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Beautiful Transgressions | Brazil: Anatomy of a Crisis
Öyvind Fahlström, ’Sketch for World Map Part 1 (Americas, Pacific)’ For over two weeks in late June/early July hundreds of thousands protested in more than a hundred cities across Brazil amidst...
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Sister Outsider | Feminism is for Everybody – Part 2: Men of Colour &...
Hana Riaz talks to a Ceasefire panel on masculinity Many of the conversations and work subsequently produced about men of colour and masculinity have been extremely American-centric. In part two of...
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An A to Z of Theory | Walter Benjamin: Fascism and Crisis
Source: www.eanagnosis.gr/ Precarity and Crisis in One Way Street The collection of fragments titled ‘One-Way Street’ is an extended discussion of precarity and crisis in interwar Germany. Benjamin...
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African Spirituality | African Religion: Rediscovering the Way
A Catholic Missionary circa 1740, Kingdom of Kongo, burning down the house of local “Nganga” / Shaman (Spiritualist) From the Bantu-Kongo, the Akan, Zulu, to the Twa, the traditions of African...
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Reflections | The Long Baking Process of History: Changing Narratives of the...
In Europe there is a war on immigration. It is a war fuelled by the territorial imagination and carried out by extremely vulnerable sovereign nations. 11,000 Africans have lost their lives since 1982...
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An A to Z of Theory | Walter Benjamin: Culture and Revolution
Surrealism In a paper on Surrealism written in 1929, Benjamin argues for a particular approach to revolutionary art. This argument is based on the idea that practices of transformation and montage are...
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An A to Z of Theory | Walter Benjamin: Messianism and Revolution – Theses on...
“Benjamin sees Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus as depicting the Angel of History, looking back to the past.” (Source: 3.bp.blogspot.com) Benjamin’s “On the Concept of History”, also known as “Theses on...
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An A to Z of Theory | Walter Benjamin: Critique of the State
In ‘Critique of Violence’, Benjamin seeks to relate violence to questions of law and justice. He also provides an unusual and intriguing theory of state power. The term ‘violence’ in this essay is...
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Africlimate | The DRC: Beyond the atrocities, an emerging environmental crisis
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a region of Africa plagued by tragedy. This wasn’t always so: the thriving Kingdom of Kongo (which also includes modern Angola) enjoyed good trading relations...
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An A to Z of Theory | Walter Benjamin: Politics of Everyday Life
Benjamin’s psychogeography Many of Benjamin’s articles read like flânerie reports. Focused on a particular city, his reports are part-psychological, part-cultural, part-geographical. Often, he is...
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An A to Z of Theory | Alain Badiou: Ontology and Structuralism
Alain Badiou’s influential theory of the Event, revolutionary politics, and radical philosophy has taken the field of theory by storm, and even finds resonances in political texts such as The Coming...
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Radar Reports | New coins leave India’s blind population short-changed
The new Indian Rupee coins (Credit: Balu) ‘Radar Reports’ series, Anoop Kumar reports on how millions of visually impaired Indians are now struggling as a result of the government’s short sighted coin...
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In Theory | Alain Badiou: Transcendence, Sets, and the Exclusion of Substance
In the previous column, I examined Badiou’s conceptions of ontology and science. Here, I explain the specific claims of Badiou’s philosophy: the necessity of a transcendent “one” for social order,...
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Radar Reports | Kenya’s immigrant crackdown: ‘Harassing Somalis will not...
On Sunday June 15, an attack by militants from Somalia’s al-Shabab group on hotels and a police station in the town of Mpeketoni, on the coast of Kenya, left dozens of people dead. Such incidents have...
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An A to Z of Theory | Alain Badiou: The State
In his ten-part series on Badiou, Ceasefire columnist Andrew Robinson traces the influential French post-Maoist’s ideas from their philosophical foundations to their implications for radical politics....
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Ghosts of History | The Tasmanian Aborigines
In this series, I will attempt to elucidate events in the past that are either ignored or suppressed by governments, education systems and mainstream media in the West. In particular, my focus will be...
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Radar Reports | Alain Badiou: The Excluded Part and the Evental Site
Alain Badiou’s revolutionary theory of political transformation focuses centrally on the idea of the Event. In the fourth through seventh parts of a ten-part series on Badiou, I will respectively...
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Radar Reports | Teenage Pregnancies in Kenya: “I knew nothing about...
(Photo credits: Scott Gunn) Kenya’s high teenage pregnancy rate has resulted in thousands of girls abandoning their education early, stunting the development of half the nation. The high number of...
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Ghosts of History | The Natives of Canada
“We also have no history of colonialism” – Stephen Harper, current Prime Minister of Canada From an aggregate of paleontological, anthropological, genetic and linguistic research, it is hypothesised...
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An A to Z of Theory | Walter Benjamin: Politics of Everyday Life
Benjamin’s psychogeography Many of Benjamin’s articles read like flânerie reports. Focused on a particular city, his reports are part-psychological, part-cultural, part-geographical. Often, he is...
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