NATALYA RYABINSKA: UKRAINIAN EUROMAIDAN PROTESTS AND THE NEW MEDIA
In late 2013, eight years after the Orange Revolution Ukraine has again become the site of mass protests, this time against the government’s decision…
GLOBAL TRENDS
A STORY WILL ALWAYS MATTER – interview with Kirsten Johnson
Her film Pray the devil back to hell brought the Liberian Women’s Struggle for Peace to light. A year later the discussion on female…
COUNTERFORCE TOWARD SIMPLIFICATIONS – interview with Paul Hansen
“Documentary photography is among the hardest, and most rewarding professions there is” – claims photojournalist Paul Hansen. Although his labor has been rewarded many…
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…