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Return of a Repressed Res-Publica
Wendy Brown in a special issue of Theory & Event: For three decades, American populist politics have been largely reactionary, instigated and instrumentalized by monied interests. What finally...
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Global Solidarity and the Occupy Movement
On December 1, 2011, twenty-four people joined together in a small Pennsylvania town to show their solidarity with the protesters of Tahrir by targeting a company that makes tear gas used in the...
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Amorous Analogies: How #OWS Connects the Dots
In a social theory graduate seminar about a year ago, Peter Marcuse, a radical lawyer and urban planning prof, came by for a chat. He asked us what social theory was for. First came embarrassed...
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Living Politically
Less than ten years ago, a day of international protests swept across the globe, involving millions of human beings for nearly a full 24 hours. It was a global protest against the United States...
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The Congo: A Revolution Deferred
In the run-up to last November’s presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cassandras were easy to find on the streets of Kinshasa. “Ça va péter,” a parliamentarian told me,...
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Democracy and Change: What are the Prospects for an “African Spring?”
Street protests in Senegal did not translate into full-scale uprisings. High unemployment and expectations among a bulging youth population, cost of living pressures, aging long-time rulers and...
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