Contagious Philosophy: A Review of Viral Critique

Contagious Philosophy: A Review of Viral Critique

Viral Critique is the title of the short and intense book by Andityas Soares de Moura Costa Matos & Francis García Collado, published in English in February 2022 by Counterpress. This is one of those books whose strength is inverse to its size. It stabs and wounds...
A Short History of Just War

A Short History of Just War

Roman Priest (Louvre Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) Reading British newspapers’ commentary on the Ukraine war gives a sense of deja vue. We have a return of the ‘West’, of the ‘Free World’, of the exreme demonisation of the opponent. Commentators...
Animal Farm Revisited: A Feminist Allegory

Animal Farm Revisited: A Feminist Allegory

Life on Nettle Farm was not easy. Patrick Arkey was a less than sensitive human farm owner. Still, the animals had tended to stick together, to find common cause in the face of their daily grind. Of course, there were gripes. The pigs sometimes felt their feed was...
Statement on the war in Ukraine

Statement on the war in Ukraine

By NOMOS: CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ON LAW, CULTURE AND POWER On February 24, 2022, Russia has begun waging war on Ukraine. Fighting is taking place all over Ukraine, civilians are being killed or forced to flee their homes. In just seven days about 800.000...
The work of art as power and destruction

The work of art as power and destruction

Excerpt1Translated by the author from Spanish. from the novel ” Gabriel’s Horn” (Sanín-Restrepo, Ricardo. 2020, Uniediciones, Colombia) Well then, I also want to address the subject of the immortality of art as a religious, mercantilist and mediocre idea....