The death of nature
By combining a sociological approach to the climate crisis with examples drawn from literature and film, interesting new horizons are revealed in this British publication.
The city as an arena for exploitation and resistance in the 21st century
A nostalgia-free analysis of the city as an arena for subjectivation and re-composition from the Italian political philosopher Antonio Negri.
Visions du Reel: Dispossession and Anote’s Ark
Two films dissect the destructive forces wrought by capitalism on the world, and the commodification of all it has to offer. The land, livelihood and the history of humans and animals alike all serve as fodder for the grinding gears of the machine. Does this constitute an act of war?
The Muslim brotherhood and the West
In his latest book, Martyn Frampton argues that the Muslim Brotherhood is a contradictory establishment, but its contradictions are also part of its successes.
In praise of nothing
Boris Mitic’s In Praise of Nothing is probably the most unusual documentary you are likely to see this year.
Britain’s hidden empire
The Spider’s Web employs an array of experts in offshore tax havens to detail the degree to which the British elite has created a system of shocking inequity. This is a film all ordinary, tax-paying citizens should watch.
Is it a crime to save lives?
Acting in the name of human rights has become a criminal act in France.
Authoritarian or Democratic?
At the Oslo Freedom Forum’s (OFF) press conference, a question from the audience makes tempers flare.
Free markets are an illusion
CAPITALISM: John Mikler argues that the world’s largest companies are economically superior to their competitors to such an extent it is wrong to speak of free competition.
A modern view of Africa
AFRICA: Editor and professor Nic Cheeseman succeeds in his goal of offering a new and modern understanding of the African state.
Soothing reconstructions of the Utøya massacre
If you can only bear watching one film about Utøya, Reconstructing Utøya is worth the wait.
Horrors mounting to war
ROMANIA: Coupling aged photographic references to Romania in the 1930’s together with a diary from the time, this doc gives a chilling account of what awaited Romania’s Jews.