Now that it is over, the vicious political battle that raged these past two weeks over the Brett Kavanaugh nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court appears less significant for its
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Carl Schmitt And The True German Origins Of Political Theology (Jonathan Cole)
“Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.” Thus opens the book that is said to have given birth to political theology—Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology, published in German in 1922.
How “Progressive” Is Identity Politics – Really? (Carl Raschke)
The language of identity has at long last come into its own as the a true lingua franca within the universe of progressivist political discourse, even though it is shot
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 Problem With “Christian” Political Theology – It’s Greek, Not Christian (Jonathan Cole)
Christian political theology has a problem, which for want of imagination I dub its “Greek problem.” Michael Walzer highlighted the essence of this problem in his stimulating book In God’s
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
Performative Film Practices In Tamil Politics, Part 2 (Giulia Battaglia)
The following article is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment appears here. Sundararaj Baskaran’s assumption that traditional popular songs and dramas did not much affect south
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
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