FAR AWAY FROM “SOLID MODERNITY” – interview with Zygmunt Bauman
“The discovery of the precarious position of the majority of middle classes (…) And indeed the increasing popularity of the notion of precariat were…
GLOBAL TRENDS 1
EXERCISING FREEDOM – interview with Judith Butler
Can we exercise freedom like we exercise our bodies? Do protesters have to use their bodies to occupy the public space to make their…
JOIN TOGETHER, DEMAND CHANGE AND RISK – interview with Guy Standing
Scientists and students, professional and manual workers, occupiers and those who remain at home; people with stable employment and those without, everyone who is…
JAN SOWA: MULTITUDE AS A SUBJECT OF DEMOCRATIC EVOLUTIONS. SEVERAL CONCLUSIONS FROM THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF A COLLECTIVE VOICE
Year 2011 was a significant turning point in the case of protest movements. This text is an analysis of the concept of multitude in…
TOBY MILLER: THE CHILDREN OF REAGAN’S HIPPIES
“The Global North recognized fifty years ago that its economic future lay in the finance capital and ideology, rather than agriculture and manufacturing” –…
ANNA VISVIZI: INDIGNADOS A FASHION PASSÉ?
“How democratic is their attempt at re-creating democracy out of their own” – that is one of the important questions which Anna Visvisi asks…
GERALD RAUNIG: THE MOLECULAR STRIKE
September 2011 a demonstration march through Lower Manhattan chooses as the destination of its dérive a small park near the enormous construction site of…
IZA DESPERAK: [UN]GRATEFUL SLAVE. GENDER DIMENSION OF THE “DANGEROUS CLASS” OF PRECARIAT
“Argued in the debate on democracy that economic hardship caused by austerity policies aggravates feelings of frustration with the crisis and dissatisfaction with policies…
JULIA OBINGER: JAPAN’S “LOST GENERATION.” A CRITICAL REVIEW OF FACTS AND DISCOURSES
What is Japan’s “lost generation?” How does that concept refer to the idea of precarity? Julia Obinger claims that social realities in Japan have…
IN FLUX: PRECARIOUS LABOUR AND FRAGILE HOPES – INTERVIEW WITH EWA JASIEWICZ
I don’t think it’s helpful to speak about the voiceless without enabling and facilitating that voice’ – says Ewa Jasiewicz. “It lacks credibility; it…
RETHINKING THE SYSTEM – interview with Sefanie Müller
“There does not exist pure capitalism, there does not exist a free economy. Everything is based on personal interest” – claims Stephanie Müller. An…
AMIRA BOCHEŃSKA: SPANISH DREAM
“Barcelona attracts people from all over the world; I’m also one of those who fell in love with this city” – personal view on…