In Europe, we live in a laboratory petri dish of the future. The problems we face represent the future of the planet, culturally and naturally. Steve Latham For instance, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari posited the multiplication of multiplicities; the production of new subjectivities and identities. These possibilities […]
Author: ThePrisma
Cooking with Jane Austen
As all Jane Austen groupies will tell you, the people that inhabit her small but perfectly formed body of work are as real and immediate to us they were to Austen’s contemporaries. Sean Sheehan We all know a Mr Collins and it is a truth universally acknowledged that […]
US versus Cuba: point of no-return
Four years ago, on a Friday in June, as President, Donald Trump abrogated Obama’s presidential directive on normalising the ties with the island and signed a memorandum abolishing most of the progress made in the relations with Cuba. Such actions established a turning point for both nations. Karina Marrón […]
The myth of global Britain: Brexit and British isolationism
When the UK voted to leave the EU in June of 2016, it was due in part to a culmination of decades of anti-EU sentiment and an increasing desire within the UK to return to a time of supremacy, of independence. But however much Britain might wish to separate itself ideologically from Europe, the facts of physical and historical position remain.
The battle between truth and lies
More than two decades ago, Prensa Latina was born. The continent’s first alternative media against the big information monopolies. Orlando Oramas Leon It emerged in June 1959 as a need to broadcast the truth of what was happening in Cuba. It was the time of a ferocious campaign […]