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Israel: Language clouds reality
“Every Israeli offensive into Gaza bears a name that delivers a message meant not only for those locked up there, but also for others in Israel and the rest of the world. What do these names tell us?...
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33. Jim Stewart-Evans
Poet. Lives in Nottingham, England It is framed by the evolving landscape that we find ourselves in today, I have been using a blue-sky-thinking-group To helicopter above day-to-day issues And perform...
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Outsourcing and the shadow state
Alan White: “Here’s a list of things that one company, Serco, operates: prisons and young offenders institutions. The National Nuclear Laboratory. Transport services like the Docklands Light Railway...
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LibArts London Summer School
“What shall we choose? Weight or lightness?” Milan Kundera’s question sets the scene for our summer school. Kundera says that the heavier the burden we carry, the more truthful our lives become. The...
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National security must be re-politicised
Why politics should not stop at the water’s edge In Issue 9 of Jacobin, Corey Robin argues that the issue of security should be put back on the political agenda. He doesn’t tease out all the...
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Obama drones on about imminent threats
The Justice Department white paper released on Monday by NBC News is the public’s first direct glimpse at the legal reasoning that the Obama administration relied on in using a drone strike to kill...
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Why do students find it so difficult to argue against cuts at UWE?
Reflections on a YouTube video in which several students of the University of the West of England question the possible scrapping of its Politics and International Relations courses By Herselman...
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What is democracy?
This interview with Jacques Rancière was translated into English from French via Spanish. With thanks to the translator. Rancière: “In Europe we have got used to identifying democracy with the double...
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Rancière on Subversion
Art and Politics: Questioning the Sensible By Herselman Hattingh, Published on 26 April 2013 The artist and the schoolmaster For art to be properly subversive, it must undermine, overthrow and destroy...
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Propaganda: Power and Persuasion
An exhibition on international state propaganda from the 20th and 21st centuries. The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Until 17 September 2013 Visit their website “Propaganda is all...
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Compromise and the tension between peace and justice
Read the introductory chapter of Avishai Margalit’s On Compromise and Rotten Compromises. “… rotten compromises are not allowed, even for the sake of peace. … I see a rotten political compromise as an...
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