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Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth: Mental Disorder

March 22, 2016 sanjay perera

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Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth: Violence

March 1, 2016March 1, 2016 sanjay perera

Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth: Violence Continue reading Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth: Violence

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America’s addiction to violence

January 5, 2016 sanjay perera

by Henry A. Giroux
Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that both lives by violence and uses it as tool to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Continue reading America’s addiction to violence

ISIS and the instrumental rationality of its Apocalypse

November 24, 2015November 24, 2015 sanjay perera

by Sanjay Perera
This Ragnarök finale that ISIS is hung up on is in effect exemplary in its utilitarian approach of the ends justifies the means thinking that underlies the rationality of its Apocalypse. Continue reading ISIS and the instrumental rationality of its Apocalypse

Noam Chomsky: US terrorism

October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 sanjay perera

Noam Chomsky is an activist and an emeritus professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Continue reading Noam Chomsky: US terrorism

Ernesto “Che” Guevara: message to the Tricontinental

August 4, 2015August 4, 2015 sanjay perera

by Ernesto “Che” Guevara Now is the time of the furnaces, and only light should be seen. — Jose Marti Twenty-one years have already elapsed since the end of the last world conflagration; numerous publications, in every possible language, celebrate … Continue reading Ernesto “Che” Guevara: message to the Tricontinental

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Flipping the script: rethinking working-class resistance

June 23, 2015June 23, 2015 sanjay perera

by Henry A. Giroux I have often thought about when that moment came in which my working class sensibility turned into a form of critical class consciousness. For most of my youth, I was defined by ruling-class types and mainstream … Continue reading Flipping the script: rethinking working-class resistance

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Terrorism, violence, and the culture of madness

April 7, 2015April 7, 2015 sanjay perera

  by Henry A. Giroux The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to … Continue reading Terrorism, violence, and the culture of madness

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Death-dealing politics in the age of extreme violence

February 10, 2015February 10, 2015 sanjay perera

by Henry A. Giroux How a society treats its children is a powerful moral and political index of its commitment to the institutions, values and principles that inform the promises of a real democracy. When measured against such criteria, it … Continue reading Death-dealing politics in the age of extreme violence

Radical punishment: the economic rationality of the Marquis de Sade

January 6, 2015June 24, 2015 sanjay perera

by Sanjay Perera …he would greatly have loved to make a formidable death machine of universal life. But mere nothingness is not his goal. What he has striven for is sovereignty, through the spirit of negation, carried to its extreme. … Continue reading Radical punishment: the economic rationality of the Marquis de Sade

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