Wars have many beginnings, but they refuse to end — history is merciless in giving this lesson to us again and again. Amid the ten-year Russian war in Ukraine, this thought is unbearable. Despite all odds, we need the idea...
Synen har sedan länge gärna betraktats som människans främsta och ädlaste sinne. Det har lämnat spår i språket, som i meningen precis före den här: att betrakta något är både att se på det och att tänka på det. Jag...
Säg att du går ut för att köpa en ny vinterjacka. Du har en begränsad budget och efter att ha suttit och surfat har du fattat ett antal beslut i förväg: jackan måste ha en viss tjocklek, inga fåniga dragskor...
Kapitalizem ni več svetel žarek: nekoč vplivne države so tik pred tem, da se vpišejo med gospodarstva tretjega sveta; razvijajoče se sile nič več ne stremijo k viziji Zahoda o napredku. Bi bilo mogoče ob izogibanju uničevanju okolja najti uspešno alternativo...
Europe’s high-tech arsenal of border technologies is often narrated as a futuristic tale of light, speed and computing power. Identification systems such as the Eurodac database store, process and compare the digitized fingerprints of migrants using near-infrared light, fibre optic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L7-PdwVK0o The universal experience of excretion has been with us for millennia, yet the topic is considered taboo in many cultures. Though some people are attempting to confront the feelings of shame that come up when talking about it,...
On 20 March, at the opening ceremony for the annual Leipzig Book Fair, the 2024 Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding was awarded to New School philosopher Omri Boehm for his book Radikaler Universalismus (Radical Universalism) (Propyläen Verlag, 2022). During...
Since the collapse of socialism, demographic change has emerged as one of the biggest Rashomons of contemporary societies, especially in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Understood as a palpable concern by some and dismissed as a political construct by others,...
Since when was it right to round up people to push through on an inhumane political drive? Now that the suspect Rwanda bill has become law in the UK, government plans to detain asylum seekers are being accelerated. Today marks...
Decadent, transgressive, colonial, queer – these are just some of the adjectives one could use to describe late-nineteenth-century Baltic-German literature. Vikerkaar’s latest issue on queer histories appears simultaneously with an exhibit of Baltic-German queer art at Tallinn’s KUMU Art Museum....
