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Kun Huang, “Anti-Blackness” in Chinese Racial-Nationalism: Sex/Gender, Reproduction, and Metaphors of Pathology
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Giorgio Agamben, Clarifications
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Moni Ovadia, The Working Class in the Age of Coronavirus
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Pun Ngai, The Epidemic Exposes the Injustice of China’s Judicial System
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Minju Bae, Demilitarization in the Time of Police Abolition: Korean A-bomb Survivors Demand Justice
August 6 and 9, 2020 mark seventy-five years since the US dropped atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Despite how long it has been, A-bomb...
Kamran Baradaran, Ground Zero, or Why Do We Need Antonio Gramsci in the Times of COVID-19
“Politics is a protracted war. Do not be in a hurry. Try to see things far in advance and know how to wait, today. Don’t...
Kun Huang, “Anti-Blackness” in Chinese Racial-Nationalism: Sex/Gender, Reproduction, and Metaphors of Pathology
Author: Kun Huang Translators: Roy Chan, Shui-yin Sharon Yam Notes on English edition: This essay was originally published in Chinese on the “Trading Thoughts” column...
Federico Marcon,Theses on Theory and Intellectual Production
“das Höchste wäre zu begreifen, dass alles Faktische schon Theorie ist.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhem Meisters Wanderjahre I scribbled down a draft of these...
The proletariat are all those who are denied the collective faculty of imagination: an interview with Divya Dwivedi
Divya Dwivedi is a philosopher and author based in India. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Delhi....
Jean-Luc Nancy and Shaj Mohan, Our Mysterious Being
The English translation of these texts first appeared in “The Philosophical Salon” at the LA Review of Books on April 13, 2020 “. https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/our-mysterious-being/ COMMUNOVIRUS...
Cao Zhi (192-232 CE), The Plague Airs
Cao Zhi, son of Cao Cao and one of the best known poets of the late Han/Three Kingdoms period, wrote this piece about a plague. The...
Jeremy Fernando, On living in the age of pandemic
Giorgio Agamben tries to never let us forget that keeping alive is not quite the same as living. [1] And whilst he was widely derided...
Shaj Mohan, What Carries Us On
This is Shaj Mohan’s contributions to the debate on Coronavirus and the state of exception sparkled by Agamben’s contribution. It was originally published in the...
Giorgio Agamben, Clarifications
New contribution from Agamben, with a short piece in response to the controversy surrounding his article on the response to the Coronavirus. https://itself.blog/2020/03/17/giorgio-agamben-clarifications/?fbclid=IwAR079vYMlEhnBZLvFx432kN08vMXusznSfkuzlTlsa48Dx4EzF7WRLf3-yw
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