Posts tagged: trump

From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump — and Beyond

What made Trump and Trumpism possible is a crisis of hegemony.
How Liberal Nonprofits Are Failing Those They're Supposed To Protect

Under the premise of social change, what many have come to rightfully recognize as the nonprofit industrial complex moves throughout the insides of genuine movements, commodifying, recycling, and taming anything too radical.
Thugs and Journalists

The repetition of words like “thug” and “gang” in media coverage of anti-fascist demonstrators suggests the degree to which mainstream journalists, and centrists more widely, understand challenges to the state in the same euphemisms with which they express their own deep anti-blackness.
U.S. Workers in the Late Neoliberal Era: The Pressures, the Changes, the Potential

Kim Moody on the state of organized labor, the potential for collaboration between unionized workers and grassroots social movements, and the prospects for the revival of the political strike after the logistics revolution and the election of Trump.
Our Streets

Heather Heyer was killed by a person and not a car, and yet the car, a Dodge Challenger, seems almost an extension of the person.
Trump Asked "Where does it stop?" That’s Actually a Good Question

The forty-fifth president essentially argued that, taken to its logical conclusion, an anti-slavery criteria would force us to take down monuments to many of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. Trump is, in effect, calling our bluff: are we willing to face the full extent of racist violence in America’s history?
Who’s Afraid of the White Working Class?: On Joan C. Williams’s White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America

After November 8, 2016, invoking the "white working class" suddenly seemed to explain everything.
An Interview with Judith Butler

Judith Butler's new book interweaves her two theories of performativity and precarity with the works of Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, and Emmanuel Levinas as a way to critically assess and speak to Tahrir Square, Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and other movements of dissent. In this interview, Stephanie Berbec asks her to consider her work in light of the recent events at Standing Rock and the 2016 presidential election.
Notes on Late Exterminism, the Trump Stage of Civilization

Trump’s election has raised the specter of nuclear war in a way unseen since the 1980s, the last time a global mass movement pushed back against the threat of nuclear catastrophe. One of the major intellectual forces behind that mass movement was E.P. Thompson. With the utopian hopes surrounding the ban treaty now meeting the actually existing dystopia of US policy, it is high time for an update to Thompson’s seminal concept of “exterminism.”
Time on the Clock of The World: Amin Husain on How We Handle Trump
[Video:] David Harvey and Evgeny Morozov on Trump, neoliberalism, infrastructure, and "the sharing economy"
Facing Trump, Building the Future