Raechel Tiffe I decided not to participate in any illegal protests at the RNC. There’s a simple, material reason: Had I been arrested I would have been accountable for bail money (or unhappily relying on legal defense funds that I truly feel have more value elsewhere) and possibly a day’s worth of income. I have [...]
October 1st, 2008 | Platypus Review editor | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "participation"
Interview: Ernesto Laclau
Ernesto Laclau, Ashleigh Campi Confronting the confusion and fragmentation that wrought progressive politics in recent decades, Ernesto Laclau’s work attempts to theorize the path to the construction of a radical democratic politics. Drawing on Gramsci’s concept of hegemony to devise his own theory by that name, Laclau describes the processes of social articulation that creates [...]
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