Por Cláudio R. Duarte: 1- Viver na sociedade moderna é estar sujeito a inúmeras ordens coercitivas. Ordens econômicas, políticas, sociais, morais, psicológicas. Ordens gerais que comandam o fazer, o viver, o agir, o pensar e até o sentir e o sonhar. A primeira dessas coerções é o trabalho, o trabalho em abstrato, para fins de [...]
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Inferno Precário
January 31, 2012
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Por Ruy Braga: “Ao invés de ficar declarando que a desocupação do Pinheirinho foi uma ‘ barbárie’, a única coisa realmente séria que a presidenta Dilma Rousseff poderia fazer seria usar o Ministério das Cidades para desapropriar a área e devolvê-la aos moradores do bairro.” – No exato momento em que as crises europeia e [...]
Read more Misusing the City Statute in São Paulo
January 27, 2012
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By Patricia Rodrigues Samora*: The City Statute and subsequent São Paolo Master Plan were seen as victories for the housing movement, but the city and state governments of São Paulo, and to a certain extent the federal government, seem to have chosen another way to build the future of our cities. This is a future [...]
Read more Capital is the Real of our lives
August 26, 2011
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By Slavoj Žižek: When we were fighting AIDS, hunger, water shortages, global warming, and so on, there always seemed to be time to reflect, to postpone decisions (recall how the main conclusion of the last meeting of world leaders in Bali, hailed as a success, was that they would meet again in two years to [...]
Read more Brazil’s disappearing favelas
July 14, 2011
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By Dave Zirin: Infrastructure demanded by the sporting world’s most powerful corporate interests render families homeless in Brazil. In Chile, it was called the The Brick. It was the many-thousand page economic manifesto of Dictator Augusto Pinochet, written by “the Chicago Boys” – Chilean exchange students from the University of Chicago. Disciples of the university’s [...]
Read more Minimum Feasible Participation: The Politics of ‘Rationality’
July 13, 2011
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By Jamie Stern-Weiner: In early twentieth century America many thinkers perceived and reacted to a shift towards judgement by experts, an apparent realisation of an influential tradition in political thought that has conceived of political judgement as a technical skill. Some, like Walter Lippmann, championed “dependence on those who know” as a necessary adaptation to [...]
Read more Planning Displacement: The Real Legacy of Major Sporting Events
May 4, 2011
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By Libby Porter and others: [excerpt] (…) In the official narrative ordinary citizens are, quite literally, invisible and Porter explains how this comes about. First, state planners deal in abstractions. This is a world of legacy claims, eminent domain and Compulsory Purchase Inquiries, where displacements are framed as “disruptions” in planning applications. These stories remind [...]
Read more The Centrality of the State in Neoliberal Times: Gramsci and beyond
March 27, 2011
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By Peter Mayo: One of the greatest myths being propagated in this contemporary neoliberal scenario is that the nation state is no longer the main force in this period characterized by the intensification of globalization. Deregulation was brought in by governments to expedite the process where various forms of provision, private and formerly public, were [...]
Read more Metropolis
March 17, 2011
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By Giorgio Agamben: Many years ago I was having a conversation with Guy (Debord) which I believed to be about political philosophy, until at some point Guy interrupted me and said: ‘Look, I am not a philosopher, I am a strategist’. This statement struck me because I used to see him as a philosopher as [...]
Read more THE ANTI-OLYMPICS (what happened in Vancouver)
February 8, 2011
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By Jules Boykoff: Walking along east Hastings Street in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver one crisp January morning in 2010, I came across a perplexing set of white panels on the outer flank of the refurbished Woodward’s building. The panels featured an explosion of repudiation: stark, black-lettered phrases like ‘hell no’, ‘i said no’, ‘no [...]
Read more Le gouvernement de l’insécurité
July 8, 2010
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Entretien avec Andrea Cortellessa, Par Giorgio Agamben: Dans une interview accordée à La Repubblica , Giuliano Amato, le ministre de l’intérieur italien et promoteur d’une « initiative pour la sécurité », a déclaré que, sur le thème de la sécurité, il n’est pas besoin de faire intervenir la « philosophie » parce que « tout [...]
Read more Gli ultimi saranno gli ultimi
June 14, 2010
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Nuove (e vecchie) logiche securitarie. A partire dall’inchiesta sul sistema degli Ospedali Psichiatrici Giudiziari di Dario Stefano Dell’Aquila by Paolo Graziano Prima di tutto vennero a prendere gli zingari e fui contento, perché rubacchiavano. Poi vennero a prendere gli ebrei e stetti zitto, perché mi stavano antipatici. Poi vennero a prendere gli omosessuali, e fui [...]
Read more Mechanisms of Power in the Age of Terrorism
May 19, 2010
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by Carl E. Kandutsch (…) Do You Feel Safe? Although American and European politicians still like to talk about “winning” the War on Terror [4], they rarely speak of “peace,” which seems an increasingly anachronistic notion. Instead, the question addressed to the American public around election time is: “Do you feel safe?” The question to [...]
Read more Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism
April 29, 2010
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Review of Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk (eds) (2007) Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism. New York: The New Press. Book Review by Jacklyn Cock Original post: http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/ In much of the world the behavior of the political elite would seem to indicate an agreement with the words of Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping: ‘To get rich is glorious’. [...]
Read more India’s Trail of Tears
February 26, 2010
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To justify a land grab, Delhi has a new enemy—the Maoists. By Arundhati Roy The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa. The hills watched over the Kondh. The Kondh watched over the hills and worshipped [...]
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- Crisis, Critique and the 6 Belina, Bernd
- Grasping a Historical Moment: Western Societal Challenges, Self-referential Academic Knowledge Production, and Renewed Political Commitment Wetzstein, Steffen
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Cultural Anthropology
- EDITORS’ NOTE ANNE ALLISON, CHARLES PIOT
- MAGIC WITH A MESSAGE: The Poetics of Christian Conjuring GRAHAM M. JONES
- PENTECOSTAL BODY LOGICS: Cultivating a Modern Sensorium JOSH BRAHINSKY
