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Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% …
Das Europaparlament – eine hervorragende Idee. Nur in der Realität leider ein Witz, und noch dazu ein sehr schlechter. Nico …
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest …
The Wretched of the Earth (French: Les Damnés de la Terre) is a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, …
Stunning photos and from what I can tell a lovely overview of brutalist architecture across Wales. The texts are amazing too.
The sequencing wasn’t 100% to my taste, as it keeps jumping back & forth between places.
Classic in educational and critical theory.
On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed …
Originally shown at The Photographers’ Gallery in 1979, the exhibition garnered critical acclaim, solidifying the …
Throughout the 70s, Janine Wiedel visited the industry of the West Midlands, documenting the work and workers across the mines, steelworks, potteries and jewelry and chain makers.
Beyond the amazing photographs of the work in action (all the way down to the face of the coal mines!), there is a large collection of wonderful portraits, showing off the human side of the labor in the larger than life industry.
How to maintain hope in the face of despair
In the struggle for a better …
Burnout gives a great overview on how defeat in political struggles can lead to despair. There are no easy answers here on how to avoid it, but maybe on how to come to terms with the fact that despair is likely to be part of a political struggle.
Across the chapters, Hannah Proctor looks at Melancholia, nostalgia, depression, the titular burnout, exhaustion, bitterness, trauma and mourning — across historical defeats in the fight for a more just and equal society, across a wide range of academic resources.
Definitely not an easy read, but a necessary one I’d say. I really enjoyed her concept of “non-adaptive healing”, on recovering without accepting the status quo that (partially) causes any of those challenges outlined across the chapters.
