Teaching social theory is just plain fun. For me, it’s an opportunity to see our world in a multidimensional way. Who needs a comic book multiverse when you can look at social phenomena through ...

Wikipedia As intellectual descendants of Franz Fanon and Herbert Marcuse — forerunners to the anti-Western left — these academics unsheathed new pedagogies of deconstructionism (getting rid of ...

Nonetheless, we must establish a line demarcating protection from control, teaching from oppression, and minimal and fundamental repression from what Herbert Marcuse terms “surplus ...

Quoting Herbert Marcuse, he emphasises how digital systems align human desires with structures of domination, perpetuating passivity and conformity. Drawing on Guy Debord’s critique of spectacle ...

It became the template for everything that followed. The intellectual foundation was laid with the critical theories of Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Paolo Freire and Derek Bell, from which the ...

Steiner believed that Trotskyism could be somehow reconciled with Freudianism and the conceptions of Herbert Marcuse. The unresolved issues of politics and philosophy interacted with an extreme ...

Everybody’s talking about the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. AI’s creeping omnipresence is undeniable: it’s infiltrating every gadget and platform — from our fridges (must they really be ...

As someone who knows Paul Gottfried personally, I can confidently clarify a few points. Yes, he was under the tutelage of Herbert Marcuse, but the Old Right has a greater influence on him than Marcuse ...