Eurozine Review

An optimistic take on AI aesthetics; the destruction of Vilnius during the Soviet Union; the arrested development of Lithuanian urban culture; searching for a father killed in 1941.

In the 50th issue of Atlas: a cautionary tale about the manosphere; gentrification myths; a meditation on authority, power and cultural ownership; freedom despite war.

Contradictions and possibilities of the state: neo-neoliberalism versus state capitalism; census-taking and the state imagination; the politicization of childbearing; James C. Scott’s anarchist squint.

Palestinian historiography as struggle against erasure; a film about narrative and loss; Standing Together; debate as the first step to a renewed political imagination.

The demonisation of mental illness; eugenics, disability and gender; age and (in)ability in socialist Bulgaria; family values and the identitarian right.

End-times narratives and the end of narrative: storytelling as story-selling; zombie fiction for Derrideans; resisting teleology.

Beyond Beck’s risk society; manufacturing uncertainty; leftist survivalism; Dufourmantelle vs. Anders; love, risk and polyamory.

How the Iranian regime co-opts women’s football; Snyder on Carney’s Havel; a poet on the beauty of sign language.

Why the rules-based order was never pure fiction; how Europe can remain non-aligned; lessons from Greenland.

Why human rights still matter, of course; Lukashenka’s neo-Soviet sexism; Ukraine’s election dilemma.

The challenge of regulating AI when it cannot be defined; AI and the devaluation of work; AI and the future of productivity; why engineered anthropomorphism is here to stay.

Learning from the past in the age of singularity; teaching history without lecturing; the uses of history of science; the enduring appeal of political history; Marcel Gauchet.

Russia’s ambicolonial war of cultural erasure; the democratisation of Ukrainian national defence; the imagined Orient of the Soviet underground; literature and the vernacular.

On the emancipatory gap between words and things; language, authority and resistance; metaphors of politics; educators under strain.

Contrarian pleasures; the art of science; parameters of the erotic; poetry as ongoing experiment.

Focus on the 20th-century Croatian poet and novelist Antun Šoljan: literary translation and political subversion; intertextuality and Socratic irony; Mediterranean humanism; a denim Homer.