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Competing for the origin of life

For this is why not only lice, bedbugs, fleas and helminths, come into being as the guests and neighbours of our wretchedness, and are born

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Disability histories | Eurozine

With 1.3 billion people (and counting) living with disabilities around the world, and in the context of a neoliberal order that prioritizes ‘competition and body

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A staggering reversal of assumptions

President Donald Trump’s unjustified and unjustifiable war against Iran has shown the fragility of the fossil fuel-based energetic order. At the very same moment, China’s

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Searching for the ‘republic of possibility’

In June 2024, Kenya’s President William Ruto announced that he was going to withdraw a finance bill that, via tax increases, would have pushed the

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Orbánism after Orbán | Eurozine

Viktor Orbán’s defeat has deprived the European far right of its most successful model of government. Patriots for Europe remain the third strongest group in

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Bread baked in someone else’s oven

One’s mother tongue is the greatest comfort blanket, an intimacy like no other, in which we feel most at ease and secure alongside others who

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Ecology to an anarchist beat

Although a consensus is forming as to the necessity of an ecological approach, ecology has been politically neutered and, in many cases, appropriated by state

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Narrative Apocalypse | Eurozine

Narratives of Apocalypse are a defining feature of the present. In parallel, narrative itself is in decline, or even obsolete, according to many thinkers. Mittelweg

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The missing Palestinians | Eurozine

The launch press conference for the 2025 Berlin Biennale, at the Sophiensäle in the city’s Mitte district, was filled to capacity. First to speak was

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Symbiotic culture and repression | Eurozine

Vladimir Putin’s favourite exhibition, laconically called ‘Russia’, took centre stage in Moscow’s cultural scene from November 2023 to July 2024. Located in VDNKh, a 325-hectare