Professor Guy Standing speaks of the Precariat, an emerging new class based on job insecurity. http://www.guystanding.com/

“Professor Rose is one of our leading contemporary social scientists. Currently he is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King’s College, […]

Award-winning author of Eradicating Ecocide, barrister and international environmental lawyer, Polly proposed to the U.N. in April 2010 that a law of Ecocide be classed as a 5th international crime […]

Into Lauren Berlant. Speakers: Michael Hardt, Duke University; Kaushik Sunder Rajan, University of Chicago. Discussant: Andreas Glaeser, University of Chicago.

http://vimeo.com/21689832 http://lessentiersdelutopie.wordpress.com/ http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/the-spirit-of-utopia

After The Drones Text by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker Voice by Marilouise Kroker Edited by Jackson 2bears

“The most resonant slogan of Occupy Wall Street is “we are the 99%!” But who are the one percent? The popular answer is “Wall Street.” But to think about this […]

“A growing number of artists are abandoning truth-telling political art for a boldly utopian practice, recognizing that political problems can’t be solved by an atrophied collective imagination. With examples ranging […]

“A piece I’m showing in Six Chapel Row in Bath in July. Influenced by Dan Graham’s piece about Urbanism “Homes for America” the words Homes For America are searched for […]

from the Center on Capitalism and Society 9th Annual Conference, http://capitalism.columbia.edu/ http://www.saskiasassen.com/ Tweets by SaskiaSassen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-ax5cPoCmo

Mark Johnson of Lakoff&Johnson fame has gone on to become one of the cutting-edge figures in pragmatism fleshing out the works of Dewey, James, and others. At at about 52mins […]

Modernity has two powerful characteristics that constantly produce redundant people, who can’t be accommodated—the people that don’t fit. The first is the order-building characteristic: modernity is obsessively ordering a chaotic […]

“Hegel famously judged art to be a thing of the past. Is that verdict still justified? Do we not need art more than ever today?” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wood_%28philosopher%29 http://www.jcrt.org/archives/10.1/Simmons.pdf