The New Thesis Eleven

The New Thesis Eleven

Domination rests to such a degree on the society/nature duality that no liberation struggle will ever succeed unless that duality is overcome. Descartes Remix (CC) In 1845, shortly after he published the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, Karl Marx wrote...
Safe Spaces for Colonial Apologists

Safe Spaces for Colonial Apologists

The recent controversies about Oxford Professor Nigel Biggar’s “Ethics and Empire” project and UK Universities Minister Jo Johnson’s attack on “safe space culture” have both been defended on freedom of speech grounds. However, they are better understood as retrenching...
Martti Koskenniemi: Indeterminacy

Martti Koskenniemi: Indeterminacy

Key Concept In From Apology to Utopia (1989), the Finnish jurist and former diplomat Martti Koskenniemi presents his thesis on international law’s fundamental indeterminacy. This would come to epitomize a critical moment in international law. Rather than repeat...
Trump’s Upside Down

Trump’s Upside Down

We have not lately – not until Trump’s election – seen or heard the dog whistle politics of racism, sexism, Nativism, and homophobia so eagerly thrust aside by a Presidential candidate and, with such glee: traded for openly racist invective, division, misogyny,...
Is Fascism Making a Comeback? (Part II)

Is Fascism Making a Comeback? (Part II)

Continuing the reposted series from State of Nature, the question is whether Fascism is making a comeback? Laurence Davis Seventy-two years after the end of World War II, the spectre of fascism is again haunting the globe. The important questions we should be asking...