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Saturday, September 20, 2025

Art as Resistance: Adorno and the Autonomy of Aesthetic Form

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The paradox of autonomy For Theodor W. Adorno , one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, art’s power lies in its autonom...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Julian Go: Postcolonial Drag: Performance, Identity, and the Politics of the Global Fringe

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Julian Go’s Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory (2016) is, on the surface, an academic map: a genealogy of postcolonial theory ’s waves ...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Symbolic Power and Symbolic Violence: Bourdieu’s Subtle Weapons of Domination

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Power does not always look like power. It does not only appear in police forces, armies, or financial markets. Often, it works silently—thro...

Distinction, Taste, and Class Today: Revisiting Bourdieu’s Classic Insight

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Why do some people enjoy opera while others prefer pop concerts? Why does one group savor fine wine while another loves fast food? At first ...

Education as Reproduction—and Resistance: Bourdieu on Schools and Inequality

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Few institutions appear as neutral and meritocratic as schools. They promise opportunity, reward talent, and proclaim fairness. Yet Pierre B...

Reflexivity in Bourdieu’s Sociology: A Method, Not Just a Mindset

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One of Pierre Bourdieu’s most distinctive contributions to sociology was his insistence on reflexivity . For him, reflexivity was not a fash...

When Habits Fall Behind: Bourdieu’s Concept of Hysteresis

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What happens when our deeply ingrained ways of thinking and acting no longer match the world around us? Pierre Bourdieu , the French sociolo...