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Fascist Identity Politics

By John Foster
Posted on 11 June 202115 June 2021
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Nationalism is back. Commemorating the Hanau killings, Berlin.

Nationalism has been the most influential politics in Europe since the dawn of the 19th century (to say nothing for the moment about the wider world). (More…)

Norwegian Science Fiction

By Charlie Bertsch
Posted on 2 June 20212 June 2021
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Abu Amar lives. East Jerusalem, May 2018.

HBO’s new cinematic adaptation of J.T. Rogers’ Tony award-winning play Oslo is consistently entertaining. (More…)

Rage Against the Machines

By John Foster
Posted on 28 May 202128 May 2021
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This was a factory. Parco Dora, Torino.

Technology is so thoroughly imbricated in our lives that questioning it has become taboo. Particularly on the left, where it’s synonymous with the emancipation of labour. (More…)

Anti-Populist Italy

By Charlie Bertsch
Posted on 21 May 202122 May 2021
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Burn down the border. Mercato Centrale, Torino.

The recent Italian films The Life Ahead (La vita davanti a sé) and Mom to Hundreds (Tutto il giorno davanti) thematise the plight of underage migrants from the developing world, seeking to extract maximum sentiment from audiences. (More…)

Neoliberalism Will Set You Free

By John Foster
Posted on 14 May 202114 May 2021
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Lost his shirt. Berlin, April 2021.

For a book with LSD in the title and an image of a tab on the cover, there is remarkably little about Michel Foucault’s notorious drug experience in Death Valley. (More…)

When the Tough Get Softer

By Charlie Bertsch
Posted on 5 May 20216 May 2021
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Deterritorialising Italian Rap. 7 Miliardi, 2019.

Unlike so many of the records that fall under the rubric of rap these days, Massimo Pericolo’s Solo Tutto remembers what the term originally meant. (More…)

Gods of the Realm

By John Foster
Posted on 30 April 202130 April 2021
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Cops and Kurds. Berlin, April 2021.

The conviction of Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd has been presented by American media as an important step in addressing police violence against people of colour. (More…)

When Machines Sing

By Charlie Bertsch
Posted on 21 April 202122 April 2021
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Don't call them Cyborgs. Mouse on Mars, 2014.

AAI, the new album by storied German electronic group Mouse on Mars, is the rare concept album in which form and content are equals. (More…)

Colonial Subjects Forever

By Charlie Bertsch
Posted on 9 April 202111 April 2021
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Waiting for the French to leave. Hanoi, 1954.

“Why should I worry about deviating from the masses when I am also me and myself? Am I not a mass? Am I not already a collective? Do I not contain multitudes?” (More…)