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An impartial report from the occupied Palestinian territories

PALESTINE: Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur, provides a critical analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, highlighting the injustices and legal violations faced by Palestinians in occupied territories.

Reinterpreting Nietzsche and the New Zeitgeist of the Post-War Era

PHILOSOPHY: The redemption of Nietzsche’s philosophy post-WWII, as Italian scholars rehabilitate his ideas and influence in the face of Nazi distortion.

Alternative history of human nature

PATRIARCHY: Why Men? explores the roots of patriarchy, inequality, and violence, challenging misconceptions about human nature and revealing our innate drive for equality.

Beyond orientalist myths

ISLAM: Samia Rahman's book confronts the myths about Muslim women, revealing their complex realities and voices, often overshadowed by Western narratives and stereotypes.

The devil in the details

CONFLICT: Uncover the truth behind Conflict, an engaging but flawed analysis of warfare from 1945 to Ukraine.

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.

Visions of a waning west

CONFLICT: Emmanuel Todd predicts the West's decline, analysing the Russo-Ukrainian war and its implications in his thought-provoking book.

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

>b>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.

Ethics for humanity to come

ETHICS: In the era of technology, the Western roots in Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions lose enchantment. Umberto Galimberti advocates for an ethics of aimless wandering, denouncing dominance and embracing a cosmopolitan, biocentric view that life on the earth is the measure of all things.

Reimagining Russia

RUSSIA: Mikhail Khodorkovsky discusses Russia's future post-Putin, advocating for revolution, democracy, and equitable resource distribution.

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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