I plead guilty to the indictment of avowed optimism. We have entered an age of resistance for which we must build an analytics. New forms, strategies and subjects of resistance and insurrection appear regularly without knowledge of or guidance from Badiou, Zizek or Negri.
Review: Crisis-Scape's new film invites us in to the shadows of Athens, a city tenuously held together by state imposed order, privatisation, anxiety and violence.
Watch: What impact does a global financial crisis have on everyday life in the city? Crisis-Scape's final 35' documentary film traces the multiple transformations of crisis-ridden Athenian public space and those who traverse it.
The factors that contribute to the inexorable rise of fascism in societies, described here, have to be identified, understood and undermined by critical theory as soon as they occur, so that political action can confront them.
In recent days, there has been more and more talk about a new phenomenon that threatens people and animals, the life and the existence of the planet. This phenomenon is
The head of the Greek police was secretly recorded saying that asylum seekers who land in Greece must be made to reside in "unliveable" conditions before being "repatriated".
Greece is a nation afflicted with polarized political forces. Could the Greek Green Party’s latest MEP nomination foment anti-Israeli sentiments and escalate this polarisation? What does the European Green Party have to say?
In recent days, the issue of terrorism has hit the headlines again in Greece. Specifically, a member of one of the biggest terrorist organizations in Greece escaped from prison. As
Walking on the street we often confront people whose faces are full of sadness and dissatisfaction. They walk in an imperious way and it looks like something troubles them. But
‘If representative democracy is only to choose every four, or five, or six years the person who’s going to do everything they want without taking popular will into account... we are in a sort of trap and I think that’s certainly the case today for Europe and elsewhere.’
What is to happen in Greece in the forthcoming European elections, which, not without a certain irony of history, will take place while this country holds the EU presidency? Euro elections landscape, 2014.
The latest mutation of the neoliberal doctrine is turning Greece into a real life dystopia, but resistance can still save the day.
