capitalism
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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.
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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.
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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?
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The wheels of platform capitalism
WORK: Ethnography meets animation in a playful digital environment concealing the constraints of the algorithmic gig economy.
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Requiem for a lost industrial existence
CAPITALISM: A paradigmatic story of Croatia, and all other Eastern European transition countries.
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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.
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Requiem for a dream
RUSSIA: The absurdity of life in Yekaterinburg and the clash between those longing for imperial greatness and a small group of dissidents standing against Putin's impending invasion of Ukraine.
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The reality of capitalism and beyond
NEOLIBERALISM: Capitalist realism is a term for the late capitalist world where it is not possible to imagine a different and better one - it is what it is. Did neoliberal capital take the form of a wall-to-wall ideology, constituting an affective regime? And was the 'end of history' nothing more than a class project?
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The end – and beginning – of history
ALBANIA: The country's transformation was fraught with difficulties. On the altar of freedom, factories went bankrupt, jobs disappeared, and thousands fled to Italy on overcrowded ships.