by Vince Carducci read original post at publicseminar A review essay on A. J. Blaime’s The Arsenal of Democracy September 25th, 2014 | No responses These days people generally think of Detroit — with its vast expanses of abandoned real estate that have given rise to the photographic genre known as ruins porn — as the place where modernity went
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The Capitalism of Affects
by Cinzia Arruzza read original post at publicseminar In her groundbreaking book about emotional labor, The Managed Heart, Arlie Russell Hochshild suggests that emotions are not simply stored in us waiting to be expressed: they are also produced and managed. The notion and practice of affects management, both privately and socially, are not specific to capitalism. Hellenistic
The Plight of Greek Higher Education
by Panagiotis Sotiris read original post at publicseminar Greek higher education has been, for the past four years, under a double attack, both by crippling austerity-induced budget cuts and by an attempt to accelerate the imposition of aggressively neoliberal reforms towards an entrepreneurial model of higher education. To understand the importance of these processes, we must
The Politics of the Sharing Economy
by Trebor Scholz read original post at publicseminar If you’ve heard about companies like Airbnb, Zipcar, Skype, Uber, Getaround, and Lyft, and you know a bit about crypto-currencies, you get the picture. The “sharing economy” is just as exhilarating and vexing as the Web 2.0 meme was nine years ago. I am all there with Arun Sundararajan, professor at Stern School of Business
Guy Standing: A Precariat Charter
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm 80 Fifth Ave., room 529, New York, NY 10011 Guy Standing’s immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. A Precariat Charter discusses how rights – political, civil, social and economic – have been denied to the
Edward Baptist: The Half Has Never Been Told
Edward Baptist – The Half Has Never Been Told: U.S. Slavery and Nineteenth Century Capitalism Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm 80 Fifth Avenue, 802 New York, NY 10003 The New School’s History Department presents Edward E. Baptist. Baptist teaches at Cornell University, where he is an associate professor of history and
Julia Ott on Podcast: “Who Makes Cents”
New School Professor Julia Ott was a recent guest on the podcast, “Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast.” Hosted by David Stein and Betsy Beasley, and with support from programs at the University of Southern California and Yale University, the podcast can be heard online here.
Chiara Bottici’s Book Published: “Imaginal Politics”
Columbia University Press has recently published New School Professor Chiara Bottici’s book, “Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary.” Part of the New Directions in Critical Theory Series, the book, which can be found here, offers “a new, systematic understanding of the imaginal and its nexus with the political” by bringing “fresh perspective to the formation of political
Julia Ott Book Discussion: Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century”
New School Professor Julia recently contributed to a book conversation hosted by the Institute for Public Knowledge entitled, “A Discussion with Thomas Piketty about Capital in the 21st Century.” Taking place at NYU’s Courant Institute and including Thomas Piketty, David Stasavage, and Frédéric Viguier, the discussion is now available to view online here.
Janet Roitman’s Book Published: “Anti-Crisis”
Duke University Press has recently published New School Professor Janet Roitman’s book, “Anti-Crisis.” The book, which can be found here, “steps back from the cycle of crisis production to ask not just why we declare so many crises but also what sort of analytical work the concept of crisis enables,” using “responses to the so-called subprime mortgage