Os diálogos com as poesias escolhidas surgiram de uma
vontade de responder, com uma dose de humor e sem
perder o caráter reflexivo, aos diversos temas tratados
em outros tempos. Os poemas selecionados, ainda que
universais, foram produzidos em épocas diferentes e o
que fizemos foi atualizá-los ao nosso tempo.
Estritamente: um exercício de r…[Read more]

In his 1846 history-from-below, Le Peuple, Michelet presents himself as the embodiment of the history of France in order to reach beyond the discursive and effect social change. Unlike in many of his other histories, where an allegory of the body is used in the service of an overarching national or political narrative, the body in Le Peuple is…[Read more]

Dieser Aufsatz wartet mit einigen wahrscheinlich unerwarteten Thesen1auf:• Der rassistische Diskurs in den österreichischen Medien, wie wir ihn heute kennen, hatsich nicht schon von Anbeginn der Arbeitsmigration nach Österreich in den 1960er und70erJahren entwickelt. Er ist ein Produkt der 80erJahre.•In den 1960er und 1970erJahren herrschte ein p…[Read more]

This engagement highlights the antagonism between wealth and the commodity value form posed at the heart of Marx’s work. In doing so, it considers methodological possibilities for both understanding and intervening in the fabricating of new alienated capitalist values from beyond-human natures.

History of the “racial reconciliation” staged by building trades unions and President Richard Nixon, through which building trades union leaders taught Nixon how to reach out to organized labor and the white working class for the 1972 election in exchange for the President withdrawing his support for affirmative action in the construction industry.

A history of the first two years of the United Construction Workers Association (UCWA) in Seattle, Washington, and its struggle to represent black workers entering the construction industry under court order separately from organized labor and employers.

In the contemporary U.S. workplace, corporate personhood is increasingly becoming
the metaphor structuring how job seekers are supposed to present themselves as
employable. If one takes oneself to be a business, one should also take oneself to
be an entity that requires a brand. Some ethnographic questions arise when job
seekers try to embody…[Read more]

While a fundamental axiom in economics is that consumers act rationally, maximizing their utility by obeying the law of demand, it has become increasingly recognized that these individuals may make irrational decisions in situations of influence. As not all consumers have the same rationality, this study aimed to identify specific consumer…[Read more]