alliance between economic liberalization and social liberalization — that is, between those who would “liberate” capitalist markets (who sometimes get called fiscal […]

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The Occupation

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on October 19, 2011 | 5 Comments »

The metaphor of “occupation” strikes me as a provocative one not only for what the activists in Manhattan and elsewhere are doing, but for what they are struggling against. Some, and perhaps many, of these are people without traditional “occupations,” so they are occupying themselves by re-occupying the public spaces that have been occupied for […]

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trusting Obama or not

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

With protests gearing up today to push the Obama administration away from its current timidity with its economic policies (see A New Way Forward and Democracy Now’s broadcast on it), it seems apropos to ask whether and to what extent the Obama administration should be trusted by progressives. Open Left, one of the better progressive […]

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