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Video: Susan Buck-Morss — Global Civil War: Solidarity by Proxy

In the twenty-first century any world war is a civil war, and any civil war affects the world. Does this mean the end of the Age of Revolutions, or a whole new understanding of what revolution entails?

Verso Books25 September 2017

Video: Susan Buck-Morss — Global Civil War: Solidarity by Proxy

In April, Susan Buck-Morss presented a talk sponsored by the Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Research Group at the London School of Economics. Under the heading "Global Civil War: Solidarity by Proxy," Buck-Morss poses the question: "In the twenty-first century any world war is a civil war, and any civil war affects the world. Does this mean the end of the Age of Revolutions, or a whole new understanding of what revolution entails?"

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Thinking Past Terror
Renowned critical theorist Susan Buck-Morss argues convincingly that a global public needs to think past the twin insanities of terrorism and counter-terrorism in order to dismantle regressive inte...
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