Adolf Eichmann was a model of sparkling mental health, from a Nazi perspective. He did what any mature and sensible person would have done, to remove dangerous vermin that were destroying the health of the nation. Nigel Pocock Chemical therapies were applied to Soviet dissidents, who were self-evidently ill if […]
Tag: sexuality
Changing sexualities
In a post-structuralist, post-modern, cultural world, sexual identity as an idea has itself become questionable. Instead of a ‘natural’ sexual identity, the notion has developed that sexual identity is socially constructed. Steve Latham Before the nineteenth century homosexuals did not exist. Perhaps I should explain. Michel Foucault famously made the […]
María López: Homosexuality and literature in Cuba
In the last few years, the regime of Fidel Castro has introduced substantial changes with respect to sexual liberty, intending to eliminate the strain of institutional homophobia in the country, although discrimination is still present in certain areas. Benjamin Serra María E. López is an academic at London Metropolitan University […]
Lorca’s sleepless city: a vision of the financial crisis
What can we learn about the philosophy of capitalism from the poet and playwright, Garcia Lorca? Lorca’s engagement with modernity 70 years ago is all at once detached and anguished, enraged and reconciled, and ultimately unified through contradiction. _ Anna Kotenko I argue that through Lorca’s poetry we can learn […]