Author: Kiana Taghavi
Abigail George | Cooperation Through Identity
By Abigail George Cooperation Through Identity: A Case Study of Karl Marx’s Views on Cooperation and Association During the lively discussion between Bernard E. Harcourt and Étienne Balibar, a fundamental tension over worker cooperatives in contemporary capitalism came to light.… Continue Reading
Coöperism 9/13 | READINGS
Primary Readings: Daston, Lorraine. Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate (Columbia Global Reports: 2023). Available here.
Alma Steingart
Alma Steingart is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University. She researches the interplay between politics and mathematical rationalities. Steingart’s second book manuscript, “Accountable Democracy: Mathematical Reasoning and Representative Democracy in America, 1920 to Now,” examines… Continue Reading
Nicholas Lemann
Nicholas Lemann is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and the Director of Columbia Global Reports, a book publishing venture, and Columbia World Projects, a new institution that implements academic research outside… Continue Reading
William Deringer
William Deringer is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research examines the history of those techniques and technologies of calculation that organize modern economic, financial, and political life. His work ranges widely… Continue Reading
Lorraine Daston
Lorraine Daston is director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and a permanent fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.… Continue Reading
Coöperism 10/13 | READINGS
Readings* Black Panther Party, The Ten-Point Program (Oct. 15, 1966) available at https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1966/10/15.htm Black Panther Party [The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation], The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs, ed. David Hilliard (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008) available at https://caringlabor.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/hilliard-ed-the-black-panther-party-service-to-the-people-programs.pdf… Continue Reading
Deqah Hussein-Wetzel | Reflection on “Radical Acts of Justice”
By Deqah Hussein-Wetzel Introduction There is something incredibly powerful about storytelling—about hearing a person’s raw, lived experiences in real time. Having just read about Tracy McCarter’s experience as a former Columbia School of Nursing student who was incarcerated for her… Continue Reading
Abigail George | Does a Right to Free Speech Have a Place in Cooperative Movements?
Lessons from Simone Weil and American Jurisprudence By Abigail George Freedom of expression—increasingly politicized and applied selectively—is an enigma. Enshrined in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, it is a hallmark of libertarian and neoliberal American capitalism and has… Continue Reading