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Cover for: Nero in Washington

For those watching closely, Musk’s ‘Roman salute’ at the inauguration parade wasn’t the only portent of America’s imminent descent into tyranny. Art historian Konstantin Akinsha on Trump’s tawdry imperialism.

Cover for: Rituals of resistance

Ritual as anti-art: for Jay Jordan, ecological activism is a form of ritual whose reciprocal nature distinguishes it from the individualism of the ‘extractivist’, gallery-based artwork.

Cover for: Losing privileges

Losing privileges

Young people struggling with screentime

Some governments use legal restrictions to battle social media use; others leave families and individuals to self-regulate. Who’s responsible for young people’s addiction problems?

Cover for: A nation in waiting

Political failures after independence allowed Belarusian society to become captive to the pro-Russian state. As Lukashenka enters his seventh term, five years after crushing the peaceful revolution, what lessons can the opposition take?

Cover for: More than 24/7

From regular TV coverage to constant online streaming, war imagery is so profuse it makes for compulsive viewing that appears to have already reached a pinnacle of disassociation. Meanwhile, the imaging technologies behind war have developed to the point of supposedly ‘predicting’ violence, threatening to occupy the future. And what is left of the real world in their wake?

Cover for: Postcolonial laboratories

The technological link between the rifle and the film camera, the medial links between the Gulf War and Star Wars, the colonial history of bombs – piecing together historical and contemporary fragments reveals an image of Kurdistan as a testing ground for military technology unleashed without responsibility for its consequences.

Cover for: Why are books so boring now?

The conglomerate publishing industry sets conservative parameters on what it considers will sell. Repeating a winning ‘trending’ formula is high up on its list. But blobby, multi-coloured book covers lining supermarket shelves aren’t the only result of industry homogenization – independent presses are negotiating gaps in the market, spearheading literary excellence.

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Capitalism’s nervous breakdown

A conversation between Dessy Gavrilova and Albena Azmanova

Competitive labour markets, whether private or public, often set profit margins over employment rights. Job insecurity and new forms of exploitation are on the rise. As is the Far Right, cashing in on resultant worker anxieties. Is there a way out of this ‘precarity’, tormenting the overworked and underpaid?

Cover for: Muslim voices in Europe

The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has brought a sigh of relief to the international community – not least because we love to avoid discussing, even thinking about this conflict. Why is that? In this Standard Time episode we talk about anti-muslim racism and how to understand what’s happened in Gaza. 

Cover for: Ethnonationalism in a multipolar world

Trump’s imperial ambitions are forcing the EU to rethink its global position. And European far-right parties, swollen on fears of diminishing world power, are paradoxically flogging the ethnic nation as a place of shelter. But finding unity in scapegoating migrants blatantly fails to recognize the need for a common purpose in times of worldwide uncertainty.

Cover for: Something other than blood

Momentous news for Gaza: a ceasefire agreement between the Israeli government and Hamas. Palestinian war artists speak about their creative responses to documenting loss; their digital artwork reaching out beyond the confines of war, received by those who support their resilience.

Cover for: Excitement over ‘rare’ elements

Excitement over ‘rare’ elements

Julie Klinger in conversation with Misha Glenny 

The race for green transition supplies is on. But where’s the thrill in metals, discreet and hidden yet widespread? Mining, intensive due to low concentrations, throws up waste elements like arsenic. Space cowboys and deep-sea dredgers contest environmental stability more than China’s monopoly, based on 40-years of involved processing. Health and recycling regulations are a must.

Cover for: Unmasking hate

Unmasking hate

21st century iterations of Antisemitism

Once again, the age-old prejudice is rising in Europe and producing new mutations. In this episode of Standard Time, we discuss how to tell criticism from hate.

Cover for: The battle over Serbia’s lithium

Plans to exploit Serbia’s lithium, seemingly shelved two years ago, are back on the table. Germany and the EU appear willing to overlook president Aleksandar Vučić’s abuses of power to access the precious metal. Will their double-standards collaboration with Serbia’s right-wing government undermine citizen trust in EU accession?

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