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Davide Panagia

Davide Panagia is professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a political theorist with scholarly interests across the humanities and social sciences. His recent books include Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics (Minnesota University Press, 2016), and Rancière’s Sentiments (Duke University Press, 2018). icon

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Political Life in the Age of Catastrophe

By Davide Panagia

Thanks to surveillance, political violence, and AI, we no longer have the luxury of humanist utopias to plan for the future.

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