The Accomplice of Love The accomplice is someone who is not there. Someone you can see only if you see things. To feel the love of the accomplice is to feel safe to be unsafe. The love of the accomplice is known by what he makes vulnerable, by the bodies she teaches to open in […]
Africa
A revolution against neo-liberalism?
Abu Atris | neo-liberalism Two observations about Egypt’s history as a neo-liberal state are in order. First, Mubarak’s Egypt was considered to be at the forefront of instituting neo-liberal policies in the Middle East (not un-coincidentally, so was Ben Ali’s Tunisia). Secondly, the reality of Egypt’s political economy during the Mubarak era was very different […]
Editorial Edition Zero
The people who disobey. The people who resist in the obscurity of everyday life. The people who, when forgotten too long, remind the world of their existence and break into history without prior notice… There is no oppression without resistance. There is only time stretching more or less slowly before unexpected—or out of sight—the collective […]