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What Should the Left Propose?

While in Italy I read a new book from Brazilian political theorist Roberto Mangabeira Unger called What Should the Left Propose? I don’t tend to identify with the label “left” these days (and certainly not “right”!) but I’m still interested in what different thinkers are coming up with as they try to grapple with this […]

Cambridge Conference

At King’s College, Cambridge, England, April 29, 2006

Started out my trip by going to Cambridge to attend a conference on “Class Composition, Immaterial Labor and New Social Subjects”, which was ironically held under the bemused gaze of a bust of John Maynard Keynes.

What became clear even before the conference, but really […]

Local and Global

I’ve been up to my eyeballs organizing the big “Slow Food Feast of Fools and Friends” this past Sunday, and I’m happy to say, it was a huge hit! I even got pied at the end of the evening! You shoulda been there… I gave a brief introduction to the event, emphasizing that this is […]