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  • Marina Abramović & Ulay, 'Rest Energy,' 1980, performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Serbia
    Marina Abramović & Ulay, 'Rest Energy,' 1980, performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Serbia
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    Against Immunity

    A sane alternative exists to liberalism’s imagined rights to personal privacy and bodily autonomy—and to the invasive and totalizing biopolitics that is now sweeping the West

    byBlake Smith
  • Michel Foucault, March 5, 1976
    Michel Foucault, March 5, 1976
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    Biopolitics

    Michel Foucault understood that truly free people must be willing to choose death, like the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. What would he make of the restrictions on liberty in our efforts to safeguard life from COVID-19?

    byBlake Smith
  • Kenza Drider, at right, candidate for the 2012 French presidential election, talks to her spokeswoman Hind Ahmas on Dec. 12, 2011, in front of the police tribunal in Paris, after both women were fined for violating France's niqab ban. In France, a woman who repeatedly insists on appearing veiled in public can be fined 150 euros and ordered to attend re-education classes.
    Kenza Drider, at right, candidate for the 2012 French presidential election, talks to her spokeswoman Hind Ahmas on Dec. 12, 2011, in front of the police tribunal in Paris, after both women were fined for violating France's niqab ban. In France, a woman who repeatedly insists on appearing veiled in public can be fined 150 euros and ordered to attend re-education classes.
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    Islamophobia and Post-Colonial Guilt

    Pascal Bruckner’s ‘brave and necessary’ new book examines how Muslims came to be known as victims of the West

    byDavid Mikics
  • Levi-Strauss in 2005(Pascal Pavani/AFP/Getty Image)
    Levi-Strauss in 2005(Pascal Pavani/AFP/Getty Image)
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    Claude Levi-Strauss Dies

    French-Jewish founder of structuralism was 100

    byAri M. Brostoff
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