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On The Philosophical Backdrop Of “Alternative Facts” And “Fake News”, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)
Alternative Facts
On The Philosophical Backdrop Of “Alternative Facts” And “Fake News”, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)

The following is the first installment of a two-part series. The second installment can be found here. This article was...

23 September 2019 thenewpolis
The Technological Transformation Of The Public Square (Joshua Ramos)
Alt Right
The Technological Transformation Of The Public Square (Joshua Ramos)

We are witnessing the political and cultural transformation of the global public square through internet information...

15 September 2019 thenewpolis
The Dialectic Of Enlightenment From A Postsecular Lens, Part 4 (Roger Green)
Anti Semitism
The Dialectic Of Enlightenment From A Postsecular Lens, Part 4 (Roger Green)

I have been working through a reading of Max Horkheimer and Thedor Adorno’s classic work of Critical Theory, Dialectic...

10 September 2019 Roger Green
Neoliberalism And The Cultural Politics Of Shame (Samantha Pinson Wrisley)
Jean Paul Sartre
Neoliberalism And The Cultural Politics Of Shame (Samantha Pinson Wrisley)

Shame as an affect, an emotion, or a feeling serves a critical purpose in the construction and maintenance of hegemonic...

03 September 2019 thenewpolis
The Dialectic Of Enlightenment From A Postsecular Lens, Part 3 (Roger Green)
David Scott
The Dialectic Of Enlightenment From A Postsecular Lens, Part 3 (Roger Green)

In my previous post, I took a turn from direct analysis of Dialectic of Enlightenment to engage with David Scott’s...

26 August 2019 Roger Green
Althusser And Baudelaire: Flânerial And Utopian Theory (Jonathan Fardy)
Althusser
Althusser And Baudelaire: Flânerial And Utopian Theory (Jonathan Fardy)

This essay sprang from an effort to understand one of the more obscure passages in Louis Althusser’s contribution to...

20 August 2019 Roger Green
Response To Tink Tinker’s “Osage Kettle Carriers” (Alistair Bane)
American Indians
Response To Tink Tinker’s “Osage Kettle Carriers” (Alistair Bane)

The following is a response to Tink Tinker’s “Osage Kettle Carriers – Marmitons, Scullery Boys, And Gender Choices,”...

01 August 2019 Roger Green
Osage Kettle Carriers – Marmitons, Scullery Boys, Deviants And Gender Choices (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe / Osage Nation)
Berdache
Osage Kettle Carriers – Marmitons, Scullery Boys, Deviants And Gender Choices (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe / Osage Nation)

Due to the historical sourcing and cultural explanations necessary to Dr. Tinker’s scholarship, the editors of The New...

24 July 2019 Roger Green
Politics And Its Double – Deleuze And Political Ontology, Part 2 (Borna Radnik)
Carl Schmitt
Politics And Its Double – Deleuze And Political Ontology, Part 2 (Borna Radnik)

The following is the second of a four-part series. The first can be found here. Politics and the Political There is...

15 July 2019 thenewpolis
The Dialectic Of Enlightenment From A Postsecular Lens, Part 2 (Roger Green)
Criticism
The Dialectic Of Enlightenment From A Postsecular Lens, Part 2 (Roger Green)

I ended my first post in this series considering David Scott’s description of the tragic disposition as an obligated...

07 July 2019 Roger Green