While we stayed home...
- Peter Harling
The outbreak of a new infectious disease has hardly brought us together. Rather, it has proven intensely polarizing—in line with the age’s politics, economics, and international affairs. If one point of agreement can be found, it lies ...
Will the Coronavirus change the world? On Gramsci’s ‘Interregnum’ and Žižek’s ethnocentric philosophy
- Ramzy Baroud رمزي بارود - Romana Rubeo
The prophecies are here and it is a foregone conclusion: the post-coronavirus world will look fundamentally different from anything that we have seen or experienced, at least since the end of World War II.
Angel Boligan, Mexico
Even before the ...
Nazis boasted about six million Holocaust victims, but It was a Jew who first cited that figure
- Ofer Aderet עופר אדרת
A historian embarks on a pioneering archival journey to discover the first time that someone used the number
Eliezer Unger pictured with students in an undated photograph from the time he was a principle in a school in Montevideo, Uruguay. ...
Covid-19: the rise of a global collective intelligence?
- Marc Santolini
All around the world, scientists and practitioners are relentlessly harnessing data on the pandemic to model its progression, predict the impact of possible interventions and develop solutions to medical equipment shortages, generating open-source ...
The city in a time of plague
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
History teaches us that epidemics are more like revelatory moments than social transformers
The plague-stricken town, traversed throughout with hierarchy, surveillance, observation, writing; the town immobilized by the functioning of an extensive ...
The unbearable lightness of China
Review of Kishore Mahbubani 's book, 'Has China Won? '
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
Kishore Mahbubani's new book argues that China's rejuvenation is not driven by missionary impulse, a fact a flagging US refuses to see
Singaporean ex-diplomat and author Kishore Mahbubani speaks at an Asia Society event in a file photo. Photo: Flickr ...
In the dark mirror of the pandemic
- Gabriel Zacarias
“This society which eliminates geographical distance reproduces distance internally as spectacular separation.”
Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, §167
Interior (Model reading), Edward Hopper, 1925
Talking to a friend who ...
Coronavirus: About the economy of hypocrisy
- Christof Wackernagel
“Life is the greatest good” - has never sounded so unanimously from everyone's lips, and it has never sounded as hollow as it did these days.
Difficult access to clean drinking water. Kenya, June 2018. / Kabukasteven
The ...
The post-viral world - our world?
- Milena Rampoldi ميلينا رامبولدي میلنا رامپلدی Милена Рампольди
The current virus-related isolation and segregation lead people to self-reflection and to a contemplation about their own life. Even those who deal with the crisis a little less hysterically and switch out the roaring media for a few hours because ...
Anti-capitalist politics in the time of COVID-19
- David Harvey
As Marxist geographer David Harvey argues, forty years of neoliberalism has left the public totally exposed and ill prepared to face a public health crisis on the scale of coronavirus.
When trying to interpret, understand, and analyze the daily flow ...
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