Monthly Archives: February 2014

Relevant Thomas Frank Article

Posted on February 28, 2014 by crupert

Frank in his usual bellicose style, treats several issues we’ve been discussing, including words, the social question, and politics, and a few we haven’t like liberal and academic elitism. http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/paul_krugman_wont_save_us_we_need_a_new_conversation_about_inequality/#

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Vice Podcast on Redefining Revolution

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Jared Bly

Vice Podcast on Redefining Revolution We might not be 100% on board with Vice, but their guest seems to be thinking about revolution along the same lines.

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Local (UPenn/Villanova) Conference on Revolutions

Posted on February 21, 2014 by crupert

http://www.aglsp.org/archives/1520

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Arendt on Labor Movements: Taking Up the Social Question Politically

Posted on February 19, 2014 by holmesa1

Hey y’all, I’ve been thinking a bit about some of the conclusions we seemed to reach last class in regard to Arendt on the social question.  As Sean helpfully pointed us to the passage at the end of chapter 2 … Continue reading →

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Student Protests in Kosova

Posted on February 17, 2014 by jmulaj

The student protests in Kosova started after it was revealed that the rector of University of Prishtina (the main public university of Kosova) had published articles in unaccredited journals in order to meet the necessary requirements for promotion to rector … Continue reading →

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Presidents’ Day and Slavery

Posted on February 17, 2014 by RED

Here is a relevant report on Democracy Now! about slavery and the first American presidents.

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David Graeber Podcast

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Jared Bly

David Graeber Podcast Here is a David Graeber talk that is quite apropos… enjoy!

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Pertinent Zotero group

Posted on February 17, 2014 by C

Pertinent Zotero group A good chunk of literature on revolution, enjoy! 

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The Social Question as the Follow-up Question

Posted on February 15, 2014 by crupert

I detect a consensus opinion in class, concluding that Arendt’s answer to the social question in On Revolution is to “leave it alone.”  I would like to offer a dissenting opinion, but before I do, I want to address a … Continue reading →

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Protests and Riots in Bosnia

Posted on February 13, 2014 by jmulaj

Here are some articles and videos on Bosnian protests and riots: http://roarmag.org/2014/02/bosnia-protests-nationalism-workers/ http://roarmag.org/2014/02/bosnia-protests-tuzla-workers/ For those of you who like Zizek: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/10/anger-bosnia-ethnic-lies-protesters-bosnian-serb-croat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_xqcI2bBKE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ujFYB7CCeE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHT8w2XWTB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyid9zQWpaw I will try to translate something on the Kosovar student protests and post it before our … Continue reading →

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