Columns
New in Ceasefire, Sister Outsider - Sunday, May 6, 2012 0:00 - 5 Comments
Sister Outsider | The Politics of Misrecognition: on Mona Eltahawy’s ‘Why Do They Hate Us’
In her first column for Ceasefire, Hana Riaz responds to 'Why Do They Hate Us", the controversial piece published last week by Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy.
In Theory, New in Ceasefire - Friday, May 4, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments
An A to Z of Theory | Jean Baudrillard: from production to reproduction
In this week's column, political theorist Andrew Robinson examines the importance of reproduction in Jean Baudrillard's theory of capitalism.
In Theory, New in Ceasefire - Friday, April 27, 2012 18:00 - 0 Comments
An A to Z of Theory | Jean Baudrillard: The Code
In the latest essay in his series on Jean Baudrillard, Andrew Robinson continues his exploration of the French thinker's critique and expansion of Marx's theory of alienation with an account of Baudrillard's theory of the capitalist code.
In Theory, New in Ceasefire - Friday, April 20, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments
An A to Z of Theory | Jean Baudrillard: Marx and Alienation – Draft 2
Baudrillard, like Marx, based his work on the critique of alienation and the rejection of capitalism. Why, then, is Baudrillard rarely considered a Marxist thinker? In the latest instalment in his 14-part series, Andrew Robinson examines Baudrillard's theory of alienation and his critique of Marx.
New in Ceasefire, The Anti-Imperialist - Sunday, April 15, 2012 10:05 - 0 Comments
The Anti-Imperialist | To self-police police racism is to perpetuate it
As further evidence emerges of police racism in the UK, Adam Elliott-Cooper uncovers a pattern of consistent failings by the Independent Police Complaint Commission to meaningfully hold the police to account.
In Theory, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, April 14, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments
An A to Z of Theory | Jean Baudrillard: Critique of Alienation – Draft 1
In the third instalment of his 14-part introduction to the work of Jean Baudrillard, Andrew Robinson explores the French thinker's book 'The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures', and explains Baudrillard's view that consumption is a socially-imposed duty.
New in Ceasefire, On Corporate Power - Tuesday, April 3, 2012 12:00 - 1 Comment
On Corporate Power | Of Pink Ribbons and Philanthropy
In this month's column, Michael Barker addresses the commercialisation of the breast cancer movement which, as highlighted in Samantha King's recent book 'Pink Ribbons, Inc', has turned a personal tragedy into a "market-driven industry of survivorship".
In Theory, New in Ceasefire - Friday, March 30, 2012 12:00 - 0 Comments
An A to Z of Theory | Jean Baudrillard: The Rise of Capitalism & the Exclusion of Death
In the second of his series of essays on Baudrillard, Andrew Robinson examines how the French thinker saw 'symbolic exchange' giving way to capitalist alienation, and discusses Baudrillard's intriguing proposition that alienation stems from the social exclusion of death.
Beautiful Transgressions, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:53 - 8 Comments
Beautiful Transgressions | And Still We Rise: On the Violence of Marketisation in Higher Education
In the first of two articles on the violence of marketisation in higher education, Sara Motta ruptures the discourse which seeks to normalise these processes in order to "reject and rebel against the acts of misnaming and misshaping [as a means to] produce a different set of parameters" for re-imagining a critical education.
New in Ceasefire, On Corporate Power - Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:00 - 3 Comments
On Corporate Power | White Philanthropy For Black (Mis)education
Michael Barker looks at the central, highly ideological, role played over the past 150 years by US white philanthropists in shaping education policies for blacks, promoting the freedom of the few to exploit others, and the freedom of the many to endure it.
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