On Strike Against Reality: Conspiracy Thinking as the Popularisation of Critical...
Conspiracy theories and post-truth politics have figured prominently in the popular consciousness throughout 2020; growing steadily alongside public health responses to the Covid-19 pandemic....
The Revival of French Left-wing Populism: Interview with Political Strategist Manuel...
Manuel Bompard was the communications manager for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the French left-wing populist candidate who received 20% of the vote in the April 2017...
Battling for the Meaning of “New Normal”: A Glimpse on How...
Indonesia, along with many other countries, has been facing the Covid-19 pandemic since March 2020. While the potential of outbreak had been detected since...
Expectedly unprecedented: Media discourses on COVID-19 and gender violence in Mexico
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented changes to our lifestyles. Or is it, maybe, that the pandemic has simply underscored our already lived normality,...
Demonising populism won’t work – Europe needs a progressive populist alternative...
How should Europe react to the rise of populist parties? Chantal Mouffe argues that the consensus established between centre-right and centre-left parties on the...
People’s Infrastructures: the case of recuperated factory of VIOME
In this week’s article Kostis Roussos, Vaggelis Vragoteris and Haris Malamidis write about a new paradigm of working in common: the case of VIOME, a factory in...
Messiah Musk
‘Elon Musk is my God’, ‘My favourite human being’, ‘This guy is the future!’, ‘Find a way to make him immortal!’. Exclamations like these...
Left Populism from the Hungarian Perspective
A great challenge for the left is how to comply with both Marxist (especially Gramscian) and post-structuralist (Laclau-Mouffian) ideas about politics. How can this...
Is Macronism Thatcherism?
Last year, during the campaign for the French presidential election, Emmanuel Macron claimed a centrist position, distancing himself from both "Thatcher and...
Doom Watch Cancelled: a comment on the Swedish 2018 Election and...
In this weekends long-read Per Rolandsson offers an analysis of the recent Swedish Elections. To such an end, Rolandsson's analysis grapples with the figure of the...