Politics
Report from Taksim, Istanbul. Reflections and reenforcement after days of chaos and drama. Our reporters Reuben & Gielty take to the streets of Istanbul to find out more about the protestors and their supporters. Reposted from: http://rabble.ie/2013/06/04/fortress-taksim/
This age of austerity comes on the back of a lengthened period of apparently rampant consumer excess: that was a party for which we are all now having to pay. A spectacular period of unsustainably funded over-indulgence, it seems, has now given rise to a sobering period of barely fundable mere-subsistence. Consumption, narrated along such lines, is a sin which has to be paid for. Beyond the deceptive theology of consumption, however, lies actual politics
Following on from his text, 'After Credit...', Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen discusses art, radical politics and the crisis from 2011 to the present
















