Aftermath

You could say that something is now spilling out of the archives, something darkly unnamable that can not be managed or slowed down, its a kind of eruption of the every day and all those ”other” cultural producers into the daylight…

A conversation between Tina Gerhardt and Robert S. Eshelman about the past six months of international climate change negotiations.

…each habitat sentence comprised of a subject, object, and predicate that together produce a language of ecological interdependency.

The exhibition Rising Currents: Projects For New York’s Waterfront at the Museum of Modern Art proposes a series of projects for a wetter, muddier, stormier future in which coastlines shift and the distinction is blurred between terra firma and the boundless deep…

Covered with the green colors of the flag, and filled with high hopes for change, Tehran was paralyzed by the impact of the festivities…

What is left but sound—flammable and everlasting? Sound was the first thing. Then more sound, this time organized, which is to say “song” or breath igniting air. I hear metal clang metal and skin drum skin. A swollen hum ripples black water. In my depleted state, I mount the hillock, crying, “Yes, more!”

SOS Peace Pentagon (imagined exterior)
339 Lafayette Street in New York City, known as the Peace Pentagon, has served as a home base for dozens of activist groups and progressive organizations working for peace for over 40 years. Because it is in need of major repairs, the organization Friends of 339 issued a call for proposals, [...]

“Transnational democracy” as a term has been used in different discourses. I think it could build on the experiences of transnational social movements, which show that democracy does not have to be grounded in territorially limited units such as nation-states. In my opinion a transnational democracy has to be developed and shaped through political struggles that involve as many people as possible.