Like a doctor using a stethoscope to listen into the patient’s body, let’s pay attention to our cultural mainstream, to the comtemporary artistic zeitgeist, to listen to the monsters within it. By doing so, by which I mean by experiencing the greatest possible variety of artworks that contain monstrosities...
PATHS TO PEACE by Eduardo Carli de Moraes / Toronto and Ottawa, September 2014 While the People’s Social Forum was taking place in Ottawa, between August 21 and 24, the bloodbath in Gaza was still raging. Even mass demonstrations and rallies, held in several cities all around the world...
This is one of those historical moments where tragedy unfolds in massive scale and bloodshed spills into our feeds, filling up our waking hours and intruding in our nightmares. When my friends and flatmates Saliem and Wael told me about a massive demonstration in Amsterdam in solidarity with Gaza’s...
“As the United States begins bombing the Iraqi city of Tikrit and again delays a withdrawal from Afghanistan, a new report has found that the Iraq War has killed about one million people. The Nobel Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and other groups examined the...