Tocqueville ’21: Pondering the Future
We held our first editorial meeting the morning after the attack on the US Capitol. This is a blog dedicated to exploring twentieth-first century democracy, and while much about the […]
MoreRevue de Presse: October 25
For the past several weeks, Charlie Hebdo columnist and novelist Yannick Haenel, together with the cartoonist François Boucq, has been chronicling the trials of alleged accomplices of the 2015 attackers against […]
MoreDemocracy’s Future: Philosophy and Queerness as Ways of Death
The Covid-19 epidemic has me feeling stuck. I’m held in place by confinement, border closures and quarantines, and held in time by the deferral, or cancellation, of the future—a year’s […]
MoreIsolation, Loneliness, and Solitude: Hannah Arendt’s Triumvirate
Is it still I that burns there all alone? Unrecognizable? memories denied? O life, o life: being outside. And I in flames—no one is left—unknown. —Rainer Maria Rilke, Komm […]
MoreRevue de Presse: 17 mai
La Poste est immortalisée dans le premier article de la Constitution américaine, et Tocqueville a même parcouru une partie de son voyage à travers l’Amérique dans une calèche postale. Mais […]
MoreRuins and Renewal: An Interview with Wendy Brown
To conclude our book forum on In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West (Columbia University Press, 2019), we spoke with Wendy Brown about some of the key questions […]
MoreBeyond the Ruins
This is the first post in our review forum of Wendy Brown’s In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West (Columbia University Press, 2019). With […]
MoreThe Company and The Banisters We Keep
“Dear Gerhard, … Your letter contains a number of uncontroversial claims—uncontroversial because they are quite simply wrong. I’ll begin with them so we can move on to the issues worth […]
MoreSophia Rosenfeld replies to her readers
This is the follow-up to our book forum on Sophia Rosenfeld’s Democracy and Truth: A Short History. Is it odd to begin by saying that I am thrilled with the […]
MoreDémocratie et mensonges
Ceci est le quatrième compte-rendu de notre table ronde sur Democracy and Truth : A Short History par Sophia Rosenfeld. À bien des égards, Democracy and Truth : A Short […]
MoreComment l’élite militaire se pense dans le nouveau jeu de temporalités
Olivia Leboyer est docteur en science politique et enseigne à Sciences Po Paris. Sa thèse a été publiée en 2012, Elite et Libéralisme, CNRS éditions. Ses recherches actuelles portent sur […]
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