“No more discipline, life’s magical” … has been singing in my head as I see colleagues laugh in the face of the absurd claims by the all-round absurdness that is university management.
Don’t focus on the reverberating sounds of the echo chamber, look at the structure that has formed it, before you even realised, and right before your eyes.
“Trump is the logical culmination of a culture: the narrator of a democratic apparatus that has come to conceal itself behind the mother of all TV shows: the US Presidency.”
Nice’s promenade follows on a long string of attacks against the dense and the banal: against the overlooked ordinary that comprises our daily existence.
The transformation of Victoria Square in Athens is emblematic of the new model of top-down control of populations that Europe is moving towards.
As Syriza capitulates to the creditors' demands, the question on everyone's lips is: will fear and resignation now preside? I hardly think so.
In its essence, Sunday's question is one of dignity and our lives from this point on.
Focus in Brazilian media has turned recently to the community of Villa Autódromo and its impending eviction to give way to Olympic constructions ahead of the Games next year. So nothing new here, then.
With Brazil on the brink of recession, it's not hard to compare the country's looming financial collapse with that of Greece, as the country is following in Greece’s pre-crisis footsteps in quite a few ways. From openDemocracy.
Why is nobody talking about Golden Dawn coming a sensational third in the Greek elections?
Will Syriza really dismantle the status quo in Greece?
The closure of official channels of debate and establishment of migrant detention camps in Athens, has been the capstone to a long process of turning people against the most vulnerable populations in cities and, by extension, against all that urban culture stands for.
