Too many academics for too long have turned their backs on addressing important social issues.
Activism
Student protests have risen in the wake of the government’s plans to make society pay for the economic crisis.
Students are recognizing that it is crucial to struggle for the university as a democratic public sphere.
Within a very short time, Occupy Wall Street has changed the national conversation to corporate corruption.
Counterpublic spheres and modes of resistance that we once did not think young people could mount have erupted in a rush of emotional and political expressions.
The state has already understood a fact that the Left has struggled to accept: misogynists make great informants.
“The present is a period of riots,” writes Alain Bertho.