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. Review of Wespennest 189 (2025) www.eurozine.com/bankrupt/

The glorification of storytelling to define who we are is what Byung-Chul Han calls ‘story-selling’. Could alternatives be found in open, porous and incomplete narratives, even when confronting death? By Miriam Rasch via De Nederlandse Boekengids www.eurozine.com/against-stor...

Review of @indexoncensorship.org 3/2025 'Truth, trust & tricksters' 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 www.eurozine.com/truth-trust-...

The 33rd European Meeting of Cultural Journals will take place this weekend in the Slovenian–Italian cities of Nova Gorica/Gorizia, a ‘borderless’ European Capital of Culture in 2025. The conference is co-organized with Razpotja magazine. www.eurozine.com/translating-...

Martha Otwinowski highlights the tightrope German cultural institutions are treading in relation to Israel-Palestine since 7 October 2024. Exhibitions have been cancelled and professorships withdrawn as organisations fear being accused of antisemitism. Via @indexoncensorship.org

Parables of violence; memories of dictatorship; perversions of memory: Ord&Bild 2-3/2025 samples contemporary Latin American literature and photography www.eurozine.com/spending-tim...

Eurozine is deeply saddened by the death of Judith Vidal-Hall, editor of @indexoncensorship.org from 1993–2006 and a longstanding member of Eurozine’s advisory board. We recall the deep and lasting mark she made on the network. www.eurozine.com/judith-vidal...

Eurozine is very saddened to hear of the death of Judith Vidal-Hall (1938–2025), a former editor of @indexoncensorship.org, former Eurozine editorial board member, and member of Eurozine’s advisory board since 2005. She will be deeply missed by the network and wider community.

The guarded approach of this year’s Berlin Biennale towards expressions of pro-Palestinian solidarity left artists and art public alike with the sense that what is permissible in Germany’s cultural sector isn’t enough. By Martha Otwinowski via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/the-missing-...

While Russian art museums and galleries, navigating Putin’s censorship, either conform or risk closure, pro-war propaganda is also eradicating Ukrainian culture in the occupied territories, writes Yegor Mostovshikov via @iwm.at eurozine.com/symbiotic-cu...

'Let our political imaginations soar' Gaza and the age of impunity; Islamism and leftwing anti-Zionism; dead-ends of Staatsräson; illiberal rap. Review of Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 10/2025 @blaetter.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/let-our-poli...

'In the internet age, fake news will circulate but so will real news. Israel nurtures the mistaken belief of all authoritarian regimes that it can manipulate the truth forever.' Seyla Benhabib via Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik @blaetter.bsky.social

André Gorz’s anti-productivist socialism; Bernard Charbonneau’s ecological personalism; environmentalism’s anarchist roots; ero-politics. Esprit Oct. 2025 via @cairninfo.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/consciences-...

Under the Netanyahu government, Israel has aligned itself with an autocratic international whose goal is to transform sovereignty into state impunity. Seyla Benhabib on Gaza, via @blaetter.bsky.social

'If governing through destruction is infinite work, then resistance, by the very same logic, is infinite as well.' Chowra Makaremi @chowmak.bsky.social

'Nothing written before could mirror the profound pain that Gaza was enduring. I craved literature that could articulate what I could not even begin to process.’ @shaimaabulebda.bsky.social

Israel's war on Gaza inaugurates a global era in which consensus itself has lost legitimacy, writes Seyla Benhabib via Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik @blaetter.bsky.social @voelkerrechtsblog.org www.eurozine.com/gaza-and-the...

‘Since leaving Khan Younis, I have not felt whole. The knowledge that complete healing will never come has become something I carry with me always, like a part of my body, like an extra limb.’ Gazan writer @shaimaabulebda.bsky.social on her multiple displacement. www.eurozine.com/displacement...

Does humanity collapse under the weight of repeatedly inflicted cruelty, witnessed as routine? Or does resistance rest in the gestation of fragmented, suspended lives, the martyred dead and movements like ‘Woman, Life Freedom’? Chowra Makaremi @chowmak.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/becoming-see...

Eva Illouz writes: 'For Jews to find shelter in the extreme right is like Othello taking refuge with Iago. The beast will re-awaken.’

Jewish people are not only divided over Israel, they also feel alienated from societies in which antisemitism is regularly disguised as anti-Zionism, writes Eva Illouz on the aftermath of October 7th. www.eurozine.com/after-octobe...

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 @larevuenouvelle.bsky.social @cairninfo.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/artscience/

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. @revueprojet.bsky.social 4/2025 Published with @cairninfo.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/deforestatio...

A century after publication, ‘Mein Kampf’ is instructive not just about the mass appeal of delusional xenophobia, but also about the circumstances under which morality can become a form of terror. By Arnon Grunberg @arnonyy.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/the-elastici...

“The French are concerned about their future, and rightly so.” Gilles Bataillon via @Letras_Libres — now available in the Spanish original on Eurozine.

House keys recur in stories of displaced #CrimeanTatars and #Palestinians from 1940s, and Ukrainians since 2014. Maria Sonevytsky’s ethnographic research, via art and justice, shows how they salvage exiled peoples’ histories from oblivion. via London Ukrainian Review www.eurozine.com/everyday-amu...

'Like so much of what we think of as the path to liberation, the idea that the Arab world will somehow come together to free us is a holdover from a different time – one that had passed before most of us alive today had taken our first steps.' Via Vikerkaar 9/2025.

Cultural managers from Austria, Hungary and Serbia discuss: why fund culture at all? The final episode of #StandardTime ‘How money abandoned culture’ is now published. www.eurozine.com/funding-cuts...

Abandoning the myths of statehood through negotiated settlement, younger Palestinians are defining the goals of liberation and return anew, writes Hazem Jamjoum via Vikerkaar 9/2025 (upcoming in Estonian). www.eurozine.com/left-alone-t...

After being cancelled in #Wales, author Simon Brooks, via O'r Pedwar Gwynt, reveals how the overt politicization of #literature is forcing some writers to abandon their mother tongue, returning to English – the colonizer’s language – in order to be visible. www.eurozine.com/the-double-e...

Sven Lütticken and Ana Teixeira Pinto on political speech and the paradoxes of critique after Trump and Gaza; why the far right fills the gap left by restorationist liberalism; and how fascization depends on white middle-class solidarity www.eurozine.com/surviving-fa...

Founded to eradicate the legacies of colonialism, the African Union was supposed to have been a means to assert sovereignty. But it has proven ineffective in countering a combination of western and domestic power, writes Adéwálé Májà-Pearce www.eurozine.com/did-coloniza...

‘Civil society has not yet lost the anthropological battle for the hearts and minds of Russians, particularly when it comes to the young. The state will not stop at what it has achieved so far, but nor will society abandon its fight to protect human dignity.’ @letraslibres.com

‘If recognition is to be more than theatre, it must come as recognition-plus: a UN Security Council resolution mandating time-bound settlement evacuation and land transfers, and robust support for Palestinian institutional renewal under a unified, legitimate leadership.’ @greeneujournal.bsky.social

Israel has authorized a full military takeover of Gaza exactly 20 years after declaring it had ‘left’ the Strip. Disengagement failed because it was never designed to succeed – least of all on Palestinian terms. By @ytouval.bsky.social via @greeneujournal.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/setting-the-...

Education has become a battleground in the Kremlin’s campaign to militarize the Russian public consciousness. Youth organizations, book bans, changes to school curricula – all amount to a ‘special anthropological operation’, writes Andrei Kolesnikov @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/intellectual...

No reason to panic: But responses to #Russian drones entering #Polish airspace were costly – both NATO’s air defence systems and civilian reactions to disinformation – says war correspondent calling for greater #military efficiency and improved #CivilDefence. www.eurozine.com/no-reason-to...

Russian drones have no respect for Tusk's concrete hedgehogs, writes @krytykapolityczna.bsky.social, on a lack of civil protection measures in #Poland krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/rosyjsk...

#NewFrenchPM appointed as #FranceProtests: fundamental problem lies in the development of the parties and party elites, writes Gilles Bataillon via Letras Libres www.eurozine.com/a-political-...

‘Everyone thinks it won’t happen to their country. But we thought the same,’ said Denys Kobzin, co-author of Public Interest Journalism Lab study on #militarization and what the rest of Europe could learn from #Ukraine. www.eurozine.com/dont-want-to... #Poland #NATO

“On the foundation of the Soviet summer camps as educational institutions, Russia essentially created a robust incarceration system.” - Iuliia Skubytska for @eurozine.bsky.social

Thanks to @eurozine.bsky.social for reviewing our latest magazine issue which explores how #Trump’s administration is reshaping free expression in the #US and beyond. Read the review⬇️ eurozine.com/liberty-on-the-line/

I wrote for Eurozine on the lingering imperial geographies that define our understandings of Ukraine and eastern Europe.

Censored: female genitalia was erased from NASA’s 1970s image travelling outer space. Will compromised depictions of life on Earth avoid sexist, racist and anthropocentric simplifications by 2036, asks @jessthomson.bsky.social via @newhumanist.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/sexism-in-sp... #feminism

Imperial Russia saw the nation as the sea into which all the other Slavic cultures flowed. The idea persists today in way the region is studied in the West. Ukraine scholar @uilleamblacker.bsky.social pleas for institutional reform: www.eurozine.com/russia-is-no...

Brazilian verse drama ‘Morte e Vida Severina’ accompanies migrants to Portugal: “when I crossed the Atlantic, I symbolically found myself facing a process of death & life. I believe that every immigrant experiences a rebirth,” writes Dan Alves, Gerador. www.eurozine.com/neither-here...

How book bans are targeting independent thought in the US; 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 liberals can learn from Soviet dissidents @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/liberty-on-t...

France risks becoming ungovernable. Many blame the situation on Macron’s autocratic style. But the problem lies deeper, in the development of the parties and party elites. By Gilles Bataillon via @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/a-political-...

Ex-Soviet youth pioneer camps – once heavily supervised yet remembered surprisingly positively – have become sites of trauma, where #Ukrainian children are deported en masse, incarcerated and re-educated, writes Iuliia Skubytska via London Ukrainian Review & @iwm.at www.eurozine.com/instrumental...

#ADHD diagnosis: relief rather than label, especially for #neurodivergent women, whose masking can lead to poor mental health, substance abuse & hyper-sexuality, writes Sonia Quinche via Vox Feminae. eurozine.com/i-just-want-...