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Duncan Stuart

Duncan Stuart is an Australian writer living in New York City. His writings have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, Overland, Jacobin Magazine and The Cleveland Review of Books. Find him on twitter @DuncanAStuart.

From the Image of Precarity to The Statement People Think

Speech is often found at the heart of debates concerning politics and the political, in particular the question of who and what counts as a speaking and rational being, and the pas...

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Futures Possible

The future is arguably the defining concern of progressive politics. We strive for a better future, and believe the present is insufficient. It is fundamentally conservative to su...

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Editorial

Make Postmodernism Great Again: On the Ills of Blaming Theory for Trump

With the election of Donald Trump, the vote for Brexit and the rise of right wing populism, we have supposedly entered the post-truth era. Truth is not only under suspicion, it is ...

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Feature

Bearing Witness: Three Digressions Through Art

Modern identity politics is often denigrated; depicted as an irrational mass shouting defiantly about their experiences; a moment of politics that erases the good old fashion postu...

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The Clamour of Political Beings

Politics is a noisy place. This can be seen its everyday machinations: parliamentary speeches, the bustle of protests, various heated discussion on the value of free speech. This e...

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The Greek Crisis: A Democratic Deficit

Introduction The Greek debt currently totals somewhere around 240 billion euros. Throughout what has come to be called the Greek debt crisis, the actions of the European Union has ...

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