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Month: November 2014

Waiting for Ferguson

November 22, 2014 Leigh M. Johnson Ferguson, Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive 2 Comments

We continue awaiting the decision of a grand jury on whether or not to indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer, who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, exactly 15 weeks ago today on a suburban street in Ferguson, Missouri. News reporters from across the globe have been camped out in Ferguson for…

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Missing: An Image of “The Worker” Today

November 13, 2014 Leigh M. Johnson 99%, Marx, Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive 3 Comments

This semester I have the very good fortune of teaching a graduate course in the History of Theory and Criticism at Memphis College of Art. (Check out my syllabus here and the class blog here.) For their final projects, my students are required to employ one of the theories we studied during the semester to present a…

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