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Complete listing of all 262 posts from The New Polis.

Fascism

The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Privilege Production of...

15 June 2020 thenewpolis

Dearing Report

“The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.” – Karl Marx “the late...

09 June 2020 thenewpolis

Classic Liberalism

After the Great War, the Great Depression, and the Holocaust, many thinkers tried to figure out what was wrong with the...

06 June 2020 thenewpolis

Antonio Negri

This article is republished from the author’s private blog at thoughtsoutofseason.net “We want justice, we want...

02 June 2020 thenewpolis

Covid 19

In this piece, I want to explore the distinction between the “state of exception” and the “disaster.” In doing so, I am...

27 May 2020 Roger Green

Big Brother

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Surveillance in a Post 9/11 World It is...

19 May 2020 thenewpolis

David Shumway

The following is the first of a two-part series. “The social technologies we see in use today are fundamentally...

12 May 2020 thenewpolis

Barbarism

“There is no return to normal, the new ‘normal’ will have to be constructed on the ruins of our old lives, or we will...

04 May 2020 thenewpolis

Bolsonaro

A recent article in The New York Times by anthropologist Bruce Alpert relays the story of a fifteen-year-old Yanomami...

28 April 2020 Roger Green

Pandemia

The Great Global Covid-19 Pandemic has functioned in recent weeks as a gigantic, media-tinged Rorschacht ink blot upon...

20 April 2020 thenewpolis