Birth: September 18, 1943
Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism that creates the ….
Everyone is now considered a potential terrorist, providing a rational for both the government and private corporations to spy on anybody, regardless….
The domestic war against "terrorists" [code for young protesters] provides new opportunities for major defense contractors and corporations who are b….
Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And if we take that index a….
This is a moment in our history - that we can thank neoliberalism for - that has really destroyed what Hannah Arendt called "the virtue of thoughtful….
Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us..
Occupy did something fabulous. What Occupy made clear was that there is an inequality at the heart of American democracy that undermines it, if not r….
The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense tha….
Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or….
All of this in [Donald] Trump now has become so overt that it's difficult when we talk about repression not to talk about white supremacy, not to tal….
Under neoliberalism everyone has to negotiate their fate alone, bearing full responsibility for problems that are often not of their own doing. The i….
We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy..
With the rise of new technologies, media, and other cultural apparatuses as powerful forms of public pedagogy, students need to understand and addres….
Informing people about the world's problems opens up the possibility to address them and change them. Anything else is simply willful ignorance. I me….
[Ruling elie] haven't given up on neoliberal ideology, they use it. And I think they've normalized that ideology, the notion that, for instance, that….
Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as well as new internat….
It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open..
When we talk about total war, and we talk about war zones, and we talk about the breakdown of the cities, when you exclude questions of race from tha….
You don't have any vestige of democracy in this country. A report recently came out of Princeton University claiming that, of all the policies that h….
Economics now drives politics. This gives us a system in which the relationship between power and politics is no longer fused. Power is global. We ha….
The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion..