El trabajo analiza el vínculo entre afectos y manipulación tal como ha sido concebido por uno de los abordajes canónicos sobre fenómeno peronista –el Gino Germani– la teoría del populismo Ernesto Laclau. En ese marco, se ofrece una serie precisiones conceptuales que sitúan distintos aspectos debates suscitados ambas obras e interrogan estatuto conceptual afectividad en procesos subjetivación. A...

This article addresses implications for democracy of two interconnected developments involving big data and the media. One is the targeting of consumers for advertising by marketers and the new data-capture industry that supports them. The other involves the transformation of advertisers’ approach to subsidizing media content production. We describe these developments and consider their consequ...

This essay stages a critical conversation between Stuart Hall and Ernesto Laclau, comparing their different appropriations of Antonio Gramsci’s theory hegemony. In the 1980s, Laclau engaged with Gramsci one another in order to conceptualize what they regarded as triangular relation rise Thatcherism, crisis Left, emergence new social movements. While many readers emphasize undeniable similaritie...

In a recent article, Gorik Ooms has drawn attention to the normative underpinnings of the politics of global health. We claim that Ooms is indirectly submitting to a liberal conception of politics by framing the politics of global health as a question of individual morality. Drawing on the theoretical works of Chantal Mouffe, we introduce a conflictual concept of the political as an alternative...