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Will You Be Arrested For Reading This?
Jeffrey Hernandez reads the 2015 Counter-Extremism Bill and Cameron's vow that obeying the law will no longer keep the state out of your life.
/ ZOD Culture
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The Female Gaze, Women Viewing Sexualised Women
Nineteen13 founder Emily Hoyle challenges the assumption that sexualised images of women exist for men, exploring the female gaze in media.
/ Emily Hoyle
Politics Self & Society
Would you shoot the president?
Would you shoot the president to stop a nuclear strike? Elijah Joshua Pryor dissects the dilemma and what such questions reveal about morality.
/ Elijah Joshüa Pryor
Politics Self & Society
The Female Gaze, Women Viewing Sexualised Women
Emily Hoyle asks why women look at sexualised women, from lingerie campaigns to magazine covers aimed at a female, not male, audience.
/ Emily Hoyle
Politics Self & Society
Genocide begins with the Silence of the World
Zekarias Kebraeb is a human being who can fly because he has wings in his soul. To us Zekarias Kebraeb is an immigrant. Just an immigrant.
/ Benjamin Eli Levine
Politics Self & Society
‘no Justice, no Peace’ in a white supremacist capitalist patriarchy
Benjamin Eli Levine traces 'no justice, no peace' from Rodney King to Mike Brown through bell hooks' white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.
/ Benjamin Eli Levine
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The Very Direct Democracy
When UKIP backed referendums and recallable MPs, Dave Martin asked what direct democracy would really deliver for voters and the working class.
/ Dave Martin
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From the Depths of a Melting Pot into the Circles of a Neoliberal Inferno: Part I
Benjamin Eli Levine maps how neoliberal ideology and identity politics atomise us into cells of a panopticon while claiming to set us free.
/ Benjamin Eli Levine
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A Report Regarding the Recent Inscrutable Events in Syria
Jeremy Barras asks whether Western strikes over Assad's sarin attack would extinguish Syria's 'moral obscenity' or simply ignite a deadlier fire.
/ Jeremy Barras
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What does Zimmerman’s acquittal mean for America?
Benjamin Eli Levine asks what George Zimmerman's acquittal for killing Trayvon Martin reveals about race and justice in post-King-dream America.
/ Benjamin Eli Levine
Politics Self & Society
Education and Power I: Machine Minds
Tom Moulton traces capitalism from feudal origins to a dominance so normalised that 9-to-5 work and excess consumption now pass for human nature.
/ Tom Moulton
Politics Self & Society
Duggan’s Just Deserts Or Have We Deserted Justice?
Oliver Brooks dissects the inquest that ruled Mark Duggan's shooting lawful and asks what an unarmed man's death means for British justice.
/ Oliver Brooks
Politics Self & Society
“You may house their bodies but not their souls”
Taimour Fazlani reads Gibran against the tuition-fee system, arguing that debt and dogma are stripping the soul from British university learning.
/ Taimour Fazlani
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Why Don’t Young People Vote?
The only sure thing about this year’s general election is uncertainty. But one thing seems set in stone – the majority of young people are not going to vote.
/ Alice Glynn
Featured Politics
Global Visionaries: Erick Matsanza – Spice Chungu
Orsod Malik speaks with Erick Matsanza and Spice Chungu, African visionaries whose work defies the West's bleak single story of the continent.
/ Orsod Malik
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Has the US Supreme Court Just Induced A Pharmaceutical Game of Russian Roulette?
Karen Bartlett lost her skin and sight to a routine anti-inflammatory drug; Jeremy Barras asks how the US Supreme Court left patients unprotected.
/ Jeremy Barras
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A Small Island Insight
In this region of Melanesia, Islands are small states that get pushed around and often manipulated by powerful corporations.
/ Mui
Politics Self & Society
Materialism that Undermines Capitalism
David Gould argues postmodern relativism disarms critique of capitalism, and that taking objects' value seriously is a materialism that resists.
/ David Gould
Politics Self & Society
Slut Shaming & the Censorship of Music Videos
Emily Hoyle takes on slut-shaming and the calls to censor music videos, asking why Miley Cyrus became the scapegoat for a sexualised culture.
/ Emily Hoyle
Politics
The Dissension Between Western Actions and Western Values
Mark Richards charts the widening gap between Western governments' professed values and their record of military intervention and security policy.
/ Mark Richards
Politics Self & Society
Acknowledging Privilege
Oppression is a system in which one group maintains supremacy over another, simple enough. How exactly does one group maintain supremacy over another?
/ Orsod Malik
Politics
A Response To Tony Blair’s Recent Contemptible Claim
Jeremy Barras answers Tony Blair's claim that religious difference, not ideology, will fuel this century's battles, and finds it contemptible.
/ Jeremy Barras