Dive into the archives.
- Slavoj Zizek against Bernard-Henri Levy
There are a number of important moments, in particular look for the charity as a consumption practice or the violence of charity, the problem of zionist anti-semitism, the persistence of systemic violence in West Bank, the neccessity of communism in the advent of “new” commons, palin a as fascist, Hitler as a new age philosopher [...]
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- The Testimonies of Azmi and Hrant
“One of the difficulties in discussing violence in the 1948 war is that “Palestine,” the site of violence, both persists and has ceased to exist. Its simultaneous presence and erasure occurs in part through the survival of Palestinians from the 1948 war in what has ceased to be Palestine. Their scattered yet persistent presence constitutes [...]
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- The expansive politics of Azmi Bishara and Emily Jacir
In his recent book-manifesto, Hatred of Democracy, Jacques Rancière refers to citizen’s rights as the “rights of those who have not the rights that they have and have the rights that they have not.” Politics is sparked within the interval of this contradiction as the ‘have nots’ defy, through political practice, the arbitrary deprivation [...]
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- Hrant Dink’s solitude
Hrant Dink, an Armenian editor, columnist, journalist, thinker from Turkey is assassinated yesterday. Within left progressive and pro-democratic forces in Turkey, Dink occupied a unique place. His perseverance, especially, in the face of the travesty of unending court trials and delusory accusations he was subjected to, more recently under the infamous [...]
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