Research Seminar: Committee on Globalization and Social Change
The theme for 2012-2013 is “Temporalities” – My specific interest is in rethinking the chronological categories of modernity, now that the trajectory of progress, western style, has been discredited by global developments, when, far from catching up with the West, non-western populations are showing us the way.
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The course I am teaching this semester is entitled Horizontal Democracy. Next fall, under the title Critical Reason: the Basics, I am considering a course on Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. It’s a difficult book to teach, too long, too fragmented, but it can be rewarding if people already have their clear reasons for wanting to […]
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Research Seminar: Committee on Globalization and Social Change
The theme for 2012-2013 is “Temporalities” – My specific interest is in rethinking the chronological categories of modernity, now that the trajectory of progress, western style, has been discredited by global developments, when, far from catching up with the West, non-western populations are showing us the way.
