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Almagestum Contemporarium

By Tzuchien Tho 19 June 2013

In his dense bomb of a book, Fernando Zalamea updates the relationship between contemporary mathematics and philosophy. What is proposed is a syntheti...

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I've Seen Gardens, Compared with Which this Would be a Wilderness

By Martin Howse 11 June 2013

Stanislaw Lem’s 1964 opus, Summa Technolgiae, has only just been translated into English. Over half a century later, Lem’s work stands as an aston...

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Wanderings of the Slave: Black life and Social Death

By R.L. 5 June 2013

For the theorists of Afro-pessimism, black non-existence forms a negativity against which white liveliness and freedom defines itself positively. Surv...

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Postscript (p.s. Forever)

By Rózsa Farkas and Harry Burke 5 June 2013

If all surfaces and gestures are mediated by capital, how can we imagine them becoming a ground for struggle? An experimental text by Rózsa Farkas an...

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Nice Monsters and Scary Sprites

By Mira Mattar 28 May 2013

  Harmony Korine's recent film Spring Breakers doesn't exactly reward stringent sociological critique. His use of manipulative, ...

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RIOTING WITH REASON: FROM ENGLAND TO SWEDEN AND BACK AGAIN

By Nina Power 27 May 2013

Why do English sociologists and politicians find riots so much more explicable when they happen overseas? Nina Power finds an international logic...

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2 Responses to the Riots in Sweden

By Megafonen and Pantrarna 25 May 2013

Pantrarna (The Panthers) and the sister organization Megafonen (The Megaphone) are two community activist groups based in Swedish suburbs. Pantrarna a...

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Weaponise Aunt Hester’s Scream

By Sacha Kahir 22 May 2013

In an expanded review of Arika 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle, part of an ongoing series of mini-festivals, Sacha Kahir listens to the anguished la...

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In the Junkyard of Wrecked Fictions

By Andrey Shental 14 May 2013

Artist and film-maker Hito Steyerl has been a key thinker of the relationship between the fragmentary landscape of global networked images and contemp...

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