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The last tremors
Like in 1848, the Arab revolutions are spearheaded by young people whose democratic aspirations can no longer be halted, writes Gilbert Achcar. No matter what happens in the short term, there exists the real possibility that a liberal order will arise. [more]
Turkish women, west German feminists, and the gendered discourse on Muslim cultural difference
Islamophobia has become the defining mental state of the new Europe, concentrated mainly in the image of the female Muslim immigrant, writes Rita Chin. What began as the expression of concern for Turkish women became the articulation of boundaries between East and West. [more]
The world system after 1945
1968 as world revolution, marking the shift from repressive developmentalism to regressive ultra-liberalism and the beginning of the end for the twentieth-century superpowers: Immanuel Wallerstein on the logic of global history from the Yalta Conference to the second Iraq war. [more]
The national question is unavoidable
Eastern European artists have still to exploit the potential of art to critique national consensus on historical issues. Now that, in Hungary, cultural policy is controlled entirely by conservatives, the question of nationalism has become unavoidable, writes Edit András. [more]
Cultivated mixture
The attraction of opera -- the sanctuary of bourgeois culture -- to critical artists has to do with its formal strictures, argues Diedrich Diederichsen. Opera's high degree of "definition" provides a counterpoint to the variety of non-European-white-heteromasculine perspectives. [more]
Written in the stars?
Global finance, precarious destinies
Where hard physics combines with traders' animal passions, financialized civilization becomes imbued with the relations between hunter and hunted. Systemic corruption produces the disconnect between the informational sky above our heads and the existential ground beneath our feet. [more]
The metaseminar
Theses on education and the experience of critical thought
The Bologna reforms embody a narrowly utilitarian turn in higher education policy and are more a cause for concern than for celebration. A critique of the pragmatic reduction of knowledge and plea for the university as "locus of the unconditionally political". [Romanian version added] [more]
Art with (or without) the market
Italy as location for the exhibition "Art, Price and Value" is apt, given modern Italian artists' unique response to the country's priceless artistic heritage and the cultural influence that implies, writes Allesandro Ludovico. [more]
Beyond democracy
Art, the Church and the State in Poland
Several incidents of religious censorship in Poland show how the project of root-and-branch democratization fails to proffer any substantial counterweight to how art is treated, writes Piotr Piotrowski. [more]
Through the eyes of a zombie
Europe, those who are excluded and the event of being together
Krystian Woznicki notes that art, in times of globalization, faces the question of the representability of community -- or rather, its unrepresentability. The latter includes the community of the excluded. [more]
"Canonizing" and "talking" magazines
Alternative publishing in the Turkish context
There are magazines that simply mirror the cultural environment and those that open up new channels of expression -- "canonizing" and "talking" magazines respectively. Publisher Süreyyya Evren outlines how "talking magazines" in Turkey can move beyond their niche audience to reach broad readerships. [more]
The disposal of democracy
Interview with Jacques Rancière
While the western democratic system still serves a prototypical function for the rest of the world, internally it is faced with a range of challenges. The most serious of these is an attack from a power elite that has nominated itself the "true guardian of democratic values". [more]
The violence of participation
Spatial practices beyond models of consensus
An architectural response to the need to find a form of co-existence that enables conflict to work as a productive confrontation. Markus Miessen on the necessity to break with the "consensus machine" [more]
This blogging business nowadays
Spectacularization of the "blogosphere" and citizen journalism
The blogging movement's claim to empower the "netizen" is being undermined by the commercialization and professionalization of the "blogosphere". This necessitates a rethinking of the concept of citizen journalism, writes Krystian Woznicki. [more]
The art of not becoming accustomed to anything
Precarious employment in flexible capitalism
The vast reserve army of workers in precarious employment are the avant-garde of post-Fordism, constantly opening up new avenues for self-exploitation. [more]
In digital Death Valley
Net/Language - B@bel, Aymara.org, and the Internet as language graveyard
Campaigns for online multilingualism fail to see the Internet as an environment for the development of critical net-languages and so pre-empt the death of small languages. [more]
Participatory art
A paradigm shift from objects to subjects
The new tendency towards participatory art is a response to philosophical redefinitions of community and to demands to make visible marginalized groups. [more]
The end of the miserable quest for the self
Brain research, determinism, and new promises of salvation
Ten years ago, the Russian futurologist Leo Nefiodov predicted that the health industry would take over from information technology as a motor for growth. People started listening more to Nefiodov when the "New Economy" bubble burst. [more]
Islands in the Net
From non-places to reconquered anchorages of the avant-garde
With the spread of the Internet, utopia was given a location in cyberspace. It was just a question of exploring, surveying, and settling this new continent. [more]
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