Putting on the Glasses: David Sirota’s Master Plan
POLITICS: A Review of the Master Plan Podcast, Season 2: The Kingmakers
politics
Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
POLITICS: From Occupy to Gaza solidarity, waves of mobilisation have filled streets and screens without forcing structural change. What happens when politics becomes expression rather than strategy?
Forget Me Not
MEMORY: Visual essays that probe memory and denial, arguing that oblivion may comfort the vulnerable but doesn’t avert violence.
Toni, My Father
PHILOSOPHY: From prison rituals to 1970s utopias, Anna Negri’s film reframes Toni Negri beyond labels, tracing conatus, family conflict, and the power of happy passions.
Capturing Water
WATER: As Cape Town nears disaster, activists fight water cut-offs in a story about governance, climate, and social justice.
A role model
ACTIVISM: Masih Alinejad, Nobel nominee, voices Iran’s silenced through social and global media.
Have we as a civilisation met ourselves at the door?
IDENTITY: Do we all have some kind of doppelganger that expresses our most extreme thoughts and attitudes? In this book, Naomi Klein takes a special stand against her own people: the Jews.
The media and Corbyn
POLITICS: What was the biggest obstacle for Jeremy Corbyn, as he was close to winning the elections – becoming the prime minister of Britain today? A smear campaign and stamps as ‘the stooge of Russia’ or ‘antisemite’?
Becoming god
SCIENCE: The rise and fall of a scientist at the heart of a genetic revolution and the controversies it unleashed.