“One divides into two.” This enigmatic phrase once functioned as the ideological lynchpin of the Cultural Revolution. Maoism redrew the profile of Marxist theory. The dialectic, understood as an ideological
Category: Critical Theory
The Cultural Contradictions Of “Democratic Socialism” (Carl Raschke)
Ever since Bernie Sanders’ bid for the Presidential nomination in 2016, and more recently with the surprise primary defeat in New York’s 14th Congressional District of establishment icon and incumbent
Walter Benjamin’s Notes On Various Topics, Part 2
Translated by Rachel Thomas. Edited by Carl Raschke. The following is the second part of a series of translated fragments (or “short prose”) from the writings of Walter Benjamin, beginning
The Missed Encounter Between Critical Theory And American Pragmatism (Daniel Tutt)
The German Frankfurt School theorist and philosopher Max Horkheimer’s Eclipse of Reason (1947) presents one of the most thorough and far-ranging critiques of American philosophy and of American thought ever
On Marx, Stiegler, And The Neoliberal ‘Commodity’ – Further Conversation With Joshua Ramey (Carl Raschke)
This article is a follow-up to the interview conducted by New Polis general editor Roger Green with Joshua Ramey on neoliberalism and the “politics of divination.” Joshua Ramey’s take on
On Neoliberalism And The Politics Of Divination – An Interview With Joshua Ramey
The following is an interview The New Polis conducted in May 2018 with Joshua Ramey. It largely concerns his influential 2016 book, Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of
Walter Benjamin’s Notes On Various Topics, Part 1
Translated by Rachel Thomas. Edited by Carl Raschke. The following is the first part of a series of translated fragments (or “short prose”) from the writings of Walter Benjamin, beginning
The Affects Of May 1968 – On Liberal Subjectivity And Its Discontents (Roger Green)
Elliot Neaman closes his book, Free Radicals: Agitators, Hippies, Urban Guerrillas, and Germany’s Youth Revolt of the 1960s and 1970s, stating that the battles of the late 1960s persist today,
Prophets In Spite Of Themselves – Foucault And Baldwin On Truth And Innocence (Corey McCall)
Recently scholars have begun to consider various ways that the work of Michel Foucault and James Baldwin might converge. Typically, comparisons between the two writers have been staged on the
How “Democratic” Is – And Has Been – The Muslim Brotherhood? – Part 2 (Kara Roberts)
The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. The increasing civil unrest in Egypt in 2011, instigated by police brutality, unemployment,