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.
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticleLaclau 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.
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticleCrisis: 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.
View ArticleHyperreality
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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