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Thinking Europe without thinking
Neo-colonial discourse on and in the western Balkans
EU member states draw upon a reservoir of colonial discourse to assert superiority over the extra-European Other; western Balkan states compensate by turning the same discourse against neighbours lower down the ladder of EU accession, writes Tanja Petrovic. [more]
Misnomer Euro-crisis
The common "economic governance" being mooted in Berlin and Brussels indeed needs to happen, writes Michael Krätke. The crucial question, however, is what kind of policy the EU would operate. One thing is sure: the neoliberal course taken until now is unsustainable. [more]
Designing the margin of feasible bodies
Truths and binary oppositions in the construction of sexes-genders-sexualities
The controversy around the gender of South African athlete Caster Semenya is by no means unprecedented. As Silvía Garcia Dauder and Nuria Gregori write, the world of sport is a social microcosm that reveals much about assumptions concerning biological sex. [more]
Beaches and graveyards
Europe's haunted borders
"It is more arduous to honour the memory of the nameless than the renowned." The epigram on Walter Benjamin's memorial in Portbou, Catalonia, leads Les Back to reflect on the fate of the African migrants found dead on the coasts of Spain today. [more]
France: return to Babel
Resisting the norms of an over-regulated language is absolutely crucial, writes Marc Hatzfeld in a celebration of Babel and the true value of linguistic diversity: creative misunderstandings. [more]
"If I don't say what I think, what's the point of being mad?"
A conversation with Catalan philosopher Xavier Rubert de Ventós
"If my philosophy has been of any use to me, it's been to situate my monstrous condition within an order of general discourse." The Catalan philosopher and former MEP explains why he finds reactionaries more interesting than liberals and what he means by the "non-Fichtean ego". [more]
The historical origins of anti-Catalanism
In order to understand modern Catalan nationalism, it is necessary to examine the emergence of "anti-Catalanism" in Castilian Spain during the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. [more]
The Armenian genocide: Issues of responsibility and democracy
An interview with Susan Neiman and Andreas Huyssen
Intellectuals in Turkey advocating a public debate about the "Armenian issue" have been marginalized, penalized, and in the case of Hrant Dink, assassinated. Yet in any politics of memory in Turkey must be guided by the public sphere, argue Susan Neiman and Andreas Huyssen. [more]
Distorted vision
The imperviousness of the Castilian market to cultural output in Catalan
Catalan cultural products are seen as a political instrument rather than a response to genuine demand. As a result, it is easier for a Catalan author to get published in German or Dutch than in Castilian Spanish. [more]
The virtual frontiers of Europe
Are countries that adhere to Enlightenment values and institutional norms, but that are not geographically part of Europe, also to be considered European? [more]
The unwinnable war
An interview with Zygmunt Bauman
In the East, impoverished masses are lured into anti-Westernism; in the West, the State seeks to regain its legitimacy via the War on Terror. A vicious cycle of global insecurity is underway. [more]
Neighbourhoods
Opening address at the 18th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
For Orhan Pamuk, "neighbourhood" implies openness to neighbouring cultures but also provincial mistrust. Cultural journals' role, he says, should be to encourage non-conformity. [more]
Science, democracy, and the global market
Conflicts within the technology sector are increasingly resolved by private "experts", while media coverage of science is tailored to the interests of industry. [more]
Intelligent design and the assault on science
Biochemist Juli Peretó delivers a rebuke to the fallacies and dishonesties of the theory of intelligent design and examines the ambiguous attitude of the Catholic Church towards creationism. [more]
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