Samir Gandesha is an Associate Professor in the Department of the Humanities and the Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University. He specializes in modern European thought and culture, with a particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is co-editor with Lars Rensmann of Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations (Stanford, 2012). He is co-editor (with Johan Hartle) of Spell of Capital: Reification and Spectacle (University of Amsterdam Press, 2017) and Aesthetic Marx (Bloomsbury Press, 2017) also with Johan Hartle. In the Spring of 2017, he was the Liu Boming Visiting Scholar in Philosophy at the University of Nanjing and Visiting Lecturer at Suzhou University of Science and Technology in China.
-
Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionSubmission to the Special Legislative Committee on reforming British Columbia’s Police Act: 1"My area of expertise is as a political philosopher. As such my role is less to provide answers than to ask often...
-
Published in: Home: OpinionKamala Harris, Angela Davis, and the US's failed revolutionIf the pandemic could be seen as our Reichstag Fire moment, then the attacks on the Capitol on 6 January 2021 might...
-
Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe consummation of consumption 2"It is of vital importance to make of the... uprisings more than a "racial event", for this is exactly what the...
-
Published in: HomeThe consummation of consumption 1.This is an indictment of US capitalism, if not capitalism as a whole.
-
Published in: HomeAmerica under fire as Republicans hold their Convention: interview"This was not the Trump National Convention: this was the Republican National Convention. He has the party behind him!"
-
Published in: HomeSafe spaces for dangerous conversations: notes on teaching"Students... who are better able to ask critical questions of themselves as of others, will be better prepared for...