Critical Theory and the Current Crisis in Education

This is an English version of a paper presented in Portuguese in Campinas, Brazil, on September 16, 2010.

Introduction

Occupy everything! Dieser Hörshaal ist besetzt! ¡Huelga! Greve! These and many other slogans have been shouted on university campuses during this last year, a tumultuous one for many universities throughout the world, as students, workers, [...]

How to Build a Self-Publishing Newspaper with Twitter

[Update: 10/15/2011 – I'm no longer maintaining the paper.li example site. So, while still functional, it may be out of date.]

There are plenty of blogs and news sites online, so why build your own newspaper? Most of us probably don’t need to, but some bloggers or educators might find it useful to have [...]

SB 1070: ¿racismo o lógica neoliberal?

Hoy es Cinco de Mayo, pero dudo que los mexicanos en el estado de Arizona tengan ganas de festejar, ya que la gobernadora del estado acaba de firmar una ley que institucionaliza el racismo. No hay duda que la ley es fundamentalmente racista, ya que depende de criterios raciales para identificar y reprimir una [...]

Critical Standpoints in Post-Soviet Cuban Literature: Ena Lucía Portela

This is a slightly modified version of a short talk I gave on March 1, 2010, at the Center for Latin American Studies in Berkeley, California.

Introduction This paper is an early attempt to show how Ena Lucía Portela’s El pájaro: pincel y tinta china contains formal features grounded in a kind of postmodern [...]

Labor’s Relation to Capital: Notes on Christopher Arthur

After much delay, I’ve read Christopher Arthur’s The New Dialectic and Marx’s Capital. I have a lot of good things to say about the book, and I consider it, along with Moishe Postone’s Time, Labor, and Social Domination, to be among the best supplementary readings to Marx’s Capital and Grundrisse. For pedagogical purposes, it [...]