...in This Is an Uprising. In the Englers’ version, this regime change is primarily attributable to Otpor, a “leaderless” student group from Serbia. Otpor promoted nonviolence in the Sharpian model,...
...uses the ideology of work nor the equally vague discussion of "ideological goods." Even on that terrain, this version is less interesting than others in the critica radicale current or...
...With regard to the modern West, Girard elaborates a revised version of the secularization thesis associated with Max Weber and Émile Durkheim. He correlates the rise of techno-scientific rationality and...
...respected. In this version of Kenyan un-memory, Kasarani incarnates Moi’s greatness. Yet, the term “reign” suggests, more aptly, the nature of power being celebrated: autocratic, history-erasing, disposability-proliferating. It should have...
...retreat we sang a contemporary collaborative version of the song “I’m gonna lay down my burdens down by the riverside” and left behind those practices, relationships and contexts that we...
...of Nazi power, before the full development of Nazi law. It is a horrific scene. This complex novel feels at times like an accusation, at times like an apologia (Keilson...
...have more agency and comparable social status. The power discrepancy is what makes bullying especially devastating. I appreciate the distinction between “drama” and “bullying,” because it creates a spectrum of...
The normalization of disability as an empowered status purportedly recognized by the state is produced through the creation and sustaining of debilitation on a mass scale
...beauty standards literally allots you more power and status, and that these same beauty preferences compel folks to offer more opportunities to already powerful people. Power, beauty and the interpersonal...
...changed his company’s name to Sanrio from Yamanashi Silk Prefecture once he realized the power of branding: “If you attach added value or design to the product, they sell in...
...of the petition derives from this unequal distribution of political power. Consider the “Olive Branch Petition,” sent by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 in the hopes of avoiding war...
...something clicks for Steve, he checks if the domain name is available. Steve bought notvogue.com immediately without any project in mind. Months passed, the URL lay dormant. In February 2011,...