Category: Publications
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Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser
Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser. Edited by Professor Banu Bargu of History of Consciousness and Chiara Bottici – Palgrave Macmillan, July 2017. This edited collection examines the relationship between three central terms—capitalism, feminism, and critique—while critically celebrating the work and life of a thinker who has done the most to address this nexus:…
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene (University of Minnesota Press, May 2017). Edited by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt. Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize…
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“On Decadence: Bling Bling” and “Introduction to Boggs” in e-flux #79
“Let us imagine,” David Marriott begins his essay in this issue, “that ‘black lives matter’ is a scandalous, even decadent claim, characterized, as the definition has it, by excess or luxury.” If this is so, Marriott makes clear, it is an excess we cannot afford to not afford. On Decadence: Bling Bling by Professor David Marriott and Introduction to Boggs by…
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“Liquidity” in Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies
Professor Robert Meister of the History of Consciousness contributed chapter entitled “Liquidity” to Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies (University of Chicago Press, November 2016) edited by Benjamin Lee and Randy Martin. Derivatives were responsible for one of the worst financial meltdowns in history, one from which we have not yet fully recovered. However, they are likewise capable…
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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Cthulucene (Duke University Press, September 2016) by Donna J. Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies. In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants.…