A Gift for John Berger by Ali Smith
"John Berger is one of the world’s most vital corresponders" - Ali Smith introduces John Berger at a landmark British Library event.
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Antiquarian and Revolutionary: John Berger on Walter Benjamin
John Berger presents his singular engagement with one of his greatest enduring influences, the eclectic German critic and thinker Walter Benjamin.
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"Socio Psycho-mancy and the Horizon of Possibility" - an extract from Franco 'Bifo' Berardi's Futurability
In this extract from the introduction to Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi claims that chaos can be a catalyst for change.
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In 1971, the People Didn’t Just March on Washington — They Shut It Down
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Decolonising Desire: The Politics of Love
Dalia Gebrial examines the colonial scripts that encode people in and out of the possibility of love. Embedded within the constituent discourses of love – of desirability, emotional labour, support and commitment – are codes of social value assigned to certain bodies; of who is worthy of love’s work. The labour of decolonising these representative paradigms is structural, and involves addressing their material histories.
