In its latest issue, Flemish–Belgian journal rekto:verso delves into the politics and aesthetics of fitness. From strength training and bodybuilding to pole dancing and yoga, it examines how fitness practices both reinforce neoliberal values and dominant beauty standards, as well...
Belgian journal La Revue nouvelle offers insights into the conflicts in Middle East. ‘Neutrality is neither possible nor desirable’, says the journal, but we can try to ‘better understand the context that produced these events’. In a dossier entitled ‘Moyen-Orient...
My own body had begun to interest me in a new way… Those infamous doses of endorphins would surge through my limbs… This, finally, meant truly living in the body, enjoying movement. (Catriona Menzies-Pike) As befits a self-proclaimed intellectual, physical...
War tells many stories, and this is one of them. On 5 April 2025, artist and soldier Marharyta Polovinko was killed while serving on the frontline of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. She was 31 years old. Her death is...
‘You want content verifiers working with us? The media represent the biggest bunch of hypocrites you can imagine. Journalists don’t need fact checking, they need moral backbone!’ Iwona’s critique may be strong, but it isn’t spurious; she used to work...
I wanna look like what I am but don’t know what someone like me looks like. I mean, when people look at me, I want them to think “there’s one of those people that has their own interpretation of happiness”....
Right now, the dominant narrative of those that occupy political and economic power-centres, and those whose careers and lives are wedded to militaries, is that a new world war is looming, and that we need to get ready. One person...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqHkfesAduQ Digital publishing has turned many journalists into mere line workers in the content production industrial complex. But what about the young journalists embarking on this professional mission today? This discussion was inspired by Paulina Januszewska’s book Bullshit journalism, whose...
The remembrance of the Second World War has shifted significantly in recent decades – and even more dramatic reinterpretations appear to be underway in our current moment of drastic uncertainty. More than three years since Russia launched its full-scale war...
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