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.
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.
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 in reserve, teeming with wildlife, and a wealth of cultures.
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.
Are we being fooled by IKEA’s promise of a greener future?
CAPITALISM: Ikea, consuming a tree per second, acquires vast lands globally, endangering ecosystems and becoming the forest’s most formidable foe.
Global cloud capitalism
CAPITALISM: ‘Techno-feudalism’ is a global expansion with an omnivorous, boundless development of non-material phenomena. According to Yanis Varoufakis, social democracy can no longer make a difference here.
Being in the opposing position
ŽIŽEK: Despite being a public intellectual for at least 30 years, there has been no previous discussion of Slavoj Žižek’s thought as multifaceted and nuanced as the one we see in the current anthology. But does Žižek recognise the revolutionary potential of desire?
The wheels of platform capitalism
WORK: Ethnography meets animation in a playful digital environment concealing the constraints of the algorithmic gig economy.
Requiem for a lost industrial existence
CAPITALISM: A paradigmatic story of Croatia, and all other Eastern European transition countries.
What does a radically tender society need?
HATE: Turkish-German Seyda Kurt is preoccupied with the concept of hatred as a catalyst for tenderness. Hatred often has its roots in racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and prejudice.