CULTURE
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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The nine buzzy Cannes films that could become Oscar contenders
There were hardly any American films at Cannes this year, but one of them was a clear festival highlight. Written…
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Whistler’s Mother is a US icon
Like all successful memes the original concept is easily understandable. Its theme of motherhood is universal, and the composition and…
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