Michael Bray, associate professor of philosophy, has had an essay titled “Openness as a Form of Closure: Public Sphere, Social Class and Alexander Kluge’s Counterproducts” accepted for publication in Telos 159 (Summer 2012). He also presented a paper titled “El Pueblo Soy Yo?: On Chavismo and the Necessity of the Leader” at the Western Political Science Association conference in Portland, Ore., March 24, as part of a panel on “Neoliberal Consensus and Political Possibility.”