... . www.occupystudentdebtcampaign.org . Strike Debt . 2012 . Welcome page . www.strikedebt.org . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Occupy, Debt, and the Wages of the Future: A Response to Guy Standing Andrew Ross...

...Guy Standing Progressive politics has always been about the struggle to reduce social inequities and inequalities. What takes priority depends on the type of society we live in. Today people in rich countries live in societies that are tertiary, not industrial, in that what they do is largely...

..., of which environmentalism is as much a part as the war on terror. If anything, the politics of fear can renew itself by shedding its association with the discredited war on terror and by attaching itself to the seemingly wholesome and pacific environmentalism standing in the wings. What environmentalism...

... authenticated by noise and psychedelic incommensurability. “World Music 2.0” conjoins the open source ethics of online networks with long-standing countercultural networks of circulation. Media redistributors resist hegemonic frameworks of intellectual property and cultural representation by conjuring...

...Brett Ommen As visual images increasingly cover the façade of social space and public life, the utility of these surfaces-of-display must be examined beyond displayed content. The preponderance of surfaces says something about the publics that stand before the invitation of visual communication...

... through Urdu poetry is one that is concerned not with the state, but with the constitution of the self through a network of thick relations to locality. The vision articulated by this alternate political theology — which draws on both long-standing Indo-Islamic traditions and the lived experience...

...Colin Jerolmack; Nina Berman This photo-essay examines how the leasing of private and public land for shale gas extraction (“fracking”) in Pennsylvania has initiated a “tragedy of the commons” in historically communal locales, degrading common-pool resources and weakening long-standing norms...

.... The sun, overpowering the thick foliage, glides over a fallen pillar, and then on to a moonstone, exquisitely carved . with nimble fingers trained over meticulous centuries. The dust rises in the agitated wind; I stand in the tattered shade...

... Standing, who recently published a remarkable book about the rise of the global precariat, calls for a new politics to address the inequality over control of time. “Throughout history,” he writes, “class struggle has been about the redistribution of the assets that are vital to the good life...

... and staged poses. There are also photographs from our visits to see Allen. In most of these, he stands in the center and we huddle around, hugging him as tightly as we can. In the first few years of Allen’s incarceration, I could not look at these pictures that arrived tucked behind his letters. I...

... ends up spawning a dense web of limits to legislative and executive action by way of the entrenched charters that have become an important feature of con- temporary government. The presumption of equality, implicit in the starting point of the state of nature, where people stand outside of all...

...-appointed spokes- men for modern secular culture return the compliment and brand the church as antimodern, reactionary, and so on. But this polar opposition doesn’t really stand up to examination. There was perhaps a time when the Catholic Church was totally against “modernity...

... Bois’s readers in 1903 could not hear. I read the epigraphs as hieroglyphs that stand in for gaps in the text, gaps that subsequent writers would strive to fi ll. I end my article with a reading of Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, a novel...

... the northwestern tip of the United States, in Seattle, in the gray indecision of the International District, in a non- descript transient hotel, deep in the hotel’s basement, behind a solid oak door with a rusty padlock, stands a storage room, and in the storage room lies a mas- sive pile...

...) photographing an unfinished wall standing by itself in the open terrain allows one to imagine a future time when the wall will tumble and such a structure will resemble a monument of its own undoing — like those parts of the wall left in Ber- lin...

... to make way for a high-rise office development. The original projectors, which belonged to Mumbai's erstwhile Drive-in Cinema, now stand as silent symbols of a romantic past. They stand along with their replicas in wood, painstakingly hand carved with recycled teak wood that would have belonged...