How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold: Tale of a Redemption
PHILOSOPHY: The redemption of Nietzsche’s philosophy post-WWII, as Italian scholars rehabilitate his ideas and influence in the face of Nazi distortion.
michel foucault
Not a place for rehabilitation, but for punishment
PRISON: The harrowing plight of over three thousand IPP prisoners in England and Wales who remain in jail indefinitely despite completing their sentences years ago.
Bodily autonomy in contemporary Europe
BODIES: Elina Psykou’s debut feature delves into biopolitics and bodily management, reflecting on Foucault’s theory of biopower in Europe.
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.
The «good old days» myth
TECH: As society suffers from increased digital anxiety and ecological collapse, Big Tech continues to push its nostalgia-based feedback loop of utopian myth.
Teenage girls, secondary citizens
SOCIETY: Two Ji.hlava IDFF feature documentaries – ‘Cusp’ and ‘Jane by Charlotte’ – grapple with contemporary power dynamics and their effect on the adolescent female.
Docs and de-powering
FESTIVALS: Can documentaries be a part of de-powering – «destitution» – most needed in today’s power-driven societies?
The new uprising
EDITORIAL: Fearing increasing control and surveillance, Hong Kong’s liberal population has experienced the growing presence of Communist China.
A world in stable motion
MIGRANTS: In 2018, the Collège de France established its own professorship in migration studies. Francois Héran was chosen to fill it, and the book Migrations et sociétés is an extended version of his accession lecture.
Africa on African terms
AFRICA: It is a paradox that Africa is assessed in relation to Europe rather than being compared to itself and its own values.
The Specific Intellectual
Is the role of intellectuals sometimes taken over by reflected filmmakers – and those old universal critics gone?