Horizontalism within and against Academia, Unions, and Non-Profits
Drawing on organizing experiences in Seattle and the University of Washington, Ariel speaks of tensions in horizontalist movements. Within the…
The Rebirth of the Chicago Teachers Union and Possibilities for a Counter-Hegemonic Education Movement
For nine days in September, Chicago belonged to the teachers, school paraprofessionals, and clinicians. On September 10, 2012, 26,000 members…
A critique of captial (1): The problem with economics
Hitherto philosophers have had the solution of all riddles lying in their writing-desks, and the stupid, exoteric world had only…
Universiteit biedt onvoldoende ruimte voor discussie
Kees Visser en Noor Kuijpers (Kritische Studenten Amsterdam) bekritiseren de ja-knikkers van de UvA die IMF-hoofd Lagarde, ECB-baas Draghi en…
Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze
This is a transcript of a 1972 conversation between the post-structuralist philosophers Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, which discusses the…
1 of may: The story of May Day
“THERE WILL be a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.” Those were…
To the Dogs: Companion speciesism and the new feminist materialism
By Manuela Rossini , Kritikos V.3 September 2006. Introduction: Matter Matters Feminist productions in the fields of literary, cultural…
The Social Construction of Gender
I’ve been involved in a number of conversations lately about the social construction of gender, and it occurs to me…
In Praise of Idleness – Bertrand Russel (1932)
Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: ‘Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to…
“Het Maagdenhuis als profit-center”
“Bij de UvA krijgen de banken garanties van het universiteitsbestuur, terwijl werknemers en studenten het nakijken hebben. Het aantal studenten per professor…