Screening and discussion with filmmaker Manuela Zechner: ‘Remembering Europe: a journey into the future of crisis.’
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2040 and the sun is shining: does anybody remember Europe? This … |
The Anthropocene Myth
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Blaming all of humanity for climate change lets capitalism off the hook.by Andreas MalmLast year was the hottest year ever recorded. And yet, the latest figures show that in 2013 the source that provided the most new … |
Thanatopolitics in Greece: when a fascist ruling the ministry of health handles public health over to a private business
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Another organized crime-act, performed under the austerity pre-text, legitimized by the punitive rationales of conservatives and neoliberal economics. Thanatos [than–uh-tos, -tohs], meaning ‘death’ in Greek. Thanatopolitics is a philosophical term that discusses the politics organizing … |
Slavoj Žižek on The Act of Killing and the modern trend of “privatising public space”
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Source: NewStatesman
The documentary film “The Act of Killing” asks Indonesian death-squad leaders to re-enact their crimes for the camera. They boast openly about their massacres as we observe the real effects of living a fiction. The documentary The … |
We should not live as slaves!
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A film by Yannis Youlountas August 2013 / Duration: 89 minutes Springing from the Greek catacombs of Europe, a murmur through the devastated continent, “We won’t live like slaves no more” (pronounced “Na min zisoumé Douli san” in Greek). On … |
The Battle for Power on the Internet
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Bruce Schneider, cryptography and online security expert, gives us a glimpse of the direction the internet it taking, and shares some of the context we should keep in mind. Without making any deep critique of the capitalist power structures, Schneider … |
Goodbye growth
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Written by Giorgos Kolempas Image by Clifford Harper The globalized capitalist economy, in both previous and present crises, knows how to put forward only three identical goals: Enlargment! Expansion! Growth! The political exponents constantly repeat the same words: if we … |
The IMF’s “mistakes” on Greece are nothing new
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by Jerome Roos on June 10, 2013 at roarmag The IMF’s self-admitted errors in the Greek bailout were not just “mistakes”: they were the deliberate reproduction of a classical ideological script.
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The dark dawn of Greek neo-fascism
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by Panagiotis Sotiris at Overland (http://overland.org.au) For the past three years Greece has faced a social disaster. The draconian austerity packages imposed under the bailout agreements with the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central … |
A note on the process of accumulation through dispossession planned for Cyprus
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The recent so-called ’rescue’ plan for Cyprus, as organized by the Europgroup, based on the confiscation of a percentage of all bank savings in the Cypriotic banks, shows once again the obvious issue that mass media and bourgeois politicians and … |
