On Suzanne Lacy’s Between the Door and the Street
In spite of the good intentions, this work fails from both viewpoints: artistic and political. Artistic: that there is no...Read More
View ArticlePublic Shaming? On the NYC Teen Pregnancy Prevention Campaign
Unexpected or amusing experiences on the NYC subway are all but infrequent for those who travel every day, in jam-packed trains, from one corner to the other of the city. But, the biggest shock I have...
View ArticleOn the Heilbroner Center’s Manifesto
In our opinion, the document drafted by Julia Ott and Will Milberg for the new Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies should be the beginning of a debate among NSSR faculty about the...
View ArticleThe Capitalism of Affects
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...
View ArticleIs Solidarity Without Identity Possible?
The time I saw Charb in Paris was January 24, 2010, the day of the crowded commemoration of the French philosopher and activist Daniel Bensaïd at La Mutualité. During the speeches, Charb kept drawing...
View ArticleFortress Europe and a Mediterranean Cemetery for Migrants
In the night between April 18th and April 19th a boat filled with up to 950 migrants sank in the Mediterranean Sea, 70 miles north of Libya, while trying to reach the southern European border. This was...
View ArticleThe Greek Referendum: A New Battle of Marathon
Some commentators have compared the victory of the "Oxi" at the Greek referendum of July 5th to a Pyrrhic victory, implying that while the anti-austerity camp won this battle, it is doomed to lose the...
View ArticleThe Discontinuous Borders of the European Union
The powerful image of thousands of migrants marching together on the motorway between Budapest and Vienna, in the first week of September, is one of those images capable of symbolizing a turning point....
View ArticleOpen Letter of Support for Academics under Attack in Turkey
On January 16th, Turkish authorities arrested 27 academics ‘guilty’ of signing and supporting the call “We Will not Be a...Read More
View ArticleRefugee Crisis and European Shame
If we had to describe the European Union’s response to the current refugee crisis with a single word, that word would be “chaos.” If we could use two words, the second word would be “shame,” necessary...
View ArticleBeyond lean-in
The massive women’s marches of January 21st may mark the beginning of a new wave of militant feminist struggle. But...Read More
View ArticleI Will Not…
I WILL NOT defer to someone else’s definition of “strike.” I will stand in solidary with women from more than forty...Read More
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