July 2015

Léopold Lambert
Hannibal Directive and the Economy of Lives: Making Sense of Black Friday in Gaza
July 30, 2015
Part 1: Hannibal Directive On July 2, 2015, architect and intellectual Eyal Weizman gave a lecture at the Médecins Sans Frontières...
Belén Fernández
Thinking While Black
July 29, 2015
On May 13, 1985, one of the blacker days of the U.S. war on its domestic black population, the Philadelphia Police Department undertook the...
Veruska Cantelli
The New Paladins of the Humanities: A Warning
July 28, 2015
“Welcome to the dystopian world of corporate education, in which learning how to think, appropriate public values, and become an engaged...
Intagrist El Ansari
"Azawad": The Great Betrayal?
July 27, 2015
Translated by Barbara Dent The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), representing five Toureg-led rebel groups in Mali, signed the peace...
UN peacekeeper in Mali courtesy gensmantel.net
Devin Kelly
The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us this Far: In Conversation with Quintan Ana Wikswo
July 23, 2015
Quintan Ana Wikswo has carved out a space of artistic living unlike anyone else. Her work bleeds into multiple disciplines, from fiction to...
Luke Hunt
Toil and Trouble off China's Southern Coast
July 22, 2015
Naval brinkmanship in the South China Sea is taking a backseat to diplomacy, trade and the international courts. For the time being at...
Belén Fernández
Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguán Valley
July 13, 2015
In May 2011, the government of Honduras hosted an economic conference in the city of San Pedro Sula to promote foreign and domestic...
Arpita Mandal
On Devadasis, Dance and Desire
July 6, 2015
The Indian novels written in English that Western readers are most familiar with have been referred to as “the sari and mango novels” by...