The Notes Taken

In Society against the State , Pierre Clastres writes, from its beginnings our culture has conceived of political power in terms of hierar...

Symposium has published my review of Martin Breaugh, Christopher Holman, Rachel Magnusson, Paul Mazzocchi, and Devin Penner (eds.), Thinki...

I know that things have been quiet here at The Notes Taken . The easiest way to summarize this state of affairs is to say: I have several p...

As part of my research on Jacques Rancière, I have been reading up on liberal discussions of human rights. What I've read confirms Todd ...

As part of my self-education in Africana philosophy, I've taken to teaching portions of W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk in ...

Peter Gratton has found an exemplary specimen of reactionary republicanism. Today's Der Spiegel has an article by Herfried Münkler ent...

Last summer, I spent some time reading through Capital , volume 1. This summer, my reading list is in large part organized around preparing ...

Here's another way to look at the critique of Agamben found in the previous post . The turn to theology, especially the St-Paul cottage ...

It is now 2011. I thought it would be great to reflect on how much has changed in the world during the past several decades. This post of 19...

The late comedian George Carlin died in June 2008. Carlin was funny but also very political in his content. In his interviews he pulled no p...

Wrong Arithmetic has posted a rough translation of Jacques Rancière's recent talk "Racisme, une passion d'en haut" ( deli...

Some people live interesting lives, but write uninteresting works. Some people live uninteresting lives, but write interesting works. Henry ...

The July-August issue of Monthly Review contains a translation of Marta Harnecker's Latin America and Twenty-First Century Socialism : ...

My friend Ideas Man has written a sharp essay on the Creation Museum, built near the Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky border, in the suburbs of ...

(Verso, 2006) Unsurprisingly, Canadian mainstream media is near unanimous in its reading of this weekend's G20 protests. The basic pi...

When looking at the cops, the protesters, and the politicians, I think we ought to keep in mind Bertolt Brecht's well-known quip: What i...

(D&M, 2007) In the early 90s, Ishmael Beah was a bright and promising youngster displaced by the Sierra Leone Civil War. He wandered t...

On The Notes Taken , our references to Tariq Ali have discussed his critique of American foreign policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan , and, m...

In this brief clip the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, calls Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez "brother."...

One of the most interesting documentary films I have watched is "Welcome to North Korea." The only problem I have with it is that ...