Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Towards a brief history of the physics of power

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Prior to Galileo and Newton’s experiments, gravity was thought to be a property of the objects affected by it, a property by which heavier o...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018

On BDS and saying no to nice things

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In June, I received a very generous -- and very flattering -- invitation:  "In the coming academic year we would like to organise in o...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

#TakeAKnee and the Conditions of Peace

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Why  # TakeAKnee  upsets people is why antifa upsets people. Bear with me. The national anthem at the beginning of NFL games means, a...
Friday, August 18, 2017

Antifa and Elephants

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In the wake of Charlottesville, the question of how best to respond to a growing and emboldened fascist movement is pressing. People, by an...
Friday, May 19, 2017

Why I am not a fan of “the radical Enlightenment”

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Invocations of Enlightenment, Reason, and Universalism too often substitute the name for the thing. Trumpeting Reason is too often a substi...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Comments on Ngugi

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I guess I am supposed to say something about Professor Ngugi's influence upon my field of political theory. I will speak prospectively,...
Friday, March 17, 2017

Response to Harvey, part 3: Socialisms, then and now

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The part of my book that Harvey most appreciates is my discussion of “Marx’s relation to Proudhon, Fourier, Saint-Simon and Robert Owen.” H...