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Monstrous Plans & Good Habitats Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 1 October, 2008 - 11:28
Mark Crinson

Was modernism complicit with colonialism, and did the struggle for decolonisation also entail a targeting of imperial modernist architecture? Mark Crinson visits the exhibition In the Desert of Modernity to see if the charge will stick

 


Western Sahara Editorial content |
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 28 November, 2007 - 20:24
Western Sahara

Image: Refugee camp in western Sahara, http://www.arso.org/05-3.htm


The Failure of Political Theology Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 28 November, 2007 - 15:33
Angela Mitropoulos

The notion of the 'failed state' is recurrently invoked to justify military and security interventions. Reviewing two books which take so-called failed states in Africa and South America as their object of enquiry, Angela Mitropoulos questions the founding premises of 'successful' national sovereignty


Super Size my pay OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Friday, 9 March, 2007 - 03:39
Toby

Official 'New Zealand' is a sporty, soporific hell-hole of 'classless' good cheer.  Fortunately successive generations of the Pacific proletariat (see also L.Goldner's Melville book and Fabian Thomsett's review of same on Metamute) refuse to learn that the colonial/class war is over.
(from Libcom: http://libcom.org/)


Surging towards the holy oil grail Editorial content | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Saturday, 13 January, 2007 - 05:09
Pepe Escobar

Schedule of impending disaster in Iraq according to the oil rights law (cf. Midnight Notes any time since 2003) about to be passed under cover of moral fever over the US cannon fodder 'surge'.  From by-no-means-sympathetic perspective the speculator, sorry, journalist almost acknowledges a common class interest between insurgent Sunni and Shia non-oil-owners, against their 'representatives' including the newly-ministerial Badr Brigades as well as th ex-Ba'ath thanatocrats courted by the occupiers as potential deal-brokers.


Somalia: killed by kindness OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Monday, 26 June, 2006 - 17:56
Brendan O'Neill

One thing the Spiked/Living Marxism faction usually does competently is denouncing spurious 'humanitarianism' (currently, it seems, being rebranded as 'human security') in geopolitics.  This text (re-posted from http://www.spiked-online.com) is a useful brief history of the century of Western interference in Somalia that created the 'failed state' pretext for perpetual re-interference.  It touches on the crucial question of 'aid' as economically destructive exten


'Imperial Grooming' (Iranian Cinema and the Inconvenience of Class Struggle) Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Sunday, 11 July, 2004 - 23:00
Melancholic Troglodytes

After the Iranian ‘revolution’ in 1979, film became public enemy number one. Viewed with suspicion, this infidel medium became the target of state repression and, at the same time, the site of a necessary and astonishing inventiveness. As a result, (some) Iranian cinema has been subject to widespread celebration throughout the film festivals and art house cinemas of the West.


Benetton In Patagonia (United colours of land grab) Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 18 December, 2003 - 00:00
Sebastian Hacher

Patagonia has a long history of colonial oppression. But the corporate conquistadors behind the current round of evictions are more renowned for their interest in worthy causes than their cut-throat approach to real estate, reports Sebastian Hacher


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