Writer Travis Jeppesen reflects on the tactic of "bad writing" and the creative process involved in the writing of his upcoming novel, The Suiciders. UPDATE: Now with an extract from Jeppesen's The Suiciders
Nuclear weapons were at the heart of the Cold War. Yet the broader impact of the arms race on politics and society has been forgotten. This is unfortunate, argues Holger Nehring, as the impact of the shared fear of total war that the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union
A brief theoretical look at how Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's philosophy of becoming-wolf can be applied to art theory and critique in the context of openDemocracy's up-coming event, One or Several Wolves: multiplicities and packs in art.
In this third excerpt from the Moving Parts series Ruchir travels to the town of Khhair with cousins Guddu and Pintu, where Ruchir learns about the systematized corruption involved in the Indian construction business.
Russia has lost a great dissident campaigner for Moscow’s built heritage with the death of David Sarkisyan, museum director, film impresario, scientist and aesthete
In this second excerpt from Ruchir Joshi's 'Moving Parts' series, Ruchir visits two brothers, Hajiriya and Gajiriya, who have contracted the terminal disease Silicosis as a result of their work at the silica quartz processing-plant in Godhra.
openDemocracy is launching a new quarterly series of live art events featuring art exhibitions and discussions on a wide array of social, cultural and political issues.
Arthur Koestler, whose turbulent life charts the intellectual history of the 20thc in the West, has finally found a worthy biographer in Michael Scammell. A youthful communist and survivor of Franco’s prisons, Koestler developed into one of the West’s most persuasive crusaders against communism.
In this excerpt from Ruchir Joshi's 'Moving Parts' series, Ruchir visits the silica quartz processing-plant in Godhra where many local workers claim that hazardous working conditions are resulting in serious health problems
The time has run out for traditional military answers. Ours is a culture of war, but cultures can change. We need education in peace and in international understanding, as so much more
openDemocracy author Heather McRobie speaks with Ollie Brock about her upcoming novel where she looks at both Radovan Karadzic – who is standing trial for war crimes during the Serbian genocide of 1994 – and 19th-century philologist Vuk Karadzic
