... mode of critique and mobilization against the controversial budget cuts to public education in California. UCMeP's playful yet earnest performative manipulations of the discourses and rituals of authority staged by the UC administration take the rhetoric and proposals for privatizing public higher...

...Moishe Postone; Timothy Brennan In this interview, Moishe Postone, author of Time, Labor, and Social Domination , discusses the Marxian critical theory of capitalism against the background of the author's intellectual biography and central historical developments of recent decades. The interview...

...Robyn Marasco This article considers The Authoritarian Personality in terms of a consistent argument in early critical theory—that fascism begins in the family. It explores the foundations of this argument in Max Horkheimer’s Studies on Authority and the Family , his first major research project as...

... approach against the background of the multiple transformations and crises of the European border regime, the authors focus on shifting paradigms in the management of labor mobility. A short review of the emerging field of “critical logistics studies” allows them to single out a process of “logistification...

...Ann Larson For the last three decades, cities and towns across the United States have grappled with a severe reduction in public funding which has weakened municipalities’ ability to provide basic services. As a result, municipal governments are increasingly financed by debt. Public Authorities (PA...

...Roy D. King; Bruna Valensia The potential for the corruption of the authority of guards by prisoners, either individually or as members of gangs, is well documented in the Anglo-American literature. What distinguishes the situation of prison gang culture in Brazil are its origins in economic...

... authorities used the prospect of temporary release as a means of incentivizing conformist behavior among prisoners. It is argued that the effectiveness of this seemingly straightforward mechanism was complicated by practical restrictions on the granting of temporary release, thus leading to “behaviorist...

... European Court of Human Rights case law, this article argues that in authorizing the state to intervene in what appear to be mere expressions of religious belief the right to religious liberty in fact involves the state in making substantive judgments about religion, a domain toward which it claims to be...

...Oleg Aronson; Robert Bird In this essay, Oleg Aronson proposes to view the protests of 1968 as a continuation of the social revolutionary processes initiated by the French Revolution. The author interprets revolution not as an event of historical rupture but as a process of long duration (in the...

...) and its author, Samuel R. Delany, who writes from a variety of subject positions: African American, gay, feminist, and more. Delany's work demonstrates how science fiction is a necessity for contemporary African American intellectual inquiry. Stars in My Pocket guides readers through a variety of webs...

... autopbiography constitutes the ruthless, possibly even declamatory, examination of an author's life and work by the author himself. More important, the autopbiography is writing of an imagined dead self by a living self as a means of anticipating, and maybe even liquidating, the criticism of—the criticism that...

... articulation of the “fear” underlying the loss of human autonomy as a political problem, including the ways in which Foucault’s efforts to theorize resistance and the refusal of normative structures of social organization are still forceful or remain inadequate. Many of these authors are concerned with the...

...Emma Dowling; Anna Feigenbaum; Susan Pell; Katherine Stanley This essay brings together the authors’ experiences and observations with reflections gathered in an open workshop about Occupy London organized under the banner of the Tent City University working group. The essay posits Occupy London...

... and Russian Revolutions, considered as the two decisive revolutionary moments of the twentieth century. The author calls for us to reposition the Russian Revolution outside of a Eurocentric frame by examining the ways that Lenin and other revolutionaries thought about Russia through the lens of...

...Sophie Smith The political condition of the US-Mexico border has been deemed a homeland security crisis by governing authorities and a crisis of death and disappearance by aid workers and activists. As the US Border Patrol delivers temporary and permanent military-style policing structure to armor...

... following extract from Romano Alquati (taken from Walking to Realize a Common Dream , Velleità Alternative, 1994, pp. 70–81) measures this gap, trying to indicate the affinities and divergences between the author’s argument and the practice of worker’s inquiry, with the aim of proposing a schema of co...

...Julietta Singh This essay considers the concept of the errand through its colonial ties, as a means of delivering forceful messages from an authority across time and space to other bodies. Troubling the colonial attachments to errand doing and errand making, the article turns to Harry Dodge’s video...

... working-class black women and women of color through music, sonic connection, and the hijacking of media communication. The film’s political commitment in both its production and content is anarchistic; it questions authority, refuses hierarchical structures, and calls for us to destabilize all dominant...

..., and potentially ruptures the scales of the empirical. Privileging performativity, gesture, resonance, and metaphor over the authority and purported veridicality of Western empirical science, the poetics of black feminism investigated here is instructive for a general theory of representation...

...-authored chapters of Adorno’s in the Authoritarian Personality project, where Adorno attempts “to examine the relation of anti-minority prejudice to broader ideological and characterological patterns.” On the surface, this chapter is quite literally a reporting of prejudice in the voices of interview...