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  • CALL FOR PAPERS: Decolonial Thinking and Revolutionary Events

    Goldsmiths, University of London, March 8 and 9, 2023, London In the last decades, decolonial thinking has been reterritorializing corners of academia, producing a series of dislocations in our relationship to knowledge and socially constructed reality. In doing so, it has exposed the imprints of coloniality on thinking whilst looking for avenues to rid experience…

  • Algerians’ Anti-French Attitude: A Postcolonial Reaction?

    Algerians’ Anti-French Attitude: A Postcolonial Reaction?  

    Last month, Algeria hosted the 19th edition of the Mediterranean Games in the city of Oran. One particular incident that marked this event was when Algerian fans in the stadium— mostly young people—who were watching a football match during which Algeria was playing against France, lacked respect for the French team by whistling their national…

  • Reality is Trolling You: The Farcical Nightmare of Post-Trump America

    Reality is Trolling You: The Farcical Nightmare of Post-Trump America

    To be an American, picking your way through the debris field of what used to be, at least nominally, a democracy—before Trump and his confederacy of dunces defiled, corrupted, plundered, pimped, sabotaged, and otherwise destabilized it from within—is to live in a nation permanently on edge, a nation whose nervous system has been short-circuited by…

  • “The Festival of Fools,” Pieter van der Heyden (ca. 1525–1569), after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum. Nominative Determinism

    Nomen est Omen: When Your Name Says the Quiet Part Loud

    What do names tell us about people — and what should we have known about Trump? Nominative determinism: the gift that keeps giving. The term, coined by the British science journalist John Hoyland, in a 1994 New Scientist column, refers to the (purely hypothetical) tendency to pursue a calling or, more broadly, embody an attribute…

  • Sri-lanka 2022 crisis

    Sri Lanka’s Crisis 2022

     In early 2022, years of simmering economic problems reached a boiling point and sparked a months-long wave of peaceful public protests across the island nation. The cabinet capitulated quickly, resigning en masse on 3 April 2022. The Governor of the Central Bank and the Secretary of the Treasury also quit their positions, leaving then-President Gotabaya…

“The Festival of Fools,” Pieter van der Heyden (ca. 1525–1569), after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum. Nominative Determinism
July 24, 2022 Mark Dery

Nomen est Omen: When Your Name Says the Quiet Part Loud

January 21, 2022 Inna Pravdenko feat. Elena Malysheva

Ukraine + Russia = Love? If Countries Were People

September 23, 2021 Michael Dutton

100 Years of the CCP

September 4, 2021 Gregory B. Lee with Patrick Poon

HONG KONG: THE DECOLONIZATION THAT NEVER HAPPENED

Who Translated Fanon
October 25, 2020 Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

Who Translated Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth into Persian?

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