Category: Movement

Doom du jour

13/02/2016

Board of Regents warns of serious adverse impact of budget shortfalls on higher education SACS institutional accreditation could be in jeopardy FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dr. Katara A. Williams Asst. Commissioner for Public Affairs 225-342-4253 February 12, 2016 Baton Rouge, LA -Louisiana’s Commissioner for Higher Education says colleges and universities across the state are bracing … More Doom du jour

Punctum Books

31/01/2016

…[W]hy is everyone so afraid to write what they want to write, to publish what they want to publish? Why, we ruminated together, whether we are seeking tenure-track jobs or have tenure already or simply want to get inside the covers of a book, are we besieged by so many anxieties and fears regarding what … More Punctum Books

Huey P. Long

31/12/2015

For the new year I propose we study some texts of alleged demagogue Huey P. Long, whose analysis may not be entirely scientific, but who is extremely interesting. An installment: Ladies and Gentlemen: — I have only 30 minutes in which to speak to you this evening, and I, therefore, will not be able to … More Huey P. Long

Slavoj Žižek

17/11/2015

Global capitalism has no problem in accommodating itself to a plurality of local religions, cultures and traditions. So the irony of anti-Eurocentrism is that, on behalf of anti-colonialism, one criticizes the West at the very historical moment when global capitalism no longer needs Western cultural values in order to smoothly function. In short, one tends … More Slavoj Žižek

Plan Mérida

17/11/2015

According Gustavo Gil, director of political analysis at Integralia, a Mexico City consultancy firm, the rule of law should replace military aid as the central pillar of the Mérida Initiative. “As long as Mexico’s institutions are unable to impose the rule of law,” he says, “the routine violation of human rights will continue.” Gil cites … More Plan Mérida

Ryan Craig

16/08/2015

C’est donc en raison de ses faiblesses et non de ses réussites que l’université américaine présente une menace: tout l’invite à inventer d’urgence des solutions innovantes et, pour les rentabiliser, à les diffuser à l’étranger. L’Asie sera sa première cible, pour des raisons démographiques et économiques. Mais l’Europe sera également touchée si les Etats-Unis créent … More Ryan Craig

Perry Anderson

27/07/2015

Journalists, exiles, editors, underground conspirators, this was by definition an intelligentsia without positions or place in the institutions of the state. Read all about it. Axé.