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The Cultural Contradictions Of “Democratic Socialism” (Carl Raschke)
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
The Cultural Contradictions Of “Democratic Socialism” (Carl Raschke)

Ever since Bernie Sanders’ bid for the Presidential nomination in 2016, and more recently with the surprise primary...

03 August 2018 thenewpolis
Walter Benjamin’s Notes On Various Topics, Part 2
Death
Walter Benjamin’s Notes On Various Topics, Part 2

Translated by Rachel Thomas. Edited by Carl Raschke. The following is the second part of a series of translated...

30 July 2018 thenewpolis
The Pharmakon and Ayahuasca Globalization (Roger Green)
Alexander Weheliye
The Pharmakon and Ayahuasca Globalization (Roger Green)

Jacques Derrida theorized in an interview on “The Rhetoric of Drugs”: The production and distribution of drugs are, of...

23 July 2018 Roger Green
Expanding the Rhetorical, Genealogical, and New Materialist Implications of Joshua Ramey’s The Politics of Divination (Joshua Hanan)
Chrematistics
Expanding the Rhetorical, Genealogical, and New Materialist Implications of Joshua Ramey’s The Politics of Divination (Joshua Hanan)

The following is part of a series of responses to Joshua Ramey’s book, Politics of Divination. You can read our...

16 July 2018 Roger Green
The Problem With “Christian” Political Theology – It’s Greek, Not Christian (Jonathan Cole)
Bible
The Problem With “Christian” Political Theology – It’s Greek, Not Christian (Jonathan Cole)

Christian political theology has a problem, which for want of imagination I dub its “Greek problem.” Michael Walzer...

11 July 2018 thenewpolis
Call For Submissions – Drugs And Capitalism
Addction Studies
Call For Submissions – Drugs And Capitalism

Drugs and spices have long been at the center of global trade, but the concept of “drug” in its modern, Western sense is...

03 July 2018 Roger Green
The Missed Encounter Between Critical Theory And American Pragmatism (Daniel Tutt)
American Philosophy
The Missed Encounter Between Critical Theory And American Pragmatism (Daniel Tutt)

The German Frankfurt School theorist and philosopher Max Horkheimer’s Eclipse of Reason (1947) presents one of the most...

28 June 2018 thenewpolis
Performative Film Practices In Tamil Politics, Part 2 (Giulia Battaglia)
C N Annadurai
Performative Film Practices In Tamil Politics, Part 2 (Giulia Battaglia)

The following article is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment appears here. Sundararaj...

25 June 2018 thenewpolis
On Enduring Borders And The Erasure Of Indigeneity, Part 3 (Roger Green)
Colonialism
On Enduring Borders And The Erasure Of Indigeneity, Part 3 (Roger Green)

The following is the third and final installment of Roger Green’s ongoing article. The first installment can be found...

18 June 2018 Roger Green
On Marx, Stiegler, And The Neoliberal ‘Commodity’ – Further Conversation With Joshua Ramey (Carl Raschke)
Bernard Stiegler
On Marx, Stiegler, And The Neoliberal ‘Commodity’ – Further Conversation With Joshua Ramey (Carl Raschke)

This article is a follow-up to the interview conducted by New Polis general editor Roger Green with Joshua Ramey on...

14 June 2018 thenewpolis