capitalism
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Bright Future
COLD WAR: The sensory and ideological layers of a forgotten Cold War festival, exploring fleeting solidarity, ideological discord, and the fragility of socialist dreams.
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Born pre-polluted
HEALTH The dawn of the age of Homo Plasticus – or how plastics are going to kill us, unless we do something about them.
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Commercial politics
ADVERTISING: Radu Jude’s latest weaves commercials from the past 35 years, creating a disorienting critique of capitalist culture, advertising, and national identity in post-communist Romania.
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The State of Abolition During Late-Stage Capitalism
ACTIVISM: Angela Y. Davis's essays and speeches on abolition, feminism, and the fight for collective liberation.
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Beyond blood and soil
IDENTITY: The struggle for cultural identity in Mongolia, where the legacy of Genghis Khan meets modern challenges, through the eyes of a determined activist mother.
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Why are the youth in Iraq protesting?
IRAQ: In Iraq, the youth don't trust the politicians or the parties. We met the director and producer of Baghdad on Fire, which addresses the bad governance of their country's leaders and the mobilisation of the youth who really fight for change.
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Afropessimism, Afrofuturism, and Afropolitanism
AFRICA: For capitalists, disruption opens the door to new power and new revenues: People, society and nature are reduced to raw material. Author Achille Mbembe's horizon is always the broadest possible - the cosmic, earth-historical, and planetary. Despite all the harrowing problems, Africa is conjured up as a vibrant world centre that still has power…
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Changing the world through documentary
MEDIA: Cultural anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner provides an easy-read introduction to the logic and visions behind Brave New Films, whose documentary production is non-profit and distributed through social and political networks with the articulated goal of mobilising resistance against capitalism, racism, and fascism.
