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Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Monday, March 26, 2012 15:01 - 0 Comments
Ideas">Screening Žižek: Laconic Axe vs Lobottonised Thought Ideas
In the second of his essays on "Screening Thought" Paul Taylor explores the wider constraints imposed on serious thinking by the media. Despite the problems caused by Zizek's popularity, his celebrity-intellectual persona still retains an important aspect of “the return of the repressed” - abstract thought's stubborn survival in a heavily mediated age.
Books, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, March 18, 2012 20:18 - 1 Comment
Books">Review: “Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx” Books
In 'Hermeneutic Communism', Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala offer a radical recasting of Marx’s theories that openly challenges calls, such as those by Negri and Hardt, for a return of the revolutionary left. Lev Marder argues this could be a Communist Manifesto for the 21st Century.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Monday, March 12, 2012 20:08 - 1 Comment
Ideas">Screening Žižek : on the decaffeination of provocative ideas Ideas
In the first of three essays on "Screening Thought", academic and author Paul Taylor draws upon his first-hand experience of giving a public talk with Slavoj Zizek to show how the media's worst tendencies risk being adopted by audiences who should know better.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, February 26, 2012 21:27 - 1 Comment
Comment">Malcom X: between theory and the riots Comment
It is through real life contexts, rather than theoretical abstractions, that we can best understand, and honour, the legacy of Malcolm X, write Jonathan Bennet and Adam Elliott-Cooper.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:00 - 64 Comments
Comment">Lowkey: Why I had to say no to Westwood TV Comment
Earlier this month, Lowkey, one of the UK’s leading hip hop artists, turned down an invitation to appear on TimWestwoodTV, the influential YouTube channel hosted by UK Hip Hop’s biggest name. In an exclusive piece, he explains why.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, January 13, 2012 13:49 - 2 Comments
Comment">Iraq – What was done in our name? Comment
Phil Shiner, one of the UK's leading human rights lawyers, argues we shouldn't forget that everything the world community abhors about US military actions, from Guantanamo Bay to this week's US Marines video scandal, is of a piece with UK policies and practices in Iraq, including, as he documents, the abuse, torture of killing of detainees.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, January 4, 2012 13:00 - 1 Comment
Interview">Larissa Sansour: “For Palestinians, politics is not just an option, but a fundamental circumstance.” Interview
Two weeks ago Lacoste pressurised the Musée de l’Elysée to withdraw an entry for the Prix Lacoste Elysée by Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour for being "too pro-palestinian". In an exclusive interview, she talks to Ceasefire deputy editor Musab Younis about the fall out.Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, December 29, 2011 19:10 - 0 Comments
Arts & Culture">Jonathan Swift: icon of 2011? Arts & Culture
Jonathan Jacobs argues that Swift's Irish Writings speak, with unusual precision, to a very current moment in resistance.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, December 23, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
Analysis">European Parliament: an unexpected victory for Western Sahara Analysis
The European Parliament's decision last week to end the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement is a historic one, argues Stefan Simanowitz.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, December 15, 2011 5:31 - 2 Comments
Politics">El Salvador: 30 Years after El Mozote Politics
Thirty years ago this week, almost 400 men, women and children from the El Salvador town of El Mozote were brutally tortured, raped and killed by US-trained governmental units who then burned their bodies and houses. As the country unites in remembrance, Sebastião Martins reflects on the historical legacy of the event.
