Alex Means and Paul Aitken are collaborating on a project to discuss and review Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Commonwealth, the third installment of their “Empire Trilogy.” aimed at (1) an excavation of some productive criticisms/limitations of Hardt and Negri’s project; (2) the creation of something new by thinking with and against Hardt and Negri.

The new globalised company produces an ethical discourse based on confidence among the parties involved, respect for human rights, responsibility to the community and the environment … Social, labour and environmental rights are thus displaced towards soft, non-normative regulatory systems.

It is often pointed out by liberals that caste is nonexistent in urban centres, thus leading to the belief that industrialisation and urbanisation are solutions to this problem. However, we need to cast a sideways glance.

Academic discourse and university departments are disproportionately geared towards training students to work in such a transmission-orientated environment rather than educating them as to how to engage critically with such a system.

A study of Hindi newspaper Hindustan’s page, “Remixed” reveals the positioning of the citizen subject as consumer who is caught in the tussle between the (unproblematic) march of new ideas due to economic changes. In the process, the Remixed collapses the complex role of language in the citizen’s life into one single dimension: that of a consumer.

The mother of Public Enemy No. 1 Abdus Subhan Qureshi, Zubaida Qureshi became national news when she appeared in public to appeal for calm, reason, and justice — not just for her son, but also for those killed in the blasts. A quick study of media representations.

Chengara is a little known place in Kerala that symbolises the perverse logic of “reforms” in India. So while the west celebrates India’s ascendancy and the Indian middle class fawns over its arrival on the global stage, the manner in which “reforms” are being delivered demands moral accountability from citizen benefiting from the reforms.

A media report on technology in India reveals how it imagines technology as a horror. Thus, the wireless serves as a metaphor for modern, technologically advancing, urban nation and how it remains threatened from (Muslim) insiders against the project of India.

In an exclusive interview on video Slavoj Žižek expounds on his book “Violence”. Here he tackles five questions: a) What does he mean by violence; b) Why has god been extracted by the concept of divine violence; c) What is the violence inherent in multi-culturalism; d) Has all ideology ended?; e) Why does he not provide solutions?

Subaltern Studies is proud to present the video of Zizek’s lecture on his book Violence at the University of Leeds. Expounds on violence in all its dimensions, he introduces aspects that got left out in the book. The lecture was organised by the International Journal of Zizek Studies.