In the first part of the series Unlearning Decisive Moments of Photography, Ariella Azoulay urges us to unlearn the knowledge that calls upon us to account for photography as having its own origins, histories, practices, or futures, and to explore it as part of the imperial world that we operate in.
Antony Lerman on the need to understand the history of the current attempt to define antisemitism.
Nandini Sundar on the recent attempts to silence those who have raised their voice against the abuse of state power in Modi's India.
London’s violence ‘epidemic’ is increasingly discussed as a problem contained amongst young Black men. Becka Hudson argues that this framing fails to stand up to scrutiny, and that its repetition is facilitating racist, draconian state responses to the problem.
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Sophie Lewis discusses trans-exclusionary feminists, their traducing of lesbian separatism and gay liberation history, their attachment to the unscientific imaginary of human sex dimorphism, and The Handmaid's Tale with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
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Ula Taylor, Barbara Ransby, and Charlene Carruthers discuss race, gender, and the contradictions of capitalism.
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This critique of identity is absolutely and emphatically not a proposal that race should be put second or waved away. It is an insistence on recognizing the material reality of race as a social relation, and forming a more adequate theoretical understanding of it that can be useful for struggles against racism.
The main reason to look back at the history of the New Communist Movement is to glean any lessons that can be useful for rebuilding a revolutionary left under today’s dramatically changed conditions.
Elaine Mokhtefi's account of a time when, having just overthrown French occupation, the city was a "Mecca for revolutionaries." Now 40% off until Sunday, September 2 at 11:59pm EST.