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Left And Right Is Really Up And Down (Wendy Felese)
Albert White Hat
Left And Right Is Really Up And Down (Wendy Felese)

Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ condescending dismissal of congressional representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (during an...

17 February 2019 Roger Green
Meditations On Aesthetics In The Wake Of The 2019 State Of The Union Address (Roger K. Green)
Aesthetics
Meditations On Aesthetics In The Wake Of The 2019 State Of The Union Address (Roger K. Green)

It is easy to debate the usefulness of commenting on the 2019 State of the Union Address. In a media sphere mostly...

12 February 2019 Roger Green
“Democracy Dies By Distinction” – Neoliberalism, Intersectionality, And The Failed Project That Was The Citizens Party (Carl Raschke)
Citizens Party
“Democracy Dies By Distinction” – Neoliberalism, Intersectionality, And The Failed Project That Was The Citizens Party (Carl Raschke)

There was a moment in a universe long, long ago and far, far away – specifically, in February, 1980 when I and my now...

05 February 2019 thenewpolis
The Equisapien Encounter – Reading Enrique Dussel In Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You”, Part 2 (Conor Ramón Rasmusen)
Boots Riley
The Equisapien Encounter – Reading Enrique Dussel In Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You”, Part 2 (Conor Ramón Rasmusen)

The following is the second piece in a two-part installment. The first can be found here. This article contains spoilers...

30 January 2019 Assitant Edtior
“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)
American Indians
“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)

The New Polis is honored to present Dr. Tinker’s follow-up piece to “Redskin, Tanned Hide: A Book of Christian History...

21 January 2019 Roger Green
The Equisapien Encounter – Reading Enrique Dussel In Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You”, Part 1 (Conor Ramón Rasmusen)
Boots Riley
The Equisapien Encounter – Reading Enrique Dussel In Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You”, Part 1 (Conor Ramón Rasmusen)

The following is the first of a two-part installment. This article contains spoilers for the film Sorry to Bother You....

17 January 2019 Assitant Edtior
The Yellow Vest Uprising – From Berlin To Paris A Spirit Of “Post-Capitalism” May Be Aborning (Carl Raschke)
Berlin
The Yellow Vest Uprising – From Berlin To Paris A Spirit Of “Post-Capitalism” May Be Aborning (Carl Raschke)

It is slightly more than an hour, mostly by autobahn, from the glitzy, high-end tourist neighborhood on the west side of...

08 January 2019 thenewpolis
Text, Body, and the Ethics of Raymond Federman’s Spectator (Roger Green)
Art
Text, Body, and the Ethics of Raymond Federman’s Spectator (Roger Green)

In this post, I argue that postmodern writer, Raymond Federman’s reluctant commitment to text, his necessity to return...

22 December 2018 Roger Green
Today’s Politics Bear Strange Resemblance To The 1850s (Martin Katchen)
Abolitionism
Today’s Politics Bear Strange Resemblance To The 1850s (Martin Katchen)

The following article is republished from the former Political Theology Today. Observers looking for historic parallels...

17 December 2018 thenewpolis
The Pataphysics of Pharmakoi (Roger Green)
Alfred Jarry
The Pataphysics of Pharmakoi (Roger Green)

Yesterday, an article by Josh Katz and Margot Sanger-Katz in The New York Times drew attention once again to an opioid...

30 November 2018 Roger Green