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Lula 3.0 and the austerity trap

Campaigning for his third term as president in 2022, Lula da Silva ran on a straightforward message: making Brazil “happy again”. Now, halfway through his

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‘A’ at the end of the alphabet

Should sexual relationships, with all their complications, really be a benchmark of societal acceptance? Vox Feminae investigates the history of asexuality and aromanticism: pathologized by

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Writing on the wall, writing on the water

Cofiwch Dryweryn (remember Tryweryn). The walls exhort us in bright red and white, from Llanrhystud in West Wales to Chicago. And the writing’s not only

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Russia’s dreams of re-Union | Eurozine

For three decades after the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, political science and practical politics in Western Europe and North America very rarely addressed Moscow’s

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The language that waited at the doorstep

Languages’ similarities are not rooted in a special genetics for language. They follow from culture and common information-processing solutions and have their own individual evolutionary

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Extraterrestrial concepts of life | Eurozine

Sometimes it is almost impossible to escape a feeling of wonder for the abundance of life in our world. Especially on a summer’s day –

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The Arab apocalypse | Eurozine

Historians are generally wary of commemorations – fireworks that dazzle the eye only to fade in the same instant. But they are also aware that

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Not epistemic enough to be discussed

The following text is a chapter from Decolonising Art: Beyond the Obvious (2025), a publication that summarizes and documents a public programme of the same

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Seeds of another world | Eurozine

Ever since Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s US presidential election, there has been frantic speculation about what it is the American Right really wants.

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The art of despair | Eurozine

The Syrian writer, journalist and dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh is one of the most prominent voices of the Syrian Revolution. Imprisoned as a communist by