Gianfranco Sanguinetti, 1948–2025
The Prague Mystifier of the Italian Ruling Classes
Gianfranco Sanguinetti, writer, thinker, adventurer, collaborator of Guy Debord and the Situationist International, who in the 1970s drew attention to the crisis of capitalism and state repression not only in Italy, died on October 3 this year at the age of 77. However, few people knew him in Prague, where he spent his last decades.
Freedom resides in the fulfilled time
Interview with Eva von Redecker
While we usually associate freedom with unlimited mobility in space, German philosopher Eva von Redecker turns the idea on its head. In her newest book Bleibefreiheit, and the Czech edition of the Revolution for Life, she offers alternative views on the idea of freedom, critique of social structures, or common fear of finitude.
Humans are nature in embodied form
With Ariel Salleh about life on Earth, care and degrowth
We asked one of the most prominent figures of ecofeminism how her current activism relates to the current fight against climate change. Does it differ in any way from the original form of this movement that arose fifty years ago?
We need a smart village
With Anna Hazare on corruption, waste and Indian village
We asked Anna Hazare, a social activist and a prominent rural development leader, about his assessment of Narendra Modi's government, what the 21st century self-government should look like, how natural resources should be treated, and whether he considers himself a Gandhian.
What Makes the Kabir Kala Manch the Most Persecuted Band in India?
Voice of the country’s victimized Dalit caste and their fight for justice
Indian society is still based on a discriminatory caste system even though it is forbidden by the law. The voices of the Dalit caste are heard in the songs of Kabir Kala Manch band. The resistance of the lower classes to oppression continues through music.
India and an Emerging Ideological State
The end of democracy in the second most populous country in the world?
Children of Manu and Marx, Rama and MTV
The Changing Patterns of Political Documentary Practices in India
Activism under the auspices of dhamma
Buddhism as a Dalit path away from oppression?
Now is the time to act
Indian farmers are fighting both the pandemic and government reforms
We are dark
Interview with Agata Pyzik about uncanny Slavdom, Polish nationalism and paganism
The hardware is heavy, noisy and gets hot
Interview with Lynne Hall about sexual and social robotics
What Will Endure?
Twenty-first-century Literary Canon
Videogames may be transformative of desires, empathies and emotions
With Alfie Bown about technologization of instincts and the question of guilt
Against people and nature
Pěčín Dam as a Gift for the Cement Lobby
Becoming a log of wood
With František Štorm about book design and typography
Tourist go home!
Summer revolts against vacationers
