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Class struggle is real | Eurozine

All people are intellectuals but not everyone in society is given the role of intellectual Antonio Gramsci Chaussée Ménilmontant barricade, Paris Commune, 18 March 1871.

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Profiting from destruction and reconstruction

Right now, the dominant narrative of those that occupy political and economic power-centres, and those whose careers and lives are wedded to militaries, is that

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Updating common knowledge | Eurozine

Have you ever wondered how the results of scientific research get written up, published, disseminated and, in some cases, eventually accepted as conventional wisdom? How

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Just ourselves | Eurozine

In his 1993 book Pleasant the Scholar’s Life: Irish Intellectuals and the Construction of the Nation State, Maurice Goldring emphasised the role of intellectuals in

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Taming the ship of fools

Greta Thunberg accused participants of the 2023 World Economic Forum with ‘fuelling the destruction of the planet’. She argued that the irresponsibility of the economic

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‘It’s important to be open’

In the second episode of Knowledgeable Youth, the students discuss a theme close to their current experience, shared by many others’ in Vienna: migrating. The

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Press freedom amid martial law

At first, everyone contrasted the outspoken freedom of Ukraine’s media with Russia’s blank censorship. Two years on, the gap doesn’t look that tremendous.  It has

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Pirate AI | Eurozine

ChatGPT and generative AI truly burst onto the scene in late 2022. There’s a good chance that the intersection between books, publishing and AI first

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‘Science is cool’ | Eurozine

Due to differences in school systems between Ukraine and Austria, Ukrainian adolescents often enter university earlier than Austrian students. This episode of the Knowledgeable Youth

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Occupied futures | Eurozine

As the object of study rather than the subject of communication, the so-called Middle East has long been a locus for advanced technologies of mapping.