Culture and Ideas
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Review: A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics by Jürgen Habermas
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Habermas solutions concerning the protection of the political public sphere from fragmentation and exclusion dynamics in the digital age may not be sufficient to uphold its inclusivity and discursivity.
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The Colonial Hangover: How French Words Perpetuate a Continuity of Colonial Attitudes Against Algerians
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The long climb to expel divisions and resurrect equality starts with rooting out the discrimination embedded in one particular place: language.
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Politics of the Hostage
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Rather than clinging to the innocent or victimary subjectivity of the hostage, Israel and its supporters are implored to ‘undo’ the all-too comfortable sense of being unquestionably ‘at-home,’ and ‘dwell’ on the ‘moral dubiousness’ of what has been done.
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Valencian Road Signs
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In Valencia, language invokes politics, not just identity. Road signs are a part of this political story.
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How to Do Things with Swords, or the Performativity of Violence
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A Review of Lee Ann Fujii’s Book ‘Show Time’
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West Papua’s Shifting Signifiers: Across History of Colonialism and Nationalism in Indonesia
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A silent war of narratives and symbols rages within the shadowed forests and contested borders of West Papua.
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Cultural Hegemony and Social Media: Why We Need to Keep up with the Kardashians
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As more of our interactions shift online, Gramsci’s work provides a useful lens to understand how social media is employed by modern-day elites to manipulate the masses.
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Time in the Anthropocene
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The tempo of the Anthropocene is multiple, plural, and full of opportunities, both dangerous and salvific.
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Hegel and History
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The point of studying Hegel, and by extension the purpose of contextualising historical thinkers, should concern itself less with relating his circumstances to our own and more with identifying the discrepancies and continuities between different historical eras. The past was past, but it still weighs, in the words of Marx, ‘like a nightmare on the…
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Timelessness in Pre-Modern Politics
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A de-temporalized politics is, then, not only imaginable—it was, to some extent, once a reality. For the scholastic, a week was most certainly not a long time in politics—nor indeed was a year or a century. Only in the modern time regime, governed by the politics of the particular, can such an utterance be considered…