THE NEW POLIS

CRITICAL THEORY | SOCIAL ANALYSIS | POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY

Blog

Complete listing of all 262 posts from The New Polis.

The Primordial Substitute Teacher – Neoliberalism, Racial Capitalism, And The Ideology Of “Students First”, Part 1 (Thomas Joyce)
Capitalism
The Primordial Substitute Teacher – Neoliberalism, Racial Capitalism, And The Ideology Of “Students First”, Part 1 (Thomas Joyce)

The following is the first of a three-part series. Teachers in Title I urban schools inhabit a unique place in society...

17 December 2020 thenewpolis
Another Better “Now” – Yanis Varoufakis’ Metaphysics Of Morals (Paul Tyson)
Francis Bacon
Another Better “Now” – Yanis Varoufakis’ Metaphysics Of Morals (Paul Tyson)

The year 1627 saw the publication of short and incomplete work of fiction by Francis Bacon in which he imagined a...

09 December 2020 thenewpolis
Rhetorical Erasure, Indian Slavery, And The Doctrine Of Discovery, Part 1 (Roger Green)
American Indians
Rhetorical Erasure, Indian Slavery, And The Doctrine Of Discovery, Part 1 (Roger Green)

The following is the first of a multi-part series. By far, public discourse in the United States is most frequently...

30 November 2020 Roger Green
Critical Conversations – American Indian Worldview And The Twinned Cosmos Of Indigenous America (Announcement)
American Indians
Critical Conversations – American Indian Worldview And The Twinned Cosmos Of Indigenous America (Announcement)

Participants are invited to join us live in the fifth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars)...

23 November 2020 Roger Green
The Politics Of Pause, Struggling Over Speed For Better Futures (Critical Conversations 3)
Accelrationism
The Politics Of Pause, Struggling Over Speed For Better Futures (Critical Conversations 3)

The following is the video and transcript of the third “Critical Conversation”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance...

16 November 2020 thenewpolis
An Introduction And Call For Submissions To The New Polis On The Doctrine of Discovery (Roger Green)
Call For Contributions
An Introduction And Call For Submissions To The New Polis On The Doctrine of Discovery (Roger Green)

The New Polis*, in conjunction with other Whitestone Publications, is currently at work on a larger project for the year...

09 November 2020 Roger Green
Discovery, St. Junípero, Lewis and Clark (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe / Osage Nation)
Doctrine of Discovery
Discovery, St. Junípero, Lewis and Clark (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe / Osage Nation)

Out of respect for Dr Tinker’s writing style, the editor has chosen to keep the author’s footnotesintact. Readers should...

03 November 2020 Roger Green
Critical Conversations – 2020 And The Catastrophe Of The Global Neoliberal Order (Announcement)
Carl Raschke
Critical Conversations – 2020 And The Catastrophe Of The Global Neoliberal Order (Announcement)

Participants are invited to join us live in the fourth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars)...

02 November 2020 thenewpolis
Gnosticism And The Contemporary Production Of Race (Jacob Vangeest)
Achille Mbembe
Gnosticism And The Contemporary Production Of Race (Jacob Vangeest)

“Blackness is not only that which relates to the constitutive outside of any social bond—whether that outside be...

26 October 2020 thenewpolis
Restoring The “Common Good” – Or Simply Hijacking It For The Educated Elites? (Carl Raschke)
Amy Coney Barrett
Restoring The “Common Good” – Or Simply Hijacking It For The Educated Elites? (Carl Raschke)

America is fracturing. America is unravelling. Such a proposition, controversial four years ago, seems almost a truism...

19 October 2020 thenewpolis