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Racism in photography

Visual representations of race are shot through with racist attitudes and “Decolonising the camera” examines this through a series of case studies.   Sean Sheehan   In 1945, Life magazine – a large-format (36cm by 26cm) and hugely influential publication – produced six pages of photographs showing the horrors that […]

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The communist imperative

There are lessons to learn from the current pandemic and one of them – the need for radical thinking, authority and discipline – underlies Žižek’s recent articles in the public media. They have been substantially rewritten for “A left that dares to speak its name”.   Sean Sheehan   He […]