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An online magazine of ideas, scholarship, and debate published by The New School
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What’s left of kisses? (opens the original)
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In his short story, “Lucullus’s trophies,” Bertolt Brecht wrote (while in exile), “The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds however leave scars.” With many around the world enduring wounds and scars inflicted by political violence, we remember the human endearments such violence threatens.Public Seminar’s Julie Allan interviews activist and artist Susan Simensky Bietila about her new bo
Who says it has to work this way? (opens the original)
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A city can be organized around systems that feel impossible to change. A political moment can open a new space for possibility without knowing exactly what comes next. An academic field can absorb decades of criticism without fundamentally changing its course. Even something as familiar as a sentence has a history shaped by technologies, institutions, and changing ideas about how we communicate.This week at Public Seminar, we’re looking at what happens when we stop treating these structures as f
Unwanted inheritance (opens the original)
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In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt wrote that “the stateless have attached themselves like a curse to all the newly established states on earth which were created in the image of the nation-state.” This week at Public Seminar, we look at excerpts from two books that deal with the creation and legacy of the Israeli state, and how to move on from the uneasy political categories it has created.In Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics
What can be saved? (opens the original)
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It’s the start of the school year, and as we begin anew at Public Seminar, we’re considering what familiar concepts and practices we can rehabilitate: Can the justice system be transformed? Can we cast fresh eyes on the crass manliness of Jackass?Emma Robertson reviews Emily Galvin Almanza’s debut book, The Price of Mercy, which looks at the US justice system thro
Trump, hero of global labor rights? (opens the original)
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In the latest at Public Seminar, two economists from The New School’s Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies review Trump’s use of Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 to impose tariffs on trading partners who have failed to prohibit “the importation of goods produced with forced labor.” That sounds like a good thing—but upon taking a look at the fine print, Thomas Liess and William Milberg recognize the same old revenue-raising ta
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