Pasolini’s controversial final film Salò (1975), based on Marquis de Sade’s The 120 Days of Sodom (1785), poses significant questions regarding the intersection between sadistic torture and sovereignty. The film is divided into four segments, heavily inspired by...
There has never yet been human life, but always just economic life. (Bloch, 2006: 18) New York Police officers attack protesters with batons, pepper spray and horses in an attempt to prevent them from gathering in Times Square. Police officers’ rage is understandable,...
A man is no longer a man confined, but a man in debt. (Deleuze, 1995: 181) Capitalism has complete control over life: it has “biopolitical” control. Hence Deleuze’s above statement in his text on the societies of control, where the regime of indebtedness is as much...
… what are you laughing at? Change the name and you are the subject of the story" (Horace, Satires and Epistles. London: Penguin 2005: 5) In November 2010, British students staged a series of demonstrations in several cities of the UK and Northern Ireland. Organised...