Culture

by Critical Edges 2022-01-22 0

The roots of the climate crisis are colonialism, inequality and racism – not generational failure

The climate crisis is not the result of one generation’s failure, but of a whole system that has failed. To fix it, we need to work together across generations and demand unprecedented systemic change, write climate activists Selma de Montgomery and Esther Michelsen Kjeldahl in this article.

by Critical Edges 2021-10-14 1

Critique & Inspiration Culture Front Page Identity and Resistance Neoliberalism Politics Society Student Engagement Voices

The event of ‘May 68’ revolutionized thought and strengthened the possibilities of resistance

The philosopher Étienne Balibar views the uprising in France in 1968 as the point where we went “from a monolithic conception of power centered around the state, to a conception of the multiple forms of domination.” According to the already influential Marxist philosopher, the coordinates of liberating thought were thus changed permanently

by Critical Edges 2021-03-21 0

Culture Front Page Politics Traditions

The Psychology of Fascism and The Incompleteness of Modern Myth

Reflections on Freud, Fromm, Jung and the present dangers of an underlying Fascism.

by Critical Edges 2021-01-20 0

Arts & Media Culture

A Tribute to Soumitra Chatterjee – the Actor of Awareness

Soumitra’s act of awareness in movie Sanjhbatir Rupkathara.

by Critical Edges 2020-09-12 1

Arts & Media Culture Identity and Resistance

The Lost Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono

In 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono were interviewed by the socialist newspaper The Red Mole, where they talked about their opposition to the establishment, and the necessity of social and cultural revolution.

by Critical Edges 2020-08-25 1

Arts & Media Culture Identity and Resistance

Doing Diversity Differently

How creative practices can be used to understand experiences of systemic racism in the NGO sector

by Critical Edges 2020-07-24 0

Arts & Media Culture Front Page

Forgotten Baltic Tragedy – The Missed Chance of “Ashes in the Snow”

Hinnerk Frech talks about “Ashes in the Snow”, a movie about the history of Eastern Europe.