The signs and symptoms of disease do something more than signify the functioning of our bodies: they also signify critically sensitive and contradictory components of our culture and social relations. Yet, in our standard medical practices this social “language” emanating from our bodies is manipulated by concealing it within the realm of biological signs. I try to show this by means of a patie...

CRITERIA IN CRISIS: MODERNIST, POSTMODERNIST, AND FEMINIST CRITICAL PRACTICES FEBRUARY 1999 MARY ANN SUSHINSKY, B.A. KENT STATE UNIVERSITY M.A., CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor Ann Ferguson I examine a problem or dilemma of legitimation faced by the critical theorist who takes as the object of his or her critique a totality of which s...

The rigidity of early class analysis and the recent demise of any type of class analytics have turned attention away from examining the growing population of informally employed workers as a class. By not examining informal workers as a class “in themselves,” we are losing insights into how they are translating their positions into a class “for themselves.” As a consequence, the recent literatu...

This article explores the relationship of Foucault to Marxism. Although he was often critical of Marxism, Foucault’s own approach bears striking parallels to Marxism, as a form of method, as an account of history, and as an analysis of social structure. Like Marxism, Foucault represents social practices as transitory and all knowledge and intellectual formations as linked to social relations an...

Dear comrade Nick Beams, I am a passionate supporter of the WSWS and ICFI.... The main reason I am writing to you is that ... I have discovered serious problems in the ICFI’s position in the field of Classical Political Economy. Otherwise, I consider the ICFI’s perspective to be almost perfect. The field where it is most vulnerable is Political Economy, since, in my opinion, any scholar trained...

Central concepts of contemporary life such as politics, civilization, and citizenship derive from the city’s form and social organization. The city expresses the socio-spatial division of labor, and Henri Lefèbvre proposes to view its transformation within a continuum from the political city to the urban, whereby it completes its domination over the countryside. The city’s transformation into t...

Capitalism has always had winners and losers, losers have been unevenly distributed among particular groups. From the beginning, people of color capitalism’s biggest victims made up a disproportionate number poor. Even before Reagan–Thatcher era, conservative cheerleaders for capitalism justified uneven distributions markets by blaming victims. In United States, example, according to famous Moy...

In the established landscape of research in social sciences, populism is seen as a type politics that chiefly revolves around distinction between “people” and “elite”.1 Within this, different forms can be distinguished—ranging from right-wing authoritarian to liberal-centrist religious varieties. camp political left, often cast essentially democratic endeavor. Drawing on conception inclusive pe...

Este livro de título instigante, lançado pelo consagrado físico e educador Luís Carlos Menezes, é, sobretudo, provocadoramente atual em suas reflexões. Sem que saibamos todos os detalhes dos percalços adversidades, continuamos aqui, seres humanos filhos do caos. Sobreviventes várias versões mutações, alfa a ômicron. Um pêndulo parece oscilar entre passado presente, revelando as estratégias sobr...

The fate of workers in the face of globalization has been much decried and debated, but usually from the wrong angle. The focus of conventional discussion is almost always on labor markets and the woes of international wage competition. In critical approaches, the miracle of global capital mobility and the power of transnational corporations come in for the most attention, for their presumed ro...