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The Bruno Latour paradox: from materialism to prophetic idealism

In this short article, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz explores the paradox of Bruno Latour's materialism as a historian and sociologist of science and his idealism as a philosopher of ecology.
The Crisis Is Sure to Come as a Surprise

Writing in 2010, Dmitrii Furman predicted that the 'imitation democracies' set up in post-Soviet countries would not last long.
Free Nûdem Durak and all political prisoners

Authors, actors, and music artists stand in solidarity with Kurdish singer Nûdem Durak who has been wrongly imprisoned since 2015. We demand that the Turkish government release her from prison immediately.
Silvio Berlusconi: Recreating the Italian right around himself

How one media tycoon exploited the changing of the guard in 1990s Italy and fashioned the right in his own image
Bodies Under Siege: Sian Norris & Edna Bonhomme

Sian Norris and Edna Bonhomme join Eleanor Penny to shed light on the disturbing relationship between the far right, misogyny, and the relentless assault on reproductive rights worldwide.
Making Fires Does You Good

Author Diaty Diallo on the lessons of street action and fire building in Paris during the protests against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms.
Translating Crooked Plow

"When people speak of this book in Brazil, they speak of it not only as a published novel but as an event, a happening, something of national importance." — Johnny Lorenz, translator.
The myth of the reforming monarch - Britain and the Gulf w/ David Wearing

The latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast.
A Message from Andreas Malm’s Publishers to the French State

Andreas Malm's publishers denounce the French government's invocation of Malm in its authoritarian decree dissolving the Soulèvements de la Terre.
Macron and the Civil War in France

Macron recently side-stepped France's Parliament to institute an unpopular, neoliberal law raising the country's pension age. But Macron is only the most visible symptom of a system that has become totally infected with neoliberalism.
La fabrique press release dated June 22, 2023

La fabrique has released a statement on the recent dissolution of Les Soulèvements de la Terre.
Press Release from Soulèvements de la Terre

In France, over the past two weeks, more than thirty arrests have been made in environmentalist circles, and attempts have been made to dissolve Les Soulèvements de la Terre, despite the fact that more than 100,000 people have publicly claimed to belong to the movement, and despite the support of dozens of trade unions, farmers' organisations, associations, parties, MPs, senators and intellectuals.