Here's a little taste of what you can expect from the second installment of openDemocracy's Discourses series, Financial Crisis and its representation, opening this Thursday, July 8th at 6pm.
Technology should have improved access to knowledge much further than it has, and nowhere more so than in the academe. Here is a simple and low-cost proposal to democratise learning in the UK
Rahul Rao takes a slightly different position on Sex and the City 2
Moscow’s superb legacy of Constructivist architecture has suffered since Neo-Classicism became the official style in the 1930s. But thanks to President Medvedev's intervention, the house of Konstantin Melnikov, one of Russia’s most important architectural masterpieces, looks set to become a State
Identity has emerged as one of the most pressing questions of our time. Travis Jeppesen looks at how the Berlin exhibition, "Angst.Macht.Raum" (Part 1), addressed the global spread of a normative "western" identity through a politics of fear.
After decades of repression, Siberia’s shamans are re-emerging. Ken Hyder is a musician who performs with a Tuvan shaman. His novel describes the culture of contemporary shamanism as it emerges after decades of repression. Part one of three.
Is it possible for Life-Writing to actually present authentic truths, or do they always fall into the betrayal of inauthenticity? Heidi James-Dunbar looks into these questions while putting forward her case for Autofiction.
Writer Travis Jeppesen reflects on the tactic of "bad writing" and the creative process involved in the writing of his upcoming novel, The Suiciders. UPDATE: Now with an extract from Jeppesen's The Suiciders
A brief theoretical look at how Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's philosophy of becoming-wolf can be applied to art theory and critique in the context of openDemocracy's up-coming event, One or Several Wolves: multiplicities and packs in art.
Russia has lost a great dissident campaigner for Moscow’s built heritage with the death of David Sarkisyan, museum director, film impresario, scientist and aesthete
openDemocracy is launching a new quarterly series of live art events featuring art exhibitions and discussions on a wide array of social, cultural and political issues.
openDemocracy author Heather McRobie speaks with Ollie Brock about her upcoming novel where she looks at both Radovan Karadzic – who is standing trial for war crimes during the Serbian genocide of 1994 – and 19th-century philologist Vuk Karadzic
