Category Archives: Response to Course Matieral

To Organize Without a Preface: On Rodrigo Nunes’ Organization of the Organizationless

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Dave Mesing

This is an initial attempt at working out and synthesizing some thoughts on an excellent book by a friend of mine, Rodrigo Nunes. I think it relates to a few people’s projects, so my focus here has been mainly to … Continue reading →

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Peter Frase on Thomas Frank/The Baffler

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Dave Mesing

This article in Jacobin by Peter Frase provides a good critique of Frank’s article, as well as a situation of The Baffler’s history and its influence in leftist politics. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2012/12/modify-your-dissent/

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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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Politics-Violence Distinction in Arendt’s On Violence

Posted on February 12, 2014 by C

  This post traces two questions in On Violence: 1) On what basis does Arendt separate violence and politics?; 2) What are the political ramifications of this separation? I think these questions are pertinent to the ongoing discussion in the … Continue reading →

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Politics, Violence, and Complicity: A Few Notes on Arendt’s On Revolution

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Dave Mesing

One of the most problematic elements of On Revolution, as we have discussed a bit in class and also on the blog with the Zinn article, is her resounding silence about the constitutive genocide coterminous with the American Revolution she … Continue reading →

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A Discourse on the Working Definition of Revolution

Posted on January 31, 2014 by crupert

I wanted to start this blog entry with the hope of creating a continuing discourse on the working definition of revolution proposed in class.  I asked Dr. Rockhill for the exact wording of the following definition, which he put forward … Continue reading →

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