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By Paraskevi Siamitrou Yesterday, I went to see Yorgos Lanthimos' new movie, Bugonia. Lanthimos seems to be taking upon contemporary issues, and making them absurd, grotesque with a crippling violence. And I understand that this artistic point of view contemplates capitalism, the ruthlessness of it. Citizen and consumer lines are fuzzy. A subjectivity composed of a gruesome Big Other, capital accumulation, signifiers and language attuned to the very big desire: produce, relen

By Alessandra Cuzzolino Modern Western academia, including the humanities and social sciences, is based on the reproduction of colonial systems of knowledge. What counts as knowledge, who is authorised to produce it, and which voices are legitimised within the academic discourse, have historically been shaped by Eurocentric views over ontology – the philosophical study of being – and epistemology – the philosophical study of knowledge. These European perspectives aim to place

By Roos van der Velde . This article was written in collaboration with Jana from Debt for Climate . Illustration by Julie M. Elman Coming from the Netherlands, a culture that is uncomfortable -to say the least- with speaking about money, I had learned the complexities of conversations on money and power. Still, debt had always remained a scary topic for me… anything with finances and economics really. We had touched on reparations and wealth in our discussions, however, comfo

Written by Frances Rosenberg “…and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.’" — Genesis 1:28 Western culture has been built on the foundations of human exceptionalism—a view of nature as separate from and far below the (“right” kind of) human. But where do these foundations come from? And are they universal acro

Written by Paraskevi Siamitrou The frequency of the word “reimagine”  has skyrocketed in recent years, as visualised below. ( Reimagine, V. Meanings, Etymology and More | Oxford English Dictionary , n.d.) Yet it feels somewhat lukewarm as a word, perhaps because it implies repetition. My mind goes to the repetition of pre-existing epistemologies, the same knowledge systems that led us to this first place of imagination: who imagined the solutions in the beginning? And who pro