Eurozine Review

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.

Late capitalism and the commodification of calm; flotation tanks and the illusion of autonomy; emancipatory muteness in late 20th-century feminist fiction; performative silence in the work of Marina Abramović.

Speculative cartography and the rediscovery of suppressed urban histories; community resistance and the conservation of Checkpoint Charlie; solarpunk and slower, more communal forms of life.

Live action role-playing in the Czech Republic: on the evolution of a not-so-niche cultural phenomenon; auto-drama and the thrill of borrowed life; military reenactments; the LARPization of politics.

The therapists helping people break from organized religion; how far-right Christian influencers are luring men into misogyny; the dignity and defiance of Belarusian women; rewilding and its perils.

War writing and the breakdown of the ability to narrate; defending democracy versus defending territory; Hollywood and 9/11; Charlotte Delbo’s theatre of survival.