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 Pharmakon and Ayahuasca Globalization (Roger Green)
Jacques Derrida theorized in an interview on “The Rhetoric of Drugs”: The production and distribution of drugs are, of course, primarily organized by right-wing forces or regimes, by a certain
Expanding the Rhetorical, Genealogical, and New Materialist Implications of Joshua Ramey’s The Politics of Divination (Joshua Hanan)
The following is part of a series of responses to Joshua Ramey’s book, Politics of Divination. You can read our interview with Ramey here. You can read Carl Raschke’s response
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
Call For Submissions – Drugs And Capitalism
Drugs and spices have long been at the center of global trade, but the concept of “drug” in its modern, Western sense is particularly derived from interactions with cultural “others.”
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 Enduring Borders And The Erasure Of Indigeneity, Part 3 (Roger Green)
The following is the third and final installment of Roger Green’s ongoing article. The first installment can be found here. The second can be found here. I have been posting regarding the
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