In this second interview of the "Critique of the School in Post-ā68 French Thought" series, Roger Establet details his experience as a member of the Althusserian research group on "the school" and, in particular, Pierre Bourdieu's influence on their thinking.
Raina Lipsitz looks to Miami for lessons from a radical Black-led abolitionist organization.
Robert Bevan traces the construction of racially and ethnically segregated urban neighbourhoods.
Christian Baudelot founded a research group on "the school" with other students of Louis Althusser in the wake of 1968's events. In this interview, he details the group's ambitions and its trajectory.
A statement in support of the protests in Iran, and in solidarity with political prisoners, from a group of Iranian activists in exile and former political prisoners
Michel Valensi, director of Editions de l'Ć©clat, talks political publishing, the evolution of book production with the rise of the internet, and what it means to be a political publisher.
Climate fascism is percolating through the cracks of global capitalist crisis. The Zetkin Collective's foreword to the forthcoming Spanish-language edition of White Skin, Black Fuel offers a concise analysis of the current juncture and outlines what must be done to resist the forward march of climate fascism.
We live, as we're constantly reminded, in uncertain times. But what does uncertainty actually entail? And do some certainties bolster the unjust system in which we live? And could the late philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein help us find a way to think through certainty and uncertainty politically?
"The moment of Fukuyama had arrived. There seemed to be an undeniable internal relationship between capitalism and democracy.
How did the left react?"
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"The representative, especially of a subordinate group, always stands in an ambiguous position. She tries to speak on behalf of the groupās interests. This raises the whole well-chewed complex of arguments about how the principal (the group) can control its agent (the representative). But there is a more basic problem that needs addressing. This is the interest that the agent has in the preservation of the group as it positively exists."
If the celebrated existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre is remembered today it is likely to be for his novels and fiction, or for his post-war classic Being and Nothingness. Less often discussed is his groundbreaking work of Marxist philosophy, Critique of Dialectical Reason, and the philosophy of praxis he develops in it. But, as Lorenzo Buti argues, it is in this work that his true political power lies.