Nichols explores the idea of recursive dispossession, which Nichols explains as the situation where “new proprietary relations are generated but under structural conditions that demand their simultaneous negation.”

One of these movements, Socialist Lebanon, took root in the 1960s, and much Arab political thought has developed in its shadow ever since.,,

Han analyzes the nexus of death and digital culture in the contemporary moment in the context of recent developments in social, cultural and political theory....

How should we understand the pervasiveness – and virulence – of anti-Black violence in the United State?

Yam examines how three transnational groups—mainland Chinese maternal tourists, Southeast Asian migrant domestic workers, and South Asian permanent residents—engage with the existing citizenry and gain recognition through circulating personal narratives....

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

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According to Viet Thanh Nguyen, all wars are fought twice: first on the field of battle, and then in the struggles over memory...

Discenna paints a compelling picture of “the denial of academic labor” happening across public and private institutions...

Lachmann argues that while imperial expansion can deliver more resources to their centers, they can also create dynamics of elite conflict...

Kurd’s rich case study illustrates how certain authoritarian strategies used by the PA increased societal polarizing...

In recent years, questions around the nature of ​truth ​and ​facts have reentered public debate...

Did Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency in 2016 because he was a master of character work – able to sum up opponents in pithy epithets that encourage the public to see them as weak or immoral?

Muslims living in locations like Australia, Europe, or North America exist within a context dominated by white racial norms...

In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, already happened...

What does it mean to be a political subject?

Chodorow advocates for a return to an interest in the social and social sciences in psychoanalytic thinking...

Caputo’s conversation partners in this volume include Lyotard, Derrida, and Hegel, but also earlier versions of himself:...

How does technology shape music?

Johnston looks at three recent French theorists, Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillasoux, arguing that all three ultimately fail to maintain a consistent atheism...

How should we understand our cities?

Chhabria argues that cities are not naturally occurring spaces or innocent administrative categories marked by lines on a map: instead they are spaced produced by constant labors of inclusion and exclusion which serve to keep capital flowing while stigmatizing the laboring poor...

Manus argues that Trump and other similar figures and movements represent a new form of conservatism, one with a long history of development, and formed as a response to various social dynamics...

Zevin helps us see what he calls “really existing liberalism”––that is, a liberalism that rooted for empire, embraced finance, and has always wielded an ambivalence towards democracy...