The Panelists The morning session of the “Scholar and Feminist” conference had addressed the question, “Why?: Feminist Analyses of the State of the World.” By the afternoon, the question had become, “How?: What Can We Do About It?” And so the afternoon session brought together four feminist activists whose work in a range of contexts … Read more
Adapted from Lisa Duggan, The Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy (Boston: Beacon Press, 2003). Overview We are living in a dangerous and uncertain time. A breakdown in multilateral cooperation in global politics, accompanying the revival of an overtly violent assertion of U.S. imperial power in the Middle East, puts the fate … Read more
Overview In the wake of the growing number of terrorist attacks on U.S. interests at home and abroad since the late 1990s, by Saudi-funded al Qaeda operatives, American neoconservatives and petroleum producers have moved quickly to explore alternative sources of oil and gas, beyond what might be extracted from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). … Read more
A Trip to Toys R Us To help me think about the state of the world, as Janet Jakobsen asked us to do, I took a trip to Toys R Us. If, as a good feminist, I believe that cultural conceptions of gender as well as discursive and iconographic representations reshape the experience and meaning … Read more
What Is the Problem? One of the problems in talking about why we are in the fix we’re in – and a major challenge for formulating an intellectual or an activist response – is agreeing on the nature and causes of our current condition. We live in a time of existential crisis in three overlapping … Read more
Overview How should feminism respond to the violence that has erupted in the wake of September 11, 2001? First, it needs to challenge the impulse to treat September 11 as a point of origin for the waves of violence that have followed in its wake. Although the singularization of this date functions as an act … Read more
Much of the analysis of the apocalyptic nature of the rhetoric discussed here was initially worked out in the preparation of an arrested piece of street theatre called “the burning bush” conceived with Michael Casey, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, and Meredith Slopen. My development of these ideas has been greatly assisted through conversations with Elizabeth Castelli and … Read more
This article is an adaptation of a larger piece, entitled “Iraq and Preemptive Self-Defense,” I wrote for inclusion in The Iraq War & Its Consequences, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, scheduled for publication in September 2003. That article, in addition to some of the elements explored here, discusses the real reasons for the invasion … Read more
Artists Ida Applebroog (Ronald Feldman Fine Arts) Gaye Chan (artist’s site) Gaye Chan (DownWind Production) Sue Coe (Galerie St. Etienne) Lisa Kahane (artist’s site) Suzanne Lacy (artist’s site) Dread Scott (artist’s site) Emna Zghal (artist’s site) Media Center for Social Media: Showcasing and Analyzing Media for Social Justice, Democracy, and Civil Society Common Dreams The Future of War: Aesthetics/Politics/TechnologiesConference held at the New … Read more
This bibliography represents only a very small sampling of available scholarship and other writing on issues of war, violence, and structures of coercion. Theoretical works, policy reports and initiatives, historical case studies, and work in arenas related to matters of violence (especially religion, gender, and ethnicity) are brought together in this bibliography. It constitutes only … Read more
