What art accomplishes in performing politics is to govern (placing beings into play with one another) bodies through affects. This is to realize that building broader coalitions and involving more people will require calling them forth not merely with arguments (life is no argument) but also throu
It was brought there without any intentions other than that of being here as a sign speaking for itself. This was the action: setting up a light emergency tent.
‘European citizenship’ is a ‘constituent’ process that emerges, develops and is constantly elaborated within social practices. How does the practice of the commons effect it? This week’s guest feature reports back on an experiment conducted last September in Teatro Valle.
Teatro Valle is an ancient theatre in Rome, which, following its occupation by a large group of citizens in 2011, has become internationally renowned as an experimental space for new social, political and cultural practices revolving around the idea of direct democracy and the ‘common good’ (bene
In a precarious context induced by a struggle for the essential, one term has re-emerged as indispensable, providing many of us with a new sense of direction, creation and sharing, and ultimately, like a boomerang, assuming the ‘austere’ dignity of that which cannot be renounced: the commons.
A new catchy tune is circulating social media in Egypt. A brief interview with the lyricist and musician confirms the author's suspicions of the symbolism of the song.
As Egypt’s military-backed regime moves to further consolidate its power, no spheres of civil society are free of state encroachment. Leila Zaki Chakravarti analyses the intricate relationships between football, religion and politics in the settling of political scores in post-revolutionary Egypt.
It seems obvious that Abdel Fattah El Sisi is going to be Egypt's next president, but he has yet to announce his intention to run. Are people just going to take it as a given that he is going to be the next president? Do they not want to know what his programme is?
Cyprus cannot be a nation-state under Greek Cypriot majority rule, or two nation-states in a loose co-federation under the surveillance of NATO forces. But could Cyprus be a new united Republic founded on the ideas of labour and a common Mediterranean civilization? If the EU said yes.
Bosnia’s political elites across the ethnic spectrum have lost their legitimacy, and can only function within the current political chaos, with its prevailing democratic deficit.
Reflections on cultural theorist Stuart Hall. By Sara Ahmed, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Vera Jocelyn, Patricia Noxolo, Pratibha Parmar, Ann Phoenix, Nirmal Puwar, Suzanne Scafe. Curated by Yasmin Gunaratnam for Media Diversified.
Remembering the power of being and thought of one of the most inspiring theorists of the postwar left, Stuart Hall.
