Reviews Gomorrah's criminal divas Feminism’s critique of popular culture for the way they degrade, objectify, distort and stereotype women are legion. In relation to their engagement with crime and violence for example women ⋙
Culture A single destiny binds the world: Immunity, Community, and Finitude The virus has become the widespread metaphor for all of our nightmares – Roberto Esposito, Terms of the Political, 2008 While not unexpected, the coronavirus pandemic has taken the whole world ⋙
Culture Together alone: Marx in times of coronavirus “Non ci possiamo baciare! Senza baci!” We find ourselves confined inside our homes due to the coronavirus. As individuals, we shoulder the responsibility. We feel lonely and isolated. And nevertheless, ⋙
Culture Epidemiology of coronavirus as a psychosocial disease The coronavirus seems unstoppable. Science (with capital S) has dealt with the coronavirus mainly from a clinical and infectious point of view. In line with the standards of biomedical knowledge, ⋙
Culture Barabbas' version: Analysis of a major terror attack in Rome, A.D. 64 Our correspondent reports from the great city of the Caesars. A few months ago, on 19th July of the tenth year of divus Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, DCCCXVII a. ⋙
cinema The Repugnant Other: Reading Halliday in Hollywood Comparing vintage Hollywood myth-making with contemporary narratives on Islam. Let’s start with a little quiz for the analysts of jihad and radicalisation among our select readership. Where is this ⋙
Culture ENDURAsphere: the total terrorism solution On the 12 January, 2016, in a press conference at the European Parliament, an activist group called The Yes Men, masqueraded as the Global Security Response, presented ENDURAsphere, an anti-terrorism ⋙
Culture Under the Sycamores Luca Rastello, journalist and writer. 9 July 1961 - 6 July 2015. The curtain opened and he passed away. Luca Rastello’s corageous work must be known across all those ⋙
criminal justice Human capital? The making, unmaking, and remaking of subjectivities In this essay I reflect on the notion of ‘human capital’, steered by the latest Paolo Virzi’s movie with the same tittle, and its implications on our subjectivity, relying ⋙
biopolitics Crossing through the darkness once again “Unless the world learns the lessons these pictures teach, night will fall... but by God’s grace, we who live will learn” Shown recently at the Documentary Film Festival DOCVILLE ⋙
Culture Richard the Third is back in town The Shakesperian villain reincarnates in Congressmen Underwood in the tv series "House of Cards". Series are more and more the best we can expect in the solitude of ⋙
American sniper American Sniper Fights the new Indians The resurrection of classical Western movies stereotypes as a grotesque Iraqi tale. Why do enemies look all the same? Why do they wear the same clothes, use the same weapons, ⋙
Culture Back to Detective Stories? A big international success, the HBO series “True Detective” seems to do away with the detective story genre. You know exactly what it is going to happen but when it ⋙
biopolitics Timbuktu: Don't Kill It, Just Wear It Out! The desert, the ethnic mosaic, biopolitics and neo-patrimonialism on the screen. Presented at the Cannes Film Festival, the film Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako offers fertile ground for a sharper understanding ⋙
arts Ravaged: Art and Culture in Times of Conflict Ravaged—Art and Culture in Times of Conflict at M Museum in Leuven, Belgium (until September 1st 2014), marks the centenary of the First World War. The exhibition has truly ⋙
arts Context and not only Content Explorations on justice through New Media Documentaries. The exhibition Convictions brought together at STUK cultural centre in Leuven, Belgium (26.09 – 17.11 2013), four projects by the Californian digital ⋙
