Culture and Ideas
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West Papua’s Shifting Signifiers: Across History of Colonialism and Nationalism in Indonesia
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A silent war of narratives and symbols rages within the shadowed forests and contested borders of West Papua.
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Cultural Hegemony and Social Media: Why We Need to Keep up with the Kardashians
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As more of our interactions shift online, Gramsci’s work provides a useful lens to understand how social media is employed by modern-day elites to manipulate the masses.
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Time in the Anthropocene
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The tempo of the Anthropocene is multiple, plural, and full of opportunities, both dangerous and salvific.
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Hegel and History
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The point of studying Hegel, and by extension the purpose of contextualising historical thinkers, should concern itself less with relating his circumstances to our own and more with identifying the discrepancies and continuities between different historical eras. The past was past, but it still weighs, in the words of Marx, ‘like a nightmare on the…
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Timelessness in Pre-Modern Politics
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A de-temporalized politics is, then, not only imaginable—it was, to some extent, once a reality. For the scholastic, a week was most certainly not a long time in politics—nor indeed was a year or a century. Only in the modern time regime, governed by the politics of the particular, can such an utterance be considered…
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Does Time Legitimate Territorial Claims? Reflections on the Plights of the Palestinian and Indigenous American Peoples
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The passage of time may serve to bury the crime, but it does not permit an international ‘statute of limitations’ in the case of either the Palestinians or Indigenous Americans.
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Language in the Realm of Techno-Utopianism
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In The Future of Language: How Technology, Politics and Utopianism are Transforming the Way we Communicate, linguist Phillip Seargeant attempts to unravel the intricacies of what lies ahead in human communication.
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A Reflection on the Confucian Utopian Vision of Society
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According to Confucius, humans had already achieved a utopia in the ancient Chinese world, and he called for a revival of the angelic human nature to go back to the ‘Golden Age’ of humankind.
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“What’s missing?”
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Conflating both strands in the term “utopia”, No Other Planet: Utopian Visions of a Climate-Changed World argues that this yearning for an alternative world operates as a valuable foil to console, critique or even change the status quo.
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The Utopia of Democratic Socialism: An Alternative to Capitalism
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Without a positive vision of utopia, capitalism seems insurmountable, and the Left will remain unable to present a coherent counterpoint to the current market system. In fact, it might be said that the lived reality of oppression is what necessitates utopian theory: to offer respite from the otherwise seemingly inescapable present.