Eurozine Review

How AI is changing the nature of censorship; artificial intelligence versus historical truth; revisiting the UK government’s response to 7/7; missing Palestinians from this year’s Berlin Biennale.

Bankruptcy in nineteenth-century parables of capitalism; billionaires, bankruptcy and the American obsession with money; and why the refusal to accept the end makes life worse.

Parables of violence; memories of dictatorship; perversions of memory: Ord&Bild samples contemporary Latin American literature and photography.

André Gorz’s anti-productivist socialism; Bernard Charbonneau’s ecological personalism; environmentalism’s anarchist roots; ero-politics.

Gaza and the age of impunity; Islamism and leftwing anti-Zionism; dead-ends of Staatsräson; illiberal rap.

How bringing art into the hospital can rehumanize the patient-carer relationship; what the applied arts can bring to archaeology, and vice versa; and how the reunion of art and science can re-politicize the imagination.

Why forest restoration projects are counterproductive; how citizens are mobilizing to protect Europe’s woodland from the right; and why diversity is the solution to sustainable timber.

Free speech in the US: how book bans are targeting independent thought; why Trump’s assault on education imitates Erdoğan’s; what the closure of Radio Free Asia means for the region’s information space; and how American liberals can learn from Soviet dissidents.

Karl Jaspers, Günther Anders and the nuclear dichotomy; how Israel’s allies have abandoned the Iranian opposition; and EU asylum policy ten years on from ‘Wir schaffen das’.

Vikerkaar on why grey rhinos are riskier than black swans when it comes to epochal crises; how the Estonian government averted a crisis of state by crushing fascism in 1934; and why Estonia’s AI enthusiasm may provoke a crisis of education.

Thirty years on from the Srebrenica massacre, how The Netherlands has failed to acknowledge the ‘moral truth’ of the victims. Also: perspectives on the fascism debate; and why society needs a conversation about dying.

Borders and boundaries in the Soviet order: How the rhetoric of borderlessness hid imperial practices. Also: filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky and the metaphysics of oil; and Andrei Sinyavsky’s literature of delinquency.

In Wespennest: On the definition of hyper-complex systems; why keeping it simple is not always good political communication; how complexity became the hallmark of the musical avant-garde; and how new genres and platforms are making our interaction with literature more complex than ever.

springerin looks back on 30 years of art and cultural criticism: including Boris Buden on the benevolent westernizer; Yvonne Volkart on altered artistic landscapes; Süreyyya Evren on spaces of conflict; and Hans-Christian Dany on illusions of subjectivity.

Ord&Bild revisits the Fogelstad Citizen School for Women and its role in the Swedish women’s movement. With articles on prominent alumni, including working-class feminist writer Moa Martinson; modernist artist and sculptor Siri Derkert; and pedagogue and civil rights campaigner Karin Stenberg.

In Varlık: how northern cultural hegemony is being challenged by Bollywood, Korean television dramas, K-pop and Nollywood; also, post-emotional human relationships and the aesthetics of uncertainty.