Note: This was the system I proposed, tongue-in-cheek (I missed), last year for the Hugos (for the noms process, not the actual vote). It...

Any Member of Parliament could be elected on the following manifesto: "In Parliament, and in all my work with the public, and before ...

Underappreciated authors: over at SF Signal , some interesting-sounding leads to chase up. I'm stunned-not-stunned nobody mentioned the ...

"Now, with the death of communism and social democracy's struggle to sustain its postwar gains, the idea of the whole of humanity a...

But, on the other hand, the other is whoever or whatever has a power over me without reciprocity. This is demonstrated in Spectres of Marx ,...

As usual, my emphases / underlinings / paragraphs. Democracy to come thus cannot be a community of substitutable persons. In other words, ...

Some consequences can be drawn from this regarding the mode of existence of the demos. On the one hand, the power of the demos is nothing bu...

To understand dissensus from an aesthetic point of view is to understand it from a point of view that neutralizes the ethical rule of the di...

This brief analysis brings us to what I call the aesthetics of politics. Here too the alternative is between an ethical and an aesthetic per...

On the one hand, there is the sociological criticism that saw an ignorance of the social law of the ethos. Pierre Bourdieu’s work epitomizes...

To the extent that a power is political, the rulers rule on the ultimate ground that there is no reason why they should rule. [...] the po...