U rano jutro 25. aprila 1959. desetak maskiranih muškaraca u bijelim rukavicama ušetalo je u Okružni zatvor Pearl River u Poplarvilleu, Mississippi. Pustio ih je jedan od čuvara, i odveo do ćelije u kojoj je ležao 23-godišnji Crni vozač kamiona Mack Charles Parker,...
Twee jaar geleden gaf mijn lichaam er de brui aan. ‘Burn-out’, zei de huisarts, terwijl hij keurig een briefje schreef om al mijn professionele activiteiten te staken. Zijn blik gaf aan dat ik zijn handtekening nog wel meer nodig zou...
Stilte, ‘Ik wil naar u toekomen en een of twee minuten zwijgen.’ In het vierde zogenaamde index-gedicht in de bundel Mijn Tegenstem (1973) van Hugues C. Pernath is tijd niet alleen een uitdrukking van verlangen. Regels als ‘Deze voormiddag, of morgenavond...
Aseksualna i aromantična zajednica oduvijek su se nezasluženo nalazile na nezahvalnome mjestu unutar psihologije, sociologije i medicine. Ove se zajednice istovremeno ne proučava dovoljno i navodi ih se kao devijantne zajednice čija se „stanja“ trebaju liječiti, što prava iskustva aseksualnih...
Seksualni ratovi, nazvani i feminističkim, lezbijskim ili pornografskim ratovima, naziv su za rasprave na feminističkoj sceni krajem drugog vala feminizma. U drugom valu osobno postaje političko i feministički se pokret bavi temama reproduktivnih prava, braka i svih vrsta nasilja nad...
My Penguin Classics copy of Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi sits alone atop an overfull shelf. There is a bookmark on page 204, exactly halfway through, torn from an in-flight duty-free catalog—whiskey and fancy pens. It tells me “hey,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd8yQE4S6pQ Brian Eno once said of the Velvet Underground that their first album sold only 30,000 copies, but everyone who bought one started a band. Joy Division’s debut Unknown Pleasures sold only 20,000 copies in its initial period of release,...
In an issue of Revue Projet (France) exploring our diverse relationships to forests, Alain Karsenty writes on the ‘mirage of offsetting’: the idea that planting or protecting forests can compensate for carbon emissions. Companies like talking about ‘carbon neutrality’ because...
On 18 October 2024, artists and scientists gathered at the Université libre de Bruxelles to explore the possibilities of ArtScience, ‘a space for the co-construction, integration, and transformation of knowledge, practices and mindsets’. In La Revue Nouvelle (Belgium), Raoul Sommeillier,...
When the first volume of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf was released on 18 July 1925, the book market was in deep crisis and the publisher didn’t expect much. Yet over 10 million copies of Hitler’s book were sold in Germany...
