Mussolini: Parables For Today

By William E. Connolly Author, Resounding Events: Adventures of an Academic from the Working Class M. by Antonio Scurati, translated into English in 2021, is a long novelesque account of the rise of Mussolini. The 773 page text is divided into a series of three or four page sharp novelistic accounts...

January 6: Giving Insurrection a Bad Name

Steven Johnston is Neal A. Maxwell Chair in Political Theory, Public Policy, and Public Service, University of Utah and is the author of, most recently, Wonder and Cruelty: Ontological War in 'It's a Wonderful Life' and Lincoln: The Ambiguous Icon.Democracy in America may be dead. Yes, it continues...

Race and the Anthropocene: planetary circuits of imperial power

William E. Connolly, author, Resounding Events: adventures of an academic from the working class (forthcoming, March, 2022); Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming (2017.) In my early work on race, I focused, along with numerous others, on ideological and social power...

Dipesh Chakrabarty, the Global, and the Planetary

William E. Connolly, author of Facing the Planetary and of Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth.  The Climate of History in a Planetary Age, by Dipesh Chakrabarty, is in my judgment the most compelling and encompassing book by a humanist on the complexities and asymmetries of the Anthropocene...

Michel Serres, Evental Time and Cultural Denialism

William E. ConnollyFacing the Planetary and Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth. Time, says Michael Serres, neither consists of a uniform, singular flow nor a linear repetition of instants that curve under the influence of gravity, as Einstein had insisted. Both images are too streamlined,...