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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, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, March 25, 2012 11:53 - 0 Comments
Books">Review: ‘Economic Policy and Human Rights: Holding Governments to Account’ Books
Are particular economic policies responsible for human rights abuses? Do governments have legal obligations to pursue economic policies that protect human rights? Should economic success be measured via human rights rather than mere growth? Leoni Linek reviews an important new volume on the subject.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Saturday, March 24, 2012 6:15 - 2 Comments
Special Report">Portuguese strike and march against austerity plan Special Report
Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins reports exclusively from Lisbon on yesterday's general strike and popular marches against austerity measures, and the heavy crackdown by riot police that left protesters and journalists injured.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, March 22, 2012 23:50 - 1 Comment
Special Report">Toulouse and the French election Special Report
Ceasefire's Sam Nallen Copley reports from Paris on the French presidential election race and the impact this week's unfolding tragedy in Toulouse might have on the result.
Counterpoetics, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, March 21, 2012 8:45 - 1 Comment
Counterpoetics">INTO MORDOR Counterpoetics
March's offering from Ceasefire's poet-in-residence Dominic Fox.
Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 22:12 - 0 Comments
Music">Review: Dilated Peoples (Islington Academy) Music
Formed two decades ago, LA HipHop collective Dilated Peoples are still going strong. Adam Elliott-Cooper went to see them perform at the Islington Academy.
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.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Friday, March 16, 2012 22:11 - 0 Comments
Special Report">Bloody Sunday in Afghanistan Special Report
Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins reports on the events and aftermath of Sunday's deadly attack by a US soldier that resulted in the death of sixteen Afghan civilians.
Ceasefire Bites, Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Monday, March 12, 2012 21:53 - 2 Comments
Blog">Poll: Half Alabama & Mississippi voters think Obama is a Muslim Blog
A poll published today reveals a third of Alabama and Mississippi voters say interracial marriage should be made illegal, whereas half think Obama is a Muslim, and two thirds do not believe in evolution. Hicham Yezza asks: is it time for humanitarian intervention?
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.
