In last week’s The Prisma, Claudio Chipana Gutiérrez made the case for positive forms of identity and Louisa Yousfi in “In defence of barbarism: Non-whites against the Empire” does something similar by defending the value of barbarism. Sean Sheehan Reading Kateb Yacine, the writer who came from the […]
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Domestic violence: the long road to freedom
A film made for cinemas is especially original because it forms part of an upcoming mini-series about refuges for women suffering from domestic violence. The violence may have stopped, but the feelings of loss of personal space and even identity are new challenges to be grappled with in unfamiliar surroundings. […]
Germany and Israel and ground zero
Everyone knows that the world is wildly out of sync with human needs and aspirations. Ground zero is the point, not reached by those shamelessly benefitting from it, when a sense of futility sends us into a descending spiral of despondency. Sean Sheehan It is also the point […]
A book for our times: “The aesthetics of resistance”
The three parts of “The aesthetics of resistance” by Peter Weiss were published between 1975 and 1981 in German. The first English translation of Volume I appeared in 2005, the second volume fifteen years later and now the final part is available. Sean Sheehan Between them, the three […]
Downriver: memory and exile in the waters of Glasgow
A story of migration, bridges, portraits and the rubble of modernity and progress. Filmmaker Victor Diago converts Glasgow into a living archive, where memory, forgetfulness and past crimes mix under a persistent rain. For a mediterranean person, Glasgow holds a magic in the midst of a harsh greyness. A dialogue between present and past.
















