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Complete listing of all 262 posts from The New Polis.


CoroNations – Notes From The Quarantine (John Panteleimon Manoussakis )
Albert Camus
CoroNations – Notes From The Quarantine (John Panteleimon Manoussakis )

Oedipal Disease A plague has befallen the city. It is the nature of any sickness to reveal what lies hidden under one’s...

10 April 2020 thenewpolis
Divine Judgement And The Ethics Of Authenticity -Unsettling Thoughts On The Covid-19 Virus (Paul Tyson)
Charles Taylor
Divine Judgement And The Ethics Of Authenticity -Unsettling Thoughts On The Covid-19 Virus (Paul Tyson)

The very idea of divine judgement expressed in natural disasters seems outdated and, at the least, unpleasant to us....

04 April 2020 thenewpolis
The Angel Of History And The Ruins Of Paris – Walter Benjamin In France, Part 3 (Emma Fiedler)
Auguste Blanqui
The Angel Of History And The Ruins Of Paris – Walter Benjamin In France, Part 3 (Emma Fiedler)

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. A previous version of...

24 March 2020 thenewpolis
Anne Waldman’s A Dark Flower For The End Times (Roger Green)
Adam Baumeister
Anne Waldman’s A Dark Flower For The End Times (Roger Green)

In times of crisis, we turn to art. Today, Meep Records in Denver has released A Dark Flower For The End Times. This...

17 March 2020 Roger Green
The Angel Of History And The Ruins Of Paris – Walter Benjamin In France, Part 2 (Emma Fiedler)
Arcades Project
The Angel Of History And The Ruins Of Paris – Walter Benjamin In France, Part 2 (Emma Fiedler)

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. A previous version of this article...

12 March 2020 thenewpolis
The Angel Of History And The Ruins Of Paris – Walter Benjamin In France, Part 1 (Emma Fiedler)
Arcades Project
The Angel Of History And The Ruins Of Paris – Walter Benjamin In France, Part 1 (Emma Fiedler)

The following is the first of a three-part series. A previous version of this article provided an incorrect name and bio...

05 March 2020 thenewpolis
Radical Politics And “The Myth Of The State” (Carl Raschke)
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Radical Politics And “The Myth Of The State” (Carl Raschke)

Approximately 75 years ago, as Soviet and Allied armies were converging from opposite directions to crush the demonic...

25 February 2020 thenewpolis
Ayahuasca and Transnational Religious Poetics (Roger Green)
Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca and Transnational Religious Poetics (Roger Green)

This conference script was partially delivered at the Telos-Paul Piccone Conference in New York, February 15-16, 2020....

18 February 2020 Roger Green
Impeachment, Hyperpartisanship, And “The Democratic Paradox” (Carl Raschke)
Democratic Paradox
Impeachment, Hyperpartisanship, And “The Democratic Paradox” (Carl Raschke)

The impeachment circus has now finished playing to Washington town after six months, all the time taxing its motley...

06 February 2020 thenewpolis
100 Seconds To Doomsday, Or A Vaccination Against “Wokeness” (Patrick Soch)
Alexander the Great
100 Seconds To Doomsday, Or A Vaccination Against “Wokeness” (Patrick Soch)

As Raidió Teilifís Éireann reported on January 23, 2020, the Doomsday Clock was moved to 100 seconds until midnight. The...

03 February 2020 Roger Green