SAH Commons | Gustavo Racy | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/gustavoracy/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Gustavo Racy is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:52:48 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 fb5dc9234fd61d0e3a1d09ccaabb6e1d Justin Walsh deposited Archaeology in space: The Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE) on the International Space Station. Report 1: Squares 03 and 05 in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896909/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:00:48 -0400 Between January and March 2022, crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) performed the first archaeological fieldwork in space, the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE). The experiment aimed to: (1) develop a new understanding of how humans adapt to life in an environmental context for which we are not…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd7df2459d76d330ca2631a142130519 David I. Backer deposited Critical School Finance in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888918/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:00:58 -0400 In this paper, we put forth a framework called Critical School Finance, articulating the framework itself and then applying it to school facilities finance. First, we go back to first principles and discuss what ‘critical’ denotes, revisiting critical theorist Max Horkheimer’s seminal essay ‘Traditional vs. Critical Theory.’ Second, we offer fiv…[Read more]

]]> 0 873cf8fb5e6d679ce7ce8af487c998c0 Titus Stahl deposited Oppressive Forms of Life in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887449/ Wed, 29 May 2024 03:00:58 -0400 Rahel Jaeggi argues that forms of life ought to be the main reference point for a critical theory of society because the internal normative structure of life forms allows for immanent critique. In this article, I extend her model by systematically considering the possibility of oppressive forms of life. Oppressive forms of life are clusters of…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f95984feac6bf959af4f6422b1e04e1 Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History: Habermas's Elision of Public Imagination in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884687/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:30:40 -0400 Hiding from History: Habermas’s Model of Political Deliberation
Meili Steele

Jürgen Habermas’s recent interventions in disputes about public history have served to underscore the failure of his philosophy to address an issue crucial to any democratic community: how to deliberate about one’s symbolic inheritance. His well-known immuni…[Read more]

]]> 0 5142424494b21241e06bfba8c95458fa Justin Walsh deposited Adapting to Space: The International space Station Archaeological Project in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871045/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:00:49 -0500 The International Space Station Archaeological Project (ISSAP), co-directed by Alice Gorman and me, is the first full-scale, systematic archaeological investigation of the material culture from a site of human activity in space. We started in late 2015, in response to a number of phenomena, including a growing desire to move the focus of space…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4ece0f4dc3801a9eb12c9fa8be4486f Titus Stahl deposited Social Structure and Epistemic Privilege. Reconstructing Lukács’s Standpoint Theory in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868772/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 03:00:39 -0500 Lukács is widely recognized as being the first critical theorist to have explicitly developed the idea of a “standpoint theory”. According to such a theory, members of oppressed groups enjoy an epistemic privilege regarding the nature of their oppression. However, there is no agreement regarding what precise argument Lukács offers for his claim…[Read more]

]]> 0 19e178b816e14305f75f423409724407 Victor Nnadozie deposited Divergence and the use of digital technology in learning: Undergraduate students’ experiences of email feedback in a South African university in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864694/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:14:27 -0500 South African universities’ use of digital technologies in learning has increased in recent years. Given that
social exposure, the context and pedagogic uses of technology influence learning expectations and
learner involvement, it is important to understand students’ experiences of the use of different
technological tools. This article emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 822816d85ec491b1931c47e70cfd4f2e Victor Nnadozie deposited Self-agency and Academically High-performing Students’ Success: Towards a Praxis for Academic Support in one South African University in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864494/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 03:01:37 -0500 Globally, student support mechanisms focus almost exclusively on academically ‘under-performing’
students, especially as insofar as academic development practices are concerned. This article makes a
case for a shift in approach. Using the context of one country, South Africa, we sought to better
understand the strengths that academically…[Read more]

]]> 0 b17455a830d229bc1776457b9f749a44 Justin Walsh deposited First Approximation of Population Distributions on the International Space Station in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862880/ Sat, 28 Oct 2023 03:01:55 -0400 This paper presents an analysis of data derived from thousands of publicly available photographs showing life on the International Space Station (ISS) between 2000 and 2020. Our analysis uses crew and locational information from the photographs’ metadata to identify the distribution of different population groups—by gender, nationality, and spa…[Read more]

]]> 0 05d62e8f238723c5737240e091dc81b1 Titus Stahl deposited Beyond the nonideal: Why critical theory needs a utopian dimension in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852464/ Sat, 22 Jul 2023 02:23:39 -0400 “Ideal theorists” in contemporary liberal political theory argue that we can only arrive at a conception of what our most important political values require by reference to an imagined ideal state of affairs and that we must therefore, to some extent, engage in utopian thinking. Critical theorists, from Marx and the Frankfurt School, have tra…[Read more]

]]> 0 69537d73b3ae86e54e01809ba05daaa1 Brittany Myburgh deposited Disneyland and the American Frontiers: A Timeless Utopia in the group Intaglio Journal https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849013/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 02:23:43 -0400 In 1955, Disneyland opened its doors and the American public descended into the fantastical world of Walt Disney. While Disneyland corresponded to the company’s growing brand as a movie-making empire, it also reflected the way that the original American colonies and the ever-developing Western frontier shaped the American mindset. Based on the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3725696ee2a663a62122a01f0a9eb09 Brittany Myburgh deposited Flat Tire in the group Intaglio Journal https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849012/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 02:23:42 -0400 Flattened, the tire was. Pedalling with great strength, I push myself forward in the country road illuminated by lonely street lamps, leading the front tire—headstrong—advancing. Trailing behind, the synthetic black rubber greets the asphalt paved road with a kiss from a frail body. In turn, a bathetic road rash of a romance cut short by the jea…[Read more]

]]> 0 737370e19642ad48d1226ef72eb74928 Brittany Myburgh deposited The Challenge of Depicting Divinity: Stefano da Putignano’s Trinity in the group Intaglio Journal https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849011/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 02:23:41 -0400 Stefano da Putignano’s Trinity (1520) depicts Jesus on the cross placed between the legs of an enthroned God the Father with the dove of the Holy Spirit connecting the two. Located in the small southern Italian city of Turi, this painted stone statue is one of the earliest examples of a human-sized statue of God the Father. It is unique in its m…[Read more]

]]> 0 d1c89d1c258af8f725b5bca7e3c3d950 Gustavo Racy deposited Of Cannibals and Witches: Monstrosity and Capitalism at the Onset of Colonial Visual Culture in the group Visual Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834287/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:35 -0500 This article provides preliminary insight into the creation of colonial visual culture. Using visual examples, the author shows how the encounter between European and Amerindian was, at first, apparently deprived of moral judgement, later being increasingly signified through moral and physical monstrosity, especially the female body, which served…[Read more]

]]> 0 e67b44057bf9a98ffbdb548b7c6f71b2 Gustavo Racy deposited Of Cannibals and Witches: Monstrosity and Capitalism at the Onset of Colonial Visual Culture in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834286/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:34 -0500 This article provides preliminary insight into the creation of colonial visual culture. Using visual examples, the author shows how the encounter between European and Amerindian was, at first, apparently deprived of moral judgement, later being increasingly signified through moral and physical monstrosity, especially the female body, which served…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f49488e1b522f819389a056a7778f49 Gustavo Racy deposited To Make See and to Let Die: photography and testimony in the group Visual Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834285/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:34 -0500 The focus of this article is a speculative argument on the relation between photography and testimony as one that situates the viewer on a particularly powerless, but responsibility-laden position. Articulating Nilufër Demir’s viral 2015 photograph of Aylan Kurdi, and Walter Kleinfeldt’s 1918 photograph of an unknown fallen soldier, as images bear…[Read more]

]]> 0 4eb7c8bced9f81721413e317f0600904 Gustavo Racy deposited To Make See and to Let Die: photography and testimony in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834284/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:33 -0500 The focus of this article is a speculative argument on the relation between photography and testimony as one that situates the viewer on a particularly powerless, but responsibility-laden position. Articulating Nilufër Demir’s viral 2015 photograph of Aylan Kurdi, and Walter Kleinfeldt’s 1918 photograph of an unknown fallen soldier, as images bear…[Read more]

]]> 0 0c607a0f35131d9de10883e210988961 Gustavo Racy deposited The Photographer as Producer: on photography in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834283/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:32 -0500 The current article focuses on the approach to Walter Benjamin’s theory of the author as producer, narrowing it down to the case of photography. In the attempt to both expanding and testing Benjamin’s theory, the article speculates through an approach ranging from philosophy to visual culture propos-ing, at its end, a photographic principle in tun…[Read more]

]]> 0 487a4b15cd1d405ba3d7bf84945f960f Gustavo Racy deposited The Photographer as Producer: on photography in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834282/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:28 -0500 The current article focuses on the approach to Walter Benjamin’s theory of the author as producer, narrowing it down to the case of photography. In the attempt to both expanding and testing Benjamin’s theory, the article speculates through an approach ranging from philosophy to visual culture propos-ing, at its end, a photographic principle in tun…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4e1d8174367d47956e70956f50b565f Gustavo Racy created the group Visual Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833689/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:44:34 -0500 0 cfbbfa033f5c253b83730647fdadcc76 Brittany Myburgh deposited Family Portraits: The Reconstruction of “Family Time” Through Generations in the group Intaglio Journal https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833560/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 02:25:23 -0500 Marianne Hirsch’s concept of “liquid time” states that photographs are not fixed into static permanence but remain dynamic and unfixed as they acquire new meanings in new circumstances. I had not considered this concept until I began going through family photographs after my grandfather passed away. There I was, sitting on the sofa in my grand…[Read more]

]]> 0 5bae87ab106b19adcb90cd8d606a85f9 Brittany Myburgh deposited Whose Neighbourhood? Immigrant Inhabitation in the Ward in the group Intaglio Journal https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818934/ Fri, 28 Oct 2022 02:23:56 -0400 The Ward, The Noble Ward, Saint John’s Ward, Old Chinatown, and most recently, the Bay Street Corridor all describe a particular area of Toronto bordered by College Street, Yonge Street, Queen Street, and University Avenue. Historically this area was the landing point for immigrants to Canada and over time became what was considered by the local g…[Read more]

]]> 0 1615edea63b0dedca764737c97a9b314 Brittany Myburgh deposited Wounds and Willful Objects: Art, Abject Sorrow and Adorno’s Totality in the group Intaglio Journal https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816895/ Sat, 08 Oct 2022 02:23:49 -0400 Adorno’s conception of “serious art” posits that art rejects mimesis, has autonomy from the world as well as from itself but can, however, simultaneously be about the world. Autonomy, from my vantage, has always signaled will, volition, positive and negative freedom. Positive freedom being freedom from internal restraints—the art being autonom…[Read more]

]]> 0 f15d7bd81bc93fe5899f61463975ca12 Karsten Schubert deposited Biopolitics of COVID-19: Capitalist Continuities and Democratic Openings in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1769170/ Wed, 26 Jan 2022 02:23:58 -0500 “Biopolitics” has become a popular concept for interpreting the COVID-19 pandemic, yet the term is often used vaguely, as a buzzword, and therefore loses its specificity and relevance. This article systematically explains what the biopolitical lens offers for analyzing and normatively criticizing the politics of the coronavirus. I argue that…[Read more]

]]> 0 f8dc677f7c02b09d0337b37ca3479763 Justin Walsh deposited Visual Displays in Space Station Culture: An Archeological Analysis in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1761970/ Mon, 20 Dec 2021 02:24:22 -0500 We offer an archaeological analysis of the visual display of “space heroes” and Orthodox icons in the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS). This study is the first systematic investigation of material culture at a site in space. The ISS has now been continuously inhabited for 20 years. Here, focusing on the period 200…[Read more]

]]> 0 c73f4df3b7ce74e110b3264e81e827a9 Karsten Schubert deposited Brauchen wir Political Correctness? Ein politisches Streitgespräch in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760881/ Wed, 08 Dec 2021 02:23:46 -0500 Für ein Gespräch über die Themen Political Correctness, Identitätspolitik, Streitkultur und die Rolle der politischen Bildung kamen im Juli 2021 Saba-Nur Cheema von der Bildungsstätte Anne Frank und Dr. Karsten Schubert von der Universität Freiburg in einem Zoom-Raum zusammen. Die Fragen stellten Prof. Dr. Beate Rosenzweig und Petra Barz, beide…[Read more]

]]> 0 2024cd648e9cad0dc6c74adf6f9b1329 Karsten Schubert deposited Konstruktivistische Identitätspolitik. Warum Demokratie partikulare Positionierung erfordert in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758732/ Wed, 17 Nov 2021 02:23:41 -0500 Identity politics is subject to similar critiques in contemporary public debate and political theory. A central topos of this critique is that identity politics is essentializing: it fixes subjects to their social position and resorts to a politics of
particularity that leads to divisions in national citizenship and democratic discourse (the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3d52f939baa80688d7b104c5e4dd8d1 Karsten Schubert deposited Der letzte Universalismus. Foucaults Freiheitsdenken und die Begründung von radikaler Demokratie im Postfundamentalismus in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1756118/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:39:31 -0400 Die Debatte um die politische Differenz stellt Kontingenz und Konfliktualität als fundamentale Eigenschaften des Politischen heraus. Dies birgt ein Problem für die postfundamentalistische Demokratietheorie, die auf Augenhöhe mit dieser Debatte argumentieren will: Durch die Kontingentsetzung aller normativen Begründungen ist zunächst unklar, welc…[Read more]

]]> 0 6251626d4f36c83f587e83fbfd2e96ac Karsten Schubert deposited The Dismantler in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749578/ Thu, 19 Aug 2021 02:23:41 -0400 A short story about the pitfals of a new law, the General Act for the Dismantling of Normalising Power and Structures of Privilege, and, more philosophically, about the problems of institutionalizing progressive politics through law. Published in The Cabinat of Imaginary Laws, by Peter Goodrich and Thanos Zartaloudis: Returning to the map of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c6692ed46d7a64713f7faccc4705e4de Michael Maidan deposited El enigmatico Felix Weil in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749166/ Fri, 13 Aug 2021 02:24:57 -0400 The life of Felix Weil, one of the creators of Frankfurt’s Institut for Social Research, the cradle of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory..

]]> 0 5d5f444d25184ebf5b4361ab4e79a1f0 Karsten Schubert deposited A New Era of Queer Politics? PrEP, Foucauldian Sexual Liberation, and the Overcoming of Homonormativity in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748861/ Tue, 10 Aug 2021 02:23:39 -0400 Gay men have been severely affected by the AIDS crisis, and gay subjectivity, sexual ethics, and politics continue to be deeply influenced by HIV to this day. PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a new, drug-based HIV prevention technique, that allows disentangling gay sex from its widespread, 40 yearlong association with illness and death. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a27be12d242be4c91ff5d83525b86d4 Victor Nnadozie deposited Alternative pathways to universal basic education : through the lens of Almajiri nomadic schooling in northern Nigeria in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740676/ Mon, 07 Jun 2021 02:24:12 -0400 Sedentary pathways to organise teaching and learning in fixed-abode classrooms remain a dominant formal schooling practice. This is in contrast to nomadic pathways, which see teachers and/or learners engaged in a form of mobility whilst teaching/learning outside permanent sedentary settings. In northern Nigeria, not all children participating in…[Read more]

]]> 0 fcfb13801a4ca06588a66139834290ac Edwin Culp deposited Hacer tiempo. Estrategias críticas del arte en lo político in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1737621/ Sat, 08 May 2021 02:24:07 -0400 No tenemos tiempo; nunca como ahora la productividad había dominado cada aspecto de la vida. Nuestras experiencias personales se apropian como bienes extractivos de la industria de datos. El arte crítico hoy aún permite imaginar un tiempo que no pueda ser apropiado por el relato del progreso y el aprovechamiento del tiempo, que posponga la ut…[Read more]

]]> 0 64c18a88347c37c8050277f288867403 Karsten Schubert deposited The Challenge of Migration. Is Liberalism the Problem? in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1737105/ Tue, 04 May 2021 02:24:02 -0400 The challenge of developing humane migration and refugee politics in Western states is far from resolved. This ongoing failure is typically attributed to the increased influence of right-wing populism and neo-fascism in Western migration politics. In this article I discuss a more radical explanation: Christoph Menke argues that political…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0491515ef25e37a4fe2da49564cb9dc Gary Hall deposited Postdigital Politics: or, How To Be An Anti-Bourgeois Theorist in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1735855/ Fri, 23 Apr 2021 02:24:11 -0400 In ‘Postdigital Politics’ I examine our contemporary postdigital political conjuncture. This conjuncture, I argue, springs from the crisis of representative democracy we are currently experiencing and involves a shift to more direct forms of democracy via postdigital communications. The latter is evident in the decentralised manner in which mov…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f1c9920abc561f30d410a2c88b4c3bf David Backer deposited History of the Reproduction-Resistance Dichotomy in Critical Education: The Line of Critique Against Louis Althusser, 1974-1985 in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1734012/ Tue, 06 Apr 2021 02:24:19 -0400 This paper examines one intellectual and historical premise upon which the foundational distinction between reproduction and resistance rests in critical education: the line of critique against the French communist philosopher Louis Althusser’s theory of education. In the paper, I claim that a particular reading of Althusser coming out of B…[Read more]

]]> 0 18532b0bb019345210c0716e9e65bd58 Justin Walsh deposited Photography and the International Space Station Archaeological Project in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1726257/ Thu, 04 Feb 2021 02:25:06 -0500 This chapter describes the International Space Station Archaeological Project and the importance of photography as a source of evidence for life and society on ISS.

]]> 0 3df19eabd122477e054f7812e59386ee Justin Walsh deposited Eternity in Low Earth Orbit: Icons on the International Space Station in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1726254/ Thu, 04 Feb 2021 02:24:35 -0500 This paper investigates the material culture of icons on the International Space Station as part of a complex web of interactions between cosmonauts and the Russian Orthodox Church, reflecting contemporary terrestrial political and social aairs. An analysis of photographs from the International Space Station (ISS) demonstrated that a particular…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d74304512402fe661ebf50e73439395 Alexander Henschel deposited Was heißt hier Vermittlung? Kunstvermittlung und ihr umstrittener Begriff (reading sample) in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696201/ Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:28:52 -0400 Mit dem Begriff der Kunstvermittlung wird Politik gemacht und er wird mit gegenläufigen Verständnissen verknüpft. Das Buch “Was heißt hier Vermittlung?” arbeitet heraus, dass die Bedeutungskonkurrenz bereits im Streitbegriff der Vermittlung angelegt ist. Der unternommene Gang durch sozialhistorische und philosophische Begriffsgeschichten wird mit…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6d72bae38925dbf1c0ff445f35fd5f8 Frans Prasetyo deposited Ken Works : How Indonesian (Punk) Ilustrator Open the World in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1687193/ Wed, 13 May 2020 16:28:44 -0400 Illustration as part of art works has often been considered a form of low art, but as it has progressively become more developed, it has established a decent place in the art community. This paper focuses on how Indonesian punk artist succeed expanding the art of illustration in Indonesia as well as building local and global networking through…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f88c61e041f082f7385313b6fb2558e Frans Prasetyo deposited reformasi dikorupsi : Indonesia under Jokowi in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1685813/ Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:26:11 -0400 As Indonesia’s increasingly authoritarian populist president Jokowi began his second term in autumn 2019, he finds himself confronted by a new generation radicalised by the converging crises of militarism, agrarian dispossession, environmental destruction and corruption.

]]> 0 2417a7fc53a0aec03fd4c55aad36c020 Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History, Introduction, ch 3 in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683754/ Mon, 13 Apr 2020 03:48:45 -0400 This book challenges an assumption at the heart of contemporary theoretical debates: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of contemporary thought “hide from history”: liberal philosophies of public reason as espoused by such figures as Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls and Martha Nussbaum and stru…[Read more]

]]> 0 65489899d9f488298f3c5df37f893667 Frans Prasetyo deposited Die Mobilisierung des Überdrusses (Disgust mobilization in Indonesian election) in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680738/ Sat, 14 Mar 2020 16:26:08 -0400 Indonesien: Die letzten beiden Wahlen, aus denen Joko Widodo erfolgreich hervorging, waren für viele Indonesier*innen eine Enttäuschung. Appelle für mehr Bewusstsein der Bevölkerung und eine Reform politischer Praktiken werden auch musikalisch ausgedrückt. Seit Indonesien 1998 die politische Transformation (reformasi) begann, wurde es als offe…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e2018cb6ac73c67bd9d12d520a169bf Frans Prasetyo deposited The Harbour City that Never Was… and the Smart City that May (Never) Become in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1671117/ Sat, 30 Nov 2019 16:25:28 -0500 Toronto has become known for applying ‘smart’ solutions to modern urban problems. In 2014, the city
was awarded the title of “Intelligent Community of the Year” by the Intelligent Community Forum for its
array of technological answers to housing, transportation, and environmental issues. More recently,
Waterfront Toronto has partnered with th…[Read more]

]]> 0 f3681f6ef9ce4b72190858c79b67c6fb Frans Prasetyo deposited The struggle for land rights: Indonesian (urban) Agrarian Reform and (against) the Global Land Forum in Bandung in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659365/ Fri, 02 Aug 2019 16:33:47 -0400 INDONESIA PROMISED AN AMBITIOUS PROGRAM of agrarian reform. Based on that ambition, Jokowi’s government released a presidential regulation on agrarian reform. This was done, together with the 2018 Global Land Forum meeting, in Bandung, several months before the presidential election. This month, the Indonesian presidential election has been a c…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9bc40e9a944c3a7f5a5d5a971ed3893 Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) - Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640881/ Sat, 25 May 2019 03:54:21 -0400 Within the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 89be63cf3fef418b5b04cc3d17f2b1c9 Meili Steele deposited Arendt versus Ellison on Little Rock: The Role of Language in Political Judgment in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640410/ Fri, 17 May 2019 16:25:21 -0400 Few of Arendt’s writings have drawn more criticism from her own supporters than “Reflections on LIttle Rock,” in which she opposes the federally mandated desegregation of schools. I take Arendt’s comments as a way of opening up problems in her conception of the relationship among political storytelling, plurality and judgment. I do this through a…[Read more]

]]> 0 b52a4cc5ec5c73b21282770b46cd4a27 Meili Steele deposited Social Imaginaries and the Theory of the Normative Utterance in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640127/ Sun, 12 May 2019 16:25:36 -0400 From Charles Taylor to Marcel Gauchet, theorists of the social imaginary have given us new ways
to talk about the shared structures of meanings and practices of the West. Theorists of this group
have argued against the narrow horizons of meaning that are deployed by deliberative political
theories in developing their basic normative concepts…[Read more]

]]> 0 0c4d36ebc015b2843fc16af9799fa120 Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited ZéroDécès in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640011/ Fri, 10 May 2019 16:26:08 -0400 ZéroDécès est un poème numérique inspiré du transhuamnisme. Même que le transhumanisme rende tout possible par l’intermédiaire de la technologie, le poète croit que Dieu est toujours le Tout-Puissant.

]]> 0 4ef5a5f24ad278ae52138a20ab8482a7 Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Véritologie in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640001/ Fri, 10 May 2019 16:25:45 -0400 Véritologie est un poème numérique qui explique la vraie origine de la vérité.

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