Walter Benjamin invites us to think language in a radically different way: not as a neutral medium of communication, but as something living, something creative. For him, language is not exclusively human: everything that exists speaks. It may do so through gesture,...
In December 1795, William Pitt’s government introduced the Treasonable Practices Bill and the Seditious Meetings Bill—the “Gagging Acts” as their opponents called them. They were designed to suppress the radical democratic societies that had flourished in the wake of...
Left: Maduro Captured (US Military, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) | Right: Trump with members of his cabinet at Mar-a-Lago during “Operation Absolute Resolve” (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) 1....
In a recent piece published at Opinio Juris,[i] Nikolas M. Rajkovic calls on international lawyers to recalibrate their “ways of seeing” to account for the multi-scalar, relational, and interconnected nature of contemporary authority and power. His article...
Following a tumultuous start to her role as first lady of the United States of America, wherein she was accused of destroying ‘family values’ and promoting ‘militant feminism’,[1] Hillary Clinton delivered a much-lauded speech condemning Chinese abuses of...
We know the genocide in Gaza is a collective work, a sort of F35 genocide whose parts come from an imperial collective, a collective of old colonial states now led by the USA. So the denial of genocide, at least of its naming, is also shared by these states across the...
