CGSC is a transdisciplinary working group committed to reflecting critically on the relationship between contemporary transformations typically associated with globalization and the political futures that may be opened or obstructed by them.
John Holloway's latest book, Crack Capitalism, argues that radical change can only come about through the creation, expansion and multiplication of 'cracks' in the capitalist system. These cracks are ordinary moments or spaces of rebellion in which we assert a different type of doing. [read more»]
ROGER BERKOWITZ is Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Ethical and Political Thinking at Bard College, where he is Associate Professor of Political Studies and Human Rights. He is the author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition. [read more»]
Land of Destiny (2010, 80 min.): A hard-working petrochemical town is rocked by revelations that its workers suffer an epidemic of cancers. But even more terrifying is the looming spectre of deindustrialization and joblessness. [read more»]
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