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Nowadays largely regarded

Flavia Monceri (UNIMOL): The Nature of the "Ruling Body": Embodiment, Ableism and Normalcy. Jeremie Gilbert (East London): Land Rights as Human Rights: The Case for a Specific Right to Land. Veli-Matti Karhulahti (Turku): Hermeneutics and Ludocriticism. Jonne Arjoranta (Jyvaskyla) and Veli-Matti Karhulahti (Turku): Ludology, Narratology and Philosophical Hermeneutics. Niksa Svilicic (IAR) and Pero Maldini (Dubrovnik): Political Myths and Totalitarianism: An Anthropological Analysis of Their Causal Interrelationship. What will be the dominant ideologies of the 21st century? Thor May wonders. From the forthcoming issue of n+1, Jamie Martin reviews The End of Protest: How Free-Market Capitalism Learned to Control Dissent and The Logic of Discipline: Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government by Alasdair Roberts; Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance by Greta Krippner; The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy by Dani Rodrik; and Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920–1946 by Patricia Clavin. Ezra Klein on why Obama won’t give the Ferguson speech his supporters want. Trayvon Martin’s father has sympathetic advice for Michael Brown’s family (and more). Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on why the coming race war won’t be about race (and a response by David Zirin). Who are the "Revolutionary Communists" allegedly agitating in Ferguson? Michelle Dean on the Revolutionary Communist Party, nowadays largely regarded as crank-ish even by many self-identified Communists, and routinely referred to as a "cult of personality" for its leader Bob Avakian.