The Slought Foundation has recently posted audio recordings of some of the lectures from the conference “American World Literature” (2/5-6/2016) to its website. Click here to listen to my presentation on “Writing Revolution: Whitman’s Literary Democracy,” as well as to lectures by Emily Apter, Aaron Jaffe and Tracy McNulty.
“Is Censorship Proof of Art’s Political Power?” was just published in the Los Angeles Review of Books‘ “The Philosophical Salon.” A special thanks to Patricia Vieira and Michael Marder for their work curating this important platform.
Excerpt: “Does not the very existence of censorship prove, in reverse so to speak, that art is a sociopolitical force to be reckoned with? In other words, if censorship exists, isn’t it because aesthetics is perceived — at least by those in power — as a very real threat to the social and political order? […read more]”
An excerpt from my essay, “Eros of Inquiry: An Aperçu of Castoriadis’ Life and Work,” was just published here in Persian, thanks to Rahman Bouzari. This article was originally published as the introduction to the book on the left, and a more recent version is forthcoming in the book on the right.
A Persian translation, by Rahman Bouzari, of my op-ed in Counterpunch “Media Blackout on Nuit Debout,” was just published in Shargh Newspaper. Click here to read page 1 and here to read page 2.
My satirical op-ed, “Corporate Idiocracy and the Manufacturing of ProducTrump,” was just published in CounterPunch, along with excellent articles by Patrick Cockburn, Barbara MacLean, Ralph Nader and many others. Click here to read.
Excerpt: “Let us not […] utter the dummy’s name but instead call for a general moratorium on it. It is time to recognize it for what it is—a product of the media-money complex—and talk only of productrump, or more simply product rump. […] We must not forget that it is the system, not the person, that is the ultimate problem. In fact, there is not really a person here. There is productRump, the tail end of the corporate glitz machine, the rump of a debunk system of hype and distraction in the name of profit and power. Although this butt looms particularly large in its vulgar posturing and machismo, we must not let the backend mask what is behind it. It is only the protruding derrière of an enormous network of media-cracy—i.e. mediocrity—that has produced it [read more]”.
I was recently interviewed by Burt Cohen for his show, Keeping Democracy Alive. Our discussion focused on the Nuit Debout movement and the Anglophone media blackout. The podcast is available here.
I was recently interviewed for Julia Migne’s article “The Rise of Nuit Debout.”
I just published an opinion piece, entitled “Media Blackout on Nuit Debout,” in Counterpunch‘s weekend edition, alongside excellent articles by Rob Urie, Carol Miller, Jeffrey St. Clair and others.
“Nuit Debout is a powerful wake-up call: sleepwalkers of the world unite! It’s time to spend the night together. [click here to read more].”
GABRIEL ROCKHILL 