Revolutionary Love: An Interview with George Katsiaficas
Recent Campus Occupations: History Repeated
There is much of the current protest movement that is new, yet the way in which it suddenly arose and became widespread has a remarkable similarity to the 1970 nationwide university strike in the United States.
Aesthetic and Political Avant-Gardes
Avant-garde refers to people seeking to transform aesthetic and political developments in society. The tension between the political and the aesthetic in avant gardes is significant and valuable; political activists can learn a great deal from the impact of aesthetic movements.
Love & Rage: The Eros Effect and Spontaneous Combustion by H. Lazar and P. Messersmith-Glavin
Response to the book Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution
Eros and Thanatos in the Syrian Revolution
Eros and Revolution
In his later work, Marcuse concerned himself with the nexus between social movements and unconscious dimensions of human nature. He understood Nature (including instincts) as an “ally” in the revolutionary process. In this paper, I seek to explore his insight through the concept of the "eros effect,"