Participants are invited to join us live in the fifth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the globe. If you are interested in joining us, please contact us by email at editor.thenewpolis@gmail.com. If you have not participated in previous seminars, please provide us with…
The Politics Of Pause, Struggling Over Speed For Better Futures (Critical Conversations 3)
The following is the video and transcript of the third “Critical Conversation”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by The New Polis and Whitestone Publications and involving international scholars. The seminar took place on October 27, 2020. Roger Green: Okay, welcome everybody. My name is Roger Green, I’m the general…
An Introduction And Call For Submissions To The New Polis On The Doctrine of Discovery (Roger Green)
The New Polis, in conjunction with other Whitestone Publications, is currently at work on a larger project for the year 2021 that involves the publication of articles, online seminars and conferences, and more expansive as well as deep-reaching conversations concerning indigeneity and the “de-colonizing” of prevailing forms of intellectual discourse…
Discovery, St. Junípero, Lewis and Clark (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe / Osage Nation)
Out of respect for Dr Tinker’s writing style, the editor has chosen to keep the author’s footnotesintact. Readers should know that they often expand and clarify the text in addition to pointing to sources. Readers may also be interested in Tinker’s earlier piece on The New Polis tracing the history of a…
Critical Conversations – 2020 And The Catastrophe Of The Global Neoliberal Order (Announcement)
Participants are invited to join us live in the fourth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the globe. If you are interested in joining us, please contact us by email at editor.thenewpolis@gmail.com. If you have not participated in previous seminars, please provide us with…
Gnosticism And The Contemporary Production Of Race (Jacob Vangeest)
“Blackness is not only that which relates to the constitutive outside of any social bond—whether that outside be excluded or included is secondary—but also that which relates to the undoing or unraveling of every social bond” -Jared Sexton, “On Black Negativity” Carl Schmitt defines the Greek nomos as the cutting…
Restoring The “Common Good” – Or Simply Hijacking It For The Educated Elites? (Carl Raschke)
America is fracturing. America is unravelling. Such a proposition, controversial four years ago, seems almost a truism these days. But a phenomenology of the Great American Crackup, quite evident in view of routine headlines and the apocalyptic and ostensibly calamitous outcome of the upcoming presidential election if the opposing party…
“Subjectivities Since the Sixties” (Critical Conversations 2)
The following is the video and transcript of the second “Critical Conversation”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by The New Polis and Whitestone Publications and involving international scholars. The seminar took place on September 22, 2020. Critical Conversations: Subjectivities Since the Sixties Jason Alvis: Thanks everyone for coming, I just…
Critical Conversations – On A “Politics Of Pause”, Struggling Over Speed For Better Futures (Announcement)
Participants are invited to join us live in the third of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the globe. If you are interested in joining us, please contact us by email at editor.thenewpolis@gmail.com. Please state your professional or academic status, affiliation, and a brief sentence…
Religious Rights And Human Rights – Why We Can’t Be Selective (Carl Raschke)
The following is the full text of a brief talk that was given as part of a special symposium, or webinar, on religious rights conducted on Oct. 9, 2020 by Human Rights Media. Thomas Jefferson, who by most historical accounts is the historical godfather of the human rights movement, declared…