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
Performative Film Practices In Tamil Politics, Part 1 (Giulia Battaglia)
The following is the first of a two-part series. Author’s note: This piece has been written as part of a bibliographic research about documentary filmmaking in South India conducted in
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,
The Meaning Of May 1968 – A Sampling Of Reflections Around The Internet
The editors of The New Polis have gathered below excerpts and summaries of some of the most significant reflections and observations that have been published to date on the long-term
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
From The Sexual Revolution To The Politics Of Recognition – The Legacy Of May 1968 (Carl Raschke)
May 1968 was known in France as l’eventement, or “the event.” It was compared to the French uprisings of 1789, 1830, 1849, and 1871 when governments dissolved and new “republics”
The Politics Of Dialect In Indian Regionalism (Shivani Bhasin)
A dialect is defined as a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a region or social group. Yet what exactly helps maintain a strict boundary between a
A Call For Reflection On May 1968 – Fifty Years Later (The Editors)
As many people watch the unfolding of events concerning historic meetings between leaders from North Korea, South Korea, and the United States unprecedented numbers of Venezuelans are flooding into Brazil,
On Enduring Borders And The Erasure Of Indigeneity, Part 2 (Roger Green)
The following is the second installment of Roger Green’s article. The first installment can be found here. In my previous post, I argued the necessity of a rigorous notion of Indigeneity if