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“International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. Yet progress has slowed in many places across the world, so global action is needed to accelerate gender parity. Leaders across the world are pledging to take action as champions of gender parity – not only for International Women’s Day, but for […]
In the film le feu follet (The fire within, 1963), the main character, Alain Leroy, played by Maurice Ronet, regularly contemplates the date July 23 written across his mirror. This date imprints itself as an image. It also recalls the film Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo from 5 to 7, 1962) by Agnès Varda, […]
Wastelands/peripheral fields/gaps in the urban/are places here boundaries show themselves as something in motion-fluid-uncertain. Areas leftto their own devices in all their variety correspond to today’s necessities/the noticing of caesurae/connections and their repercussions/to be seen as a symbol of voluntary renunciation/of nonintervention. Space/created as a consequence of precise carelessness toward/what we generally call nature – […]
The Global Movement is developed on the skin of connectivity and the vibrant differences of our microrevolts. This is called emotional evolution. It is viral and constant. It is horizontal and empowering. It makes rulers resign. Play is the effective way to learn and teach. Movement expresses the thinking and living at present. It actualizes […]
The Neolithic Revolution in the Levant and Mesopotamia marked the first domestication of plants, animals, and humans. With our sedentarization, we opened ourselves up to cultures being diminished ecologically, nutritionally, and spiritually, and to the construction of hierarchical, centralized, socialpolitical regimes and their inherent inhibition of liberties. Occasionally romanticized by anthropologists as “the original affluent […]
Crisis and failure have always been material and political. The struggle for freedom promises renewed potential for social justice and equality but also the possibility for completely counter outcomes. The struggle must continue to intervene in existing conditions and propose alternative futures, leaving stains and residues that distort the known image. These may induce a […]
Francisco Goya, El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid (The Third of May 1808, 1814), oil on canvas, 268 x 347 cm
In 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed a horse being flogged. In tears, the philosopher flung his arms around the animal’s neck and collapsed. In accounts of Nietzsche’s life, this act of interspecies solidarity heralds his descent into madness. A decade later, one year before his death, a photographer captures Nietzsche in the grip of stroke-induced paralysis. […]
The first time a Syrian was represented in cinema was in 1897, in a film by the Lumière brothers that enacted the assassination of General Kléber by a fanatic names Suleiman.