Political Critique Archive

With hype around automation and robotisation at fever pitch, many argue that we will soon see mass labour disappear altogether. Sociologist Antonio Casilli begs to differ. Work is not disappearing, he argues in this interview with Lorenzo Marsili, but is being transformed by the giants of the digital economy. Lorenzo Marsili: You claim that fears […]

Macron and Verhofstadt’s aim in raising the specter of Eastern European populists is to undermine their own populists at home.

*The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for European Alternatives’ forthcoming documentary, Demos: Solidarity in Europe.  While activists, unions and political parties are looking for strategies to build alliances to contest the rise of far right and xenophobia across the globe, the feminist movement has proved in the past decade that there are […]

*The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for European Alternatives’ forthcoming documentary, Demos: Solidarity in Europe.  European Alternatives: Tell us how the Kiev Biennial originated, and about the work of the Visual Culture Research Centre. Why did you start working on these projects? Vasyl Cherepanyn: We started nine years ago inside the University. […]

The conservative post-moderns do not defend Western culture for its merits. Rather, they deride enemies for their part in a conspiracy seeking their destruction.

How to cross the Yugoslavian border in 1990: “Everybody who speaks German, come with us. Sprichst du Deutsch? Come with us.” We join the brigade of angry Germans, marching toward the front.

To say that the situation of people with disabilities in Poland is difficult is an understatement.

Prague: „By only focusing on the highest corridors of power, the gloriously stupid decisions being made at the local level go overlooked.”

Kosovar architect presents the country’s ’90s history at the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture.

If you look puzzled, or answer in your clearest English, “I’m sorry, I don’t understand, kid, I’m from Minnesota,” he will call in the troops: “Marek! Krzysztof! Piotr! Chodzi tu!” Each kid has a deck of postcards, a map of the city or a booklet about the cathedral…each costing one dollar.