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...Henry A. Giroux Once More, with Conviction Defending Higher Education as a Public Good henry a. giroux If the university does not take seriously and rigorously its role as a guardian of wider civic freedoms, as interrogator of more and more complex ethical problems, as servant...

...Francesco Crocco Contesting the Manufactured Crisis of Public Higher Education at CUNY francesco crocco Chanting “Education is a right! Fight! Fight! Fight!” a coalition of students, faculty, and staff from the City University of New York (CUNY) staged an act of peaceful civil...

...Lionel Ruffel Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 The Public Spaces of Contemporary Literature lionel ruffel Translated by Matthew H. Evans Very few concepts are transparently transhistorical, or globally global in a transhistorical sense. None of those that I commonly use...

... dependent on acts of aesthetic representation afforded by the operetta and feuilleton? With a focus on metropolitan sites of entertainment in Berlin, Paris, and Vienna, Matala de Mazza illuminates a sphere of ordinary people, notorious nonreaders, who have shaped the very meaning of the words public...

... and Jacob Appelbaum’s Autonomy Cube (2014)—an installation that initiates a public Wi-Fi hotspot using the open-source anonymizing Tor network. Allowing connected viewers to retain their independence from internet surveillance, this work is often discussed as offering a model of resistance in terms of self...

...Jean-Luc Nancy; Patrick Lyons Abstract Jean-Luc Nancy published four times in Qui Parle during his lifetime: once in 1987, once in 1989, and twice in 2017. “Under Construction: Interventions” marks the first English translation of his first publication in this journal, in its second-ever issue...

...Michael Mark Cohen; Leigh Raiford Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 “Thanks to Berkeley . . .” Managing Multiculturalism in an Age of Austerity michael mark cohen and leigh raiford This essay links questions of economic austerity, the crisis in public education...

... space. “The neutralizing action of State sovereignty,” he writes, “relegates political energies . . . to the Subject’s interior in order to render them politically inoffensive.”1 The state’s neutralization of public space encourages the development of interior space, thus creating “the Subject’s...

...- industrial turn4 to the point where their predicament calls for a multisided intervention of public authorities much more vigorous and coherent than the ones, largely media-oriented and reactive, that it has elicited thus far. Nor does it rule out the possibility that, absent...

... take up the challenge of Moten and Harvey’s claim that the mo- bile and dispersed “fugitive publics” of student debt make possible new forms of political affi liation. I argue that the militant student movement that emerged between 2009 and 2010 to protest bud- get cuts, tuition...

... of hands-on engagement. So, too, the public things of democratic life require care and sustenance. As such, those public things are figures for democracy. I recall how, in New York, after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the cell-phone towers went down and people suddenly couldn’t call their relatives to let...

.... The student uprisings were always about much more than cuts; students stood up without hesitation, and still stand against the eviction of democracy from politics and the simultane- ous eviction of people(s) from public space. The illusionary integrity of British democracy means little in the face...

... various versions, of sexuality as social negativity, that I wish today to say “NO.” When Michael Warner, in his moving and brilliant book, tells us what his “trouble with normal” is and praises public sex in opposition to legalized same-sex marriage, which he considers...

.... -Key Texts and Voices One of the great successes within this genre is Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran (hereafter RLT),3 a book that within a year of its publication had already spent over thirty-three weeks on the RETOOLING...

... and the trebling of undergraduate fees to £9,000, making England the most expensive place to attend public university in the world. As president of the National Union of Students (NUS) in the UK, I have found this to have been perhaps the toughest period in living memory to represent the views of students...

... as though we have entered Ty: Higher Education on Its Knees 5 fully into an era in which the “economic state of emergency is be- coming permanent.”9 Although this volume does little to make a secret of its left coast bias, the principal motive for its publication...

... is British romanticism, nationalism, utopian studies, education, and the in- tersection of critical pedagogy and game-based learning. His most recent publications include “The Colonial Subtext of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s Eighteen Hundred and Eleven” (Wordsworth Circle, 2010...

... extent already have become the same. They all want to become “excellent” and “world class”; they all want to be research-led; they all want to get to the top of the league table; they are all chasing publication in a small number of jour- nals included in a small number of global citation indexes...