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Politics

This is a section where we will discuss the problem of politics understood in broad terms. This will include, of course, discussions of politics parties, elections, policy matters, and the like. But it can also include discussions of how political questions are imbedded in realms of our lives we rarely think of as politically situated, and can touch on everything from problems we encounter in our everyday lives to how power, knowledge, and desire relate to one another in theoretical, methodological, and practical terms.

Is Donald Trump Evil? A 14th Floor Conversation.

Our Writers Tackle the Trump Phenomenon Head On.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens & Perpetual War

Sean Callaghan considers the implications of a Star Wars galaxy caught in perpetual war. What is at the heart of this constant repetition of rising Death Stars? Is this an issue that goes much deeper than bad scriptwriting?

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Fragmentation and Stalemate: Speculating on Conflict

“Strategic stalemate: when force correlations approach equilibrium and guerrilla warfare becomes the most important activity.” Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army Commander, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center Counterinsurgency Field Manual, FM3-24, MCWP 3-33.5 (2006) “For when the mind is taken up in vision and fixes its view either on any real object or mere […]

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Can First World Literature Teach us Anything?

Can bourgeois, monolingual authors provide insight into the experience of marginalized others?

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Say No to the War Machine

When the drumbeat of militarism rises all around us, how do we think our way out of the War Machine?

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Solidarity Beyond Culture: What Three Weeks in Beijing Taught me About Democracy

After attending an academic exchange program sponsored by the Chinese government for 36 of the world’s leading young sinologists, Mark McConaghy reports back on what he learned.

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The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show, Part I. Fly-boy.

Sean Callaghan writes the first flash zombie fiction installment in his ongoing series, “The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show.”

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After the Zombie Apocalypse, After Modernity

In which Sean Callaghan ruminates on the political unconscious of The Walking Dead, on what it means to have hope during a zombie apocalypse, and where we go after the dust has settled on all our dead undead.

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Against the Structured Generation

By Mark McConaghy

For a generation defined by the structured rhythms of the school and the corporation, what possibilities exist to nurture the “gaps” in experience the lead to genuine change?

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Striking for Dignity at U of T

By Mark McConaghy

The Struggle Against Poverty At Canada’s Most Prestigious University.

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