For nearly one thousand years, man believed that space was a vacuum where nothing could survive the cold, airless environment. Only in the year 3287 AEM (after our Lord Elon Musk’s death) did the scientists of the oldest space colony, Neptune, find evidence that this entire time, space was, in fact, a thriving and writhing environment.
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Since last October, the growing instrumentalization of anti-Semitism by Zionist groups around the world, including those who identify with feminisms and the anti-fascist movement, is notorious. A few months ago, in a talk entitled Is Palestine a feminist issue? On the intertwining of (queer) feminism and anti-Semitism, Cordula Trunk argued that queer and decolonial feminist groups that have stood in solidarity with Palestinian people are informed by a "vulgar" understanding of postcolonialism that she labels as racist and anti-Semitic. Besides being a blind stance to colonial violence, the fabrication of such a narrative is a form of coloniality of knowledge insofar as the value of knowledge and understandings produced on the margins, in the East and in the Third World, is peripheral and devoid of any validity and truthfulness.
Read MoreOn a Wednesday in June, it was hot, but not too hot. On that day, I made a performance called Ludd Lives! A Popular Trial on Technology. This is a comic about that performance.
Read MoreCatching up with Anna Menecia Antenete Hambira—Vienna-based freelance fashion designer, artist and creative director and author of the interdisciplinary fashion project amaaena that combines sustainability, contemporary fashion and socio-political responsibility.
Read MoreMemory is a flood, writes Ocean Vuong.[1] It is something we cannot easily control as it is already controlled by different triggers. Except in cases when our memory blocks some, usually traumatic, experiences, everything else can surge at certain moments. Both good memories, which can provide inner comfort and warmth, and bad memories, from which we'd like to hide, seem to overwhelm us. There are also second-hand memories. What I mean is that these memories are not about our own experiences and life events but of other people. The people who share with us what they remember, their stories become intertwined with our own memories. Sometimes, they don't even have to tell us anything.
Read MoreMore and more departing from the conservative understanding of mental health (issues), we entered this year the terrain of neurodiversity…
Read MoreGet a taste of the conversations with our guests, Magdalena Strauch, Hristina Hristova & Morgan Glew and Niklas Satanik…
Read MoreIn my Maturazeitung, it stated that I was adaptable and would rarely say if something didn't suit me. Fifteen years later, it still annoys me…
Read MoreMy journey to becoming an anti-racism-focused artist, activist and (so-called educator) has been an interesting one…
Read MoreThe stylistic spectrum of XING ranges between melancholic melodies, hip-hop elements, influences from R&B and a large amount of soul…
Read MoreBlack Box—a school story by Pedro del Real Lavergne.
Read MoreRaven and Phan is an Austro-Turkish duo wreaking havoc in post-club and art-pop music…
Read MoreAt the time I decide to write this text I am reading “Tools for Conviviality”[1] and “Deschooling Society”[2] by Ivan Illich (Vienna, 1926 – Bremen, 2002)…
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