Every formally considered identity is an ontological category that affirms the permanence of being. Identity is not a label or an inert concept, it is a vital force that impels us to the realization of an ideal and goes through encounters and disagreements, victories and defeats, advances and setbacks. […]
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Tradition and immigrants in Whitechapel
During the final years of the 19th Century it was the scene of the crimes of Jack the Ripper. It has since become a peaceful and picturesque area inhabited, mostly, by the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities of London. Benjamin Serra Anyone who takes the District or Hammersmith & […]
Anti-system art: organising outside the State
Impact strategies (visual, auditory…) as a form of struggle for some social movements today are not always effective against the system that they are critical of. The danger of these methods is that the epidermal impacts are merely substitutes for profound changes. It is what the popular wisdom would describe […]
Lula and Maduro reboot regional integration
Brasilia summit. In a blow to US hegemony, the revival of Unasur at a summit of 13 Latin American leaders demonstrates the region’s shift back to the left and the rehabilitation of Venezuela. Francisco Dominguez* Brazil’S President Lula invited all 13 presidents from South America to a summit […]
The horrible marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Knowing what is going on between two people who are living together is fraught with difficulties per se and when the couple happen to be Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, a relationship that ended with her suicide, the problem of secure knowledge reaches an impasse. Sean Sheehan We […]
















