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Originally posted on constellations68:
In Memory of Ernesto Laclau I first met Ernesto Laclau in 1992, in Johannesburg. I was an MA student, studying politics intent on changing the world not merely interpreting it. I struggled though, with party lines,…

Originally posted on The Ship's (B)log:
Were you hoping to read Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, but weren’t able to get a copy before we sold out of our first batch? Rest assured, we expect more…

  Laclau’s The Rhetorical Foundations of Society – forthcoming in May from Verso. Sad this is, now, a posthumous collection… Coauthor of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy shows how rhetoric constitutes the social order The essays collected in this volume develop the … Continue reading →

Interesting read from Verso – Stefano Liberti, Land-Grabbing: Journeys in the New Colonialism. I ordered this as paper copy, and a bunch more in the Verso sale, but because of the bundled e-books was able to read this while on the road. A … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Posthegemony:
I have spent almost the entirety of my academic career reading, and responding to, Ernesto Laclau, who has died at the age of 78. Ernesto was one of the great systematic thinkers of the past fifty…

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
In the face of a UK higher education marking boycott due to start in 11 days time, universities have come forth with a new pay offer. Having unilaterally imposed a 1% rise (read:…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Thanks to Nicholas Dahmann for updating this image. According to some reports, II, 4 will not be published and the designation of Opus Dei as II, 5 may have been an error. The Use of Bodies is the last…

Originally posted on occasional links & commentary:
Ernest0 Laclau was, by all accounts, a decent, gentle man and a path-breaking scholar on the Left. I first became aware of Laclau in terms of his participation in the famous “modes of…