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Complete listing of all 262 posts from The New Polis.

Aristotle

Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, albeit not by a popular majority of votes, largely on his...

21 April 2019 thenewpolis

Achille Mbembe

[The Fourth World War is] a fractal war of all cells, all singularities, revolting in the form of antibodies. A...

15 April 2019 thenewpolis

G W F Hegel

With increasing interest in new forms of Marxism today, from the post-Marxism of Ernesto Laclau and Hardt and Negri, to...

08 April 2019 thenewpolis

Democracy

Definitions of “politics” and “the political” are legion in scholarship. At the extremities of the spectrum one...

27 March 2019 thenewpolis

Christchurch Shooting

By the time this article appears in print the press will have thoroughly milked every egregious as well as superficial...

19 March 2019 thenewpolis

Borderlands

If politics names the power relations regarding the polis, in their deliberative form, then ‘the political’ names the...

13 March 2019 Roger Green

Normies

In his 1934 essay “Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism,” Emmanuel Levinas evaluates the social and political...

07 March 2019 Roger Green

Anthropocentrism

The following is the final installment of a three-part article. Part one can be found by clicking here. Part two can be...

06 March 2019 Assitant Edtior

2008 Financial Crisis

The following is part two of a three-part article. Part one can be found by clicking here. The alienation from nature...

26 February 2019 Assitant Edtior

Anthropocentrism

The following is part one of a two-part article by Anne Fermaux. If we want to be at home on this earth, even at the...

19 February 2019 Assitant Edtior