Tagged “financial-crisis”

“Post-America”: An Exchange

David Hale; Carl A. Raschke

David Hale and Carl A. Raschke exchange views on American decline, debt, empire, irony, and the uncertain line between the audacity and arrogance of hope.

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The Business of the Real and the Unreality of Business

Victor E. Taylor

Victor Taylor examines corporate failure and the 2008 economic crisis, arguing that business models conceal the Real they claim to master through metrics.

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Laclau and Democracy in Light of the Current Crisis

Daniel Douglas Miller

Daniel Douglas Miller uses Ernesto Laclau's account of democracy and populism to argue that the financial crisis demands political action, not passive hope.

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The Hinge of History, or Žižek’s “New Politics”

Carl A. Raschke

Carl A. Raschke asks whether the 2008 financial crash marks a hinge of history, testing Žižek's call for a new politics against consumer capitalism today.

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Crisis: A Liberation from Capitalism?

Creston Davis

Creston Davis interprets the 2008 financial collapse through Hegel and Badiou, arguing that crisis exposes labor's power and capitalism's hidden dependence.

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Hyperreality

Carl A. Raschke

Carl A. Raschke reads the 2008 financial crisis through Baudrillard, Mark C. Taylor, and Derrida, asking what hyperreality means for faith and democracy.

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