In 2020, the entire world is facing the worst health crisis in recent history, and the EU is neither prepared nor united to face it. Glenda Arcia Since the first cases of non-imported Covid-19 were detected in the EU (28th January, in Germany), members of the bloc acted […]
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A metaphysics of presence: philosophy in corona-time
There are levels of response to Covid. We see increased expressions of commitment to others: e.g. volunteering with food deliveries, or sign-ups to community newsgroups. Steve Latham However, there is also the need for these same food deliveries, to families with parents laid-off, or ‘furloughed’ (where the money […]
Racism in photography
Visual representations of race are shot through with racist attitudes and “Decolonising the camera” examines this through a series of case studies. Sean Sheehan In 1945, Life magazine – a large-format (36cm by 26cm) and hugely influential publication – produced six pages of photographs showing the horrors that […]
A legacy of slavery: an inherited attitude of perpetrators vs. victims
What are the attitudes of both groups? What are the implications for social justice and for the healing of past hurts? Nigel Pocock Perpetrators: As you read this, people are screaming in pain, and longing for death. A torturer exercises his instrumental, and possibly, sadistic, will on them. […]
Pilar Navarrete: disappearance, torture, and execution of an innocent (II)
It was 27 hours of anguish that resulted in death, torture and disappearance in the lives of many. It happened in the Palace of Justice, between 6 and 7 November 1985, and stained the history of the Colombian people with blood. Years later, relatives of the disappeared are still asking where the disappeared are and who will punish those responsible for it?
















