1. Back in the Eighties and Nineties, Marxist intellectuals, shaken by the Gulag revelations and the collapse of the communist states, started welcoming human rights. Claude Lefort, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Etienne Balibar and Jacques Rancière1Claude Lefort, The...
Admin: We think it is important to repost this text from our early days (originally posted in March 2009). The term ‘Lemon Socialism’ powerfully conveys the sense of socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. The first decade of the 21st century...
Inaugural lecture, 24/11/2010 “Welcome to the University for Strategic Optimism, a university based on the principal of free and open education, a return of politics to the public, and the politicisation of public space. As our university buildings are being boarded...
So I put my hands up The flag high! The ranks tightly closed! SA march with bold, firm steps. They’re playing my song, Comrades shot by the Red Front and reactionaries March in spirit in our ranks. And the butterflies fly away Clear the streets for the brown...
This paper explores – briefly – four ideas: the concept of the ‘turn to emotions’, the notion of a cannibal theory, legal surrealism and the subaltern perspective on human rights. How we are to think and feel human rights today? This question is situated in a specific...
