Bernard E. Harcourt
@bernardharcourt.bsky.social
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Professor of law and political theory at Columbia University and the EHESS in Paris. Death penalty defense counsel and author of *Critique & Praxis* (2020), *Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory* (2023), and *The Counterrevolution* (2018). .. more

Bernard E. Harcourt is an American critical theorist with a specialization in the area of punishment, surveillance, legal and political theory, and political economy. He also does pro-bono legal work on human rights issues. .. more

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How is it that the far Right today has become radical Leninists and the Left has become Burkean conservatives? Just posted a new essay in which I explore the far Right’s embrace of Lenin and radical politics--and how the Left should respond: open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...
What Is To Be Done about the Radical Far-Right?
Hegel, Lenin, Bannon, and the Trump Revolution: On the Dialectics of Smashing the State
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Brilliant piece by @bernardharcourt.bsky.social this morning on Critique & Praxis.

Throws down a gauntlet for an American progressive left that must reclaim revolutionary radicalism against the far right’s bourgeois counter-revolution.

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What Is To Be Done about the Radical Far-Right?
Hegel, Lenin, Bannon, and the Trump Revolution: On the Dialectics of Smashing the State
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Beccaria was way ahead of us, back in 1764, when he worried about the brutalizing effects of state violence: How it could transform our ways of thinking and feeling. He was only 25 years old at the time—a Gen Z by our standards today. I just posted an essay here: open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...
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Tuesday, October 7th join author Daniel Louis Wyche in conversation with Bernard Harcourt about THE CARE OF THE SELF AND THE CARE OF THE OTHER at Book Culture starting at 7pm. @bernardharcourt.bsky.social @bookculture.com
112th: Daniel Louis Wyche with Bernard Harcourt | Book Culture
536 West 112th StNew York, NY
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and, sadly, of Rikers Island as well…

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… and stunning views of Brooklyn and Queens as well…

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I had amazing views of Manhattan on my flight back from Alabama this afternoon…
Views of NYC from plane

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Some thoughts on the brutality of our punishment practices, from the American death penalty to summary executions in international Waters…

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Back in Alabama, driving through the cotton fields, on the way to Holman Prison in Atmore. The clouds are getting ominous. The dementors are swooping in....

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Trump just ordered and the U.S. Navy just carried out another summary execution of 4 persons suspected of drug running in international waters. I am at a loss of words, so I am re-upping my piece on this just posted yesterday…

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President Trump’s Summary Execution of “Foreign Designated Terrorists” in International Waters and the Coming War on Anti-Fascism in America
Stopping A Lethal Category Error Before It Goes Any Further
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President Trump is deliberately eliding and fabricating lethal categories at the same time as he is creating a new war on anti-fascism in America. I just posted an essay about it on my Substack here, where I try to disentangle the categories:
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Cooperation and artist cooperatives, a perfect synergy, especially in these heightened times of exclusion and political repression. I just posted a review of the "Press & Pull" print exhibit at the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate School in NYC. Open access here:
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The Art of Cooperation
A Review of the “Press & Pull” Art Exhibit at the James Gallery in New York City
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