modernisation

  • The Town That Drove Away : «We witnessed how urbanisation became a façade»

    The Town That Drove Away : «We witnessed how urbanisation became a façade»

    INTERVIEW: Filmmakers Grzegorz Piekarski and Natalia Pietsch explore Turkey’s cultural erasure through the transformation of historic Hasankeyf into underwater tourism.

  • Russia’s race to the bottom

    Russia’s race to the bottom

    RUSSIA: In this book, Alexander Etkind states that Russia is the least equal, the most militarised, and the most carbonised of all the world's major countries.

  • A politically correct decolonisation ideology?

    A politically correct decolonisation ideology?

    MODERNISATION: Nigerian professor Olùfèmi Táíwò examines power relations between former colonised and colonialists. All states struggle to adapt modern institutions to their own history, cultural context, and ideological climate. But can the demand for decolonizing language become absurd?

  • The death of nature

    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

    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.

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