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Bringing Down the Master’s House Jack Halberstam on vertiginous capital and Kavanaugh

Event reportKelly KlaverNovember 7, 2018

Kelly Klaver reports from Jack Halberstam’s keynote speech to the Global Critical Pedagogies Conference. Rejecting the “master’s tools”, Halberstam applied queer strategies of resistance to contemporary concerns, from Kavanaugh to gay marriage.

Conversations in Times of Crisis Rosi Braidotti finds Critical Theory at a Crossroads

Event reportIsobel MillerSeptember 29, 2018

How do we address the very real pile-up of crises that shape our current times and threaten to overwhelm through their sheer quantity? How do we make sense of and engage with the ubiquitousness of the term ‘crisis’ itself? How can we resist encroaching neoliberalism and what place does critical theory and the academy play…