Abstract:In August 2020, Aliuane Thiam—better known as Akon, the Senegalese-American R&B crooner famous for his early 2000s Top 40 hits—placed the first stone on a site where he plans to build a $6 billion city. Surrounded by government officials, Akon promised that the city, audaciously named after himself, would bring tourism and jobs to Senegal—and that it would run on Akoin, his proposed cryptocurrency. Two years later, Akon City remains just a stone and a plaque in an empty field. Its ethos is similarly vacant. The city's official website provides few real answers about its purpose, and instead features 3D-rendered visuals of curvilinear, phallic buildings that droop and fold against a foreboding sunset.
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Alyssa Battistoni, T. Shenk, David Shor, N. Singh, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Abstract:Across the left, it seems like we can all agree that politics today feels miserable. But how did we get here? And what should democratic socialists do about it? Those questions are at the heart of the following conversation, featuring some of the sharpest thinkers on the left today. The transcript of that discussion has been edited for clarity and length
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Abstract:Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work has made it possible for abolitionist concepts to resonate widely, enlivening collective imaginations about how life might be lived without mass punishment. But abolition itself remains, for many even on the political left, a perplexing concept: Why "abolish," rather than reform, violent and racist institutions? Why embrace abolition when media and political elites insist that "crime" is the dominant social problem of the moment? And what does abolitionist organizing have to do with struggles that seem far removed from the prison industrial complex and its deadly force?
{"title":"Abolition as Method","authors":"K. Gabriel","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0086","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work has made it possible for abolitionist concepts to resonate widely, enlivening collective imaginations about how life might be lived without mass punishment. But abolition itself remains, for many even on the political left, a perplexing concept: Why \"abolish,\" rather than reform, violent and racist institutions? Why embrace abolition when media and political elites insist that \"crime\" is the dominant social problem of the moment? And what does abolitionist organizing have to do with struggles that seem far removed from the prison industrial complex and its deadly force?","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"23 1","pages":"145 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82237474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Black inhabitants of the South did not respond uniformly to the rules and folkways of Jim Crow, nor do they see its demise in quite the same way. Two recent books use the authority of testimony to demonstrate this plurality. Adolph L. Reed Jr.'s The South and Imani Perry's South to America are both outstanding contributions to an ongoing debate about how to evaluate Southern culture, identity, and politics.
摘要:南方的黑人居民对吉姆·克劳的规则和习俗的反应并不一致，他们也不以完全相同的方式看待它的消亡。最近的两本书利用证词的权威来证明这种多元性。Adolph L. Reed Jr.的《南方》和Imani Perry的《从南方到美国》都是对如何评价南方文化、身份和政治的持续辩论的杰出贡献。
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Abstract:Ling Ma might be best known as the writer who predicted COVID-19. Her debut novel, Severance, which came out in the summer of 2018, is about a global pandemic originating from a virus in China. Set amid the backdrop of total social collapse, Severance follows the desultory wanderings of Candace Chen, a twenty-something Chinese American millennial who works a monotonous office job and lives in Brooklyn. After the virus functionally turns everyone into zombies, Candace decides to move into her office—dissolving the boundary between leisure and labor by working from home (or, rather, by making the workplace her home). During the start of lockdown, many readers fixated on how the novel's sciencefictional premise eerily resembled our own world. Severance had captured, with uncanny realism, the surprisingly mundane experience of living in a pandemic under late capitalism
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abstract:States, and the interests of states as defined by state establishments, are central to every variety of realism in international affairs. A concentration on state interests allows the leader or analyst to distinguish between what another country's establishment sees as its secondary and vital interests--in other words, those interests on which it will be willing to compromise, and those on which it will never compromise, and for which in the last resort it is prepared to fight.
{"title":"Arguments on the Left: The Ethics of Realism","authors":"A. Lieven","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0052","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:States, and the interests of states as defined by state establishments, are central to every variety of realism in international affairs. A concentration on state interests allows the leader or analyst to distinguish between what another country's establishment sees as its secondary and vital interests--in other words, those interests on which it will be willing to compromise, and those on which it will never compromise, and for which in the last resort it is prepared to fight.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"24 1","pages":"67 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83377760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:In 1919, the New York Times printed a number of reports on behalf of the US Department of Justice related to the scourge of "Bolshevism" supposedly taking root among the country's Black population.In one, titled "Exhibit No. 10: Radicalism and Sedition Among the Negroes as Reflected in their Publications," the DOJ claimed: "there can no longer be any question of a well-concerted movement among a certain class of Negro leaders of thought and action to constitute themselves a determined and persistent source of radical opposition to the Government, and to the established rule of law and order." Proof that "Soviet doctrines" had taken hold among the Black intelligentsia, the office said, could be found in periodicals like the Liberator, a socialist magazine that had recently published a poem titled "If We Must Die" by the Jamaican-born writer Claude McKay. the report, writes historian Winston James in his new book, Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik, "explicitly mentioned McKay and his poem more than any other person or piece of writing" in its roundup of seditious Black literature.
1919年，《纽约时报》代表美国司法部发表了一系列关于“布尔什维克主义”祸害在美国黑人中扎根的报道。在其中一份题为《证物10:出版物中反映的黑人中的激进主义和叛乱》的文件中，司法部声称:“在某一阶层的黑人思想和行动领袖中，再也不存在任何协调一致的运动，使他们自己成为坚决和持久的激进反对政府、反对既定法治和秩序的来源。”该办公室表示，“苏联学说”已经在黑人知识分子中扎根的证据，可以在《解放者》(Liberator)等期刊上找到。《解放者》是一份社会主义杂志，最近发表了牙买加出生的作家克劳德·麦凯(Claude McKay)的一首名为《如果我们必须死》(If We Must Die)的诗。历史学家温斯顿·詹姆斯(Winston James)在他的新书《克劳德·麦凯:一个黑人布尔什维克的形成》(Claude McKay: the Making of a Black Bolshevik)中写道，在对煽动性黑人文学的综述中，这份报告“明确提到麦凯和他的诗比其他任何人或作品都多”。
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abstract:"Can sanctions really stop Putin?" the editors of the New York Times asked in April. It's a question on many minds as sanctions and military assistance to Ukraine have become principal means of trying to halt Russian aggression. Addressing the question requires assessing the measures now in place and understanding what sanctions can and cannot accomplish.
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abstract:Two months ago, when I wrote "A Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv," I hoped that the shock of the Russian invasion and the voices of the Ukrainian left would push Western leftists to reconsider their approach. Unfortunately, too many of them have failed to do so. In their analyses of the war, Ukrainians are just victims in need of humanitarian aid, not subjects with desires that should be respected.
{"title":"Self-Determination and the War in Ukraine","authors":"Taras Bilous","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0056","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Two months ago, when I wrote \"A Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv,\" I hoped that the shock of the Russian invasion and the voices of the Ukrainian left would push Western leftists to reconsider their approach. Unfortunately, too many of them have failed to do so. In their analyses of the war, Ukrainians are just victims in need of humanitarian aid, not subjects with desires that should be respected.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"205 1","pages":"44 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77049306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:"The only important thing is the unification of the people," Donald Trump said about his 2016 presidential campaign, "because the other people don't mean anything." In this vision, politics is a battle to the finish, and the sides are morally unequal. One side--his side, "the people"--belongs here. The other side, "the other people," doesn't belong.
{"title":"Who Are the People?","authors":"Jedediah S. Britton-Purdy","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0058","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:\"The only important thing is the unification of the people,\" Donald Trump said about his 2016 presidential campaign, \"because the other people don't mean anything.\" In this vision, politics is a battle to the finish, and the sides are morally unequal. One side--his side, \"the people\"--belongs here. The other side, \"the other people,\" doesn't belong.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"48 1","pages":"86 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88404003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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