In Soundings, Scottish political commentator Gerry Hassan talks to Patrick Wright, author of a classic study of English cultural nationalism, On Living in an Old…
Pleasure principles
Pleasure – or its unserious cousin, fun – seems an easy exchange for health and safety. But, asks rekto:verso, are we throwing away the baby…
Home in the interstices
Culture & Démocratie’s special issue questions ideas of ‘home’ from fortification and insularity to hospitality and a willingness to open one’s door. Living in the…
Dialogues with the archive
Revue Nouvelle marks its 75th anniversary with reprints of social and political analyses published in the journal between the 1960s and the 1990s, along with…
The Hungarian comic tradition
In the Hungarian literary journal 2000, literary historian István Margócsy provides a grand tour of humour in the Hungarian literature of the past two centuries…
Power and protest in Belarus
The new issue of Osteuropa explores the dramatic events in Belarus following the fraudulent presidential elections last summer. Across more than 430 pages, renowned researchers…
‘If we want to do things differently, we must ask the citizens’
The German Federal Constitutional Court’s controversial Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) judgment of May 2020 ruled that the European Central Bank had exceeded its mandate…
‘I see myself seeing myself’
‘In the 1970s and 1980s, Kharkiv photography formed part of the unofficial culture that developed in the Soviet Union during the post-war era’, Ekaterina Diogot…
„Die Stimmung ist nicht dieselbe“
In wenigen Sommermonaten hat Belarus seine Rolle in der Weltgeschichte komplett neu geschrieben. Wurde ein Teil davon. Dies ist viel mehr als formale Souveränität. Es…
Big Pharma’s finest hour?
If there’s one thing keeping us going through this dark and difficult January, it is surely this: the end is in sight, a vaccine is…
‘A decisive effort is necessary’
Gerry Hassan: We are living at a time when the past, and interpretations, memories and ghosts of the past, seem all around us within the…
An uncivil war
Read more from our 01/2021 newsletter Peaceful transfer of power? Forget it. Claire Potter Representing nature Damien de Blic Roots in nature The pathogen…
Representing nature
The delegation from the Forest steps up to the rostrum, followed by delegations from the Atmosphere, the Oceans, the Endangered Species and the Amazon. They…
Topical: The Arab Spring, ten years on
Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy on Flickr ‘We know that the spring of revolutions is followed by the passions of summer and the discord of fall’,…
Peaceful transfer of power? Forget It.
Around this time, four years ago, I was writing an essay about the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Jeff Sessions’ nomination as Attorney General. In…
Roots in nature
The effect of environmental degradation on human health has long been recognized. From increases in asthma rates caused by air pollution to toxic contaminants in…
Will polluters ever pay?
On 4 August 2020, approximately 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in the port of Beirut, causing 204 deaths and thousands of serious injuries, about…
Disaster capitalism
Since the Beirut Port blast on 4 August 2020, life has been on hold in much of Beirut. In the districts surrounding the port, dozens of…
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During the past century, geneticists have had a problematic relationship with the question of human ‘races’. While the notion of races stretches back much further…
Darkest moments
2020 has undoubtedly been a year of crises, but festive habits notwithstanding we’ll avoid silver linings for now. Photo by Corina Rainer on Unsplash It…
By popular demand
Beyond racism Achille Mbembe, The weight of life In a rush to minimize the recession following COVID-19, some hold their economies dearer than the saving…
Topical: Belarusian protests
Photo by Andrew Keymaster from Unsplash. A moment of choice In Kantian terms, human dignity is absolute and a priori, and its violation is the…
A country of grumblers?
Something is rotten in Hungary, as the international media seems keen on pointing out. Why it is rotten, however, is rarely explained. Foreign interest in…
Gendered design
With so many places suddenly off limits due to the virus, rarely have we been as acutely aware of space as we have this year.…
Radical new Dutch essayists
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What went wrong with reunification?
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The realm of the senses
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Kulturkampf
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Aleatory democracy
Undesirable feedback Eurozine Review 22/2020 The language of languages Wespennest 179 (2020) Eurozine Review Aleatory democracy Merkur 12/2020 Eurozine Review Kulturkampf Vagant 2–3/2020 Eurozine Review…
Check, control, cancel or care
Surely I wasn’t the only one feeling insecure? The coach journey from Slovenia to Italy was on a busy route. And we were all in…