Modernism was a renaissance in the early twentieth century affecting different art forms around the world. Not coincidentally, it arose from the ashes of the destructive conflict of imperialist powers that produced World War I. Sean Sheehan Modernism is not to be conflated with modernity and its dustbinning […]
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What is Israel doing?
The leading causes of violent death worldwide among children under five years of age have been drowning, transport incidents, choking, fire and falls. Now there is another one, after choking and above fire: Israeli violence. The tragedy, says Eman Basher, “is not just in the lives lost but in the futures stolen”.
Working-class life
Merlin Daleman comes from England but he left it for a new life in the Netherlands. He returned to the land of his childhood to photograph, between 2017 and 2024, the post-Brexit, “economic north” of Britain. Sean Sheehan He finds a country where The Trussell Trust, a charity […]
How identity shapes the diaspora: history and significance
Latin American identity is a good example of the possibility of living together and the mixing of races, traditions and cultures. Migrations are formed in the convergence and divergence of Latin American culture with different cultures. This relationship with the “other” is simultaneously of acceptance and rejection. The diasporas have […]
Speculative thinking
Speculating is what gamblers and investors in a risky business proposition do but the word has another sense for the philosopher Hegel and it forms the core of “Reading Hegel”. Sean Sheehan What is retained from the ordinary meaning of the word is the idea of a bold […]
















