March, 2012
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Saturday, March 31, 2012 22:22 - 0 Comments
Special Report | Justice for Trayvon Martin Solidarity Demo
Ceasefire's Terence Elliott-Cooper reports from today's demonstration at the US embassy in London, demanding justice for Trayvon Martin.
In Theory, New in Ceasefire - Friday, March 30, 2012 12:00 - 1 Comment
An A to Z of Theory | Jean Baudrillard: The Rise of Capitalism & the Exclusion of Death
In the second of his series of essays on Baudrillard, Andrew Robinson examines how the French thinker saw 'symbolic exchange' giving way to capitalist alienation, and discusses Baudrillard's intriguing proposition that alienation stems from the social exclusion of death.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Monday, March 26, 2012 15:01 - 0 Comments
Ideas | Screening Žižek: Laconic Axe vs Lobottonised Thought
In the second of his essays on "Screening Thought" Paul Taylor explores the wider constraints imposed on serious thinking by the media. Despite the problems caused by Zizek's popularity, his celebrity-intellectual persona still retains an important aspect of “the return of the repressed” - abstract thought's stubborn survival in a heavily mediated age.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, March 25, 2012 11:53 - 0 Comments
Books | Review: ‘Economic Policy and Human Rights: Holding Governments to Account’
Are particular economic policies responsible for human rights abuses? Do governments have legal obligations to pursue economic policies that protect human rights? Should economic success be measured via human rights rather than mere growth? Leoni Linek reviews an important new volume on the subject.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Saturday, March 24, 2012 6:15 - 2 Comments
Special Report | Portuguese strike and march against austerity plan
Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins reports exclusively from Lisbon on yesterday's general strike and popular marches against austerity measures, and the heavy crackdown by riot police that left protesters and journalists injured.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, March 22, 2012 23:50 - 1 Comment
Special Report | Toulouse and the French election
Ceasefire's Sam Nallen Copley reports from Paris on the French presidential election race and the impact this week's unfolding tragedy in Toulouse might have on the result.
Counterpoetics, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, March 21, 2012 8:45 - 1 Comment
Counterpoetics | INTO MORDOR
March's offering from Ceasefire's poet-in-residence Dominic Fox.
Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 22:12 - 0 Comments
Music | Review: Dilated Peoples (Islington Academy)
Formed two decades ago, LA HipHop collective Dilated Peoples are still going strong. Adam Elliott-Cooper went to see them perform at the Islington Academy.
Books, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, March 18, 2012 20:18 - 1 Comment
Books | Review: “Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx”
In 'Hermeneutic Communism', Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala offer a radical recasting of Marx’s theories that openly challenges calls, such as those by Negri and Hardt, for a return of the revolutionary left. Lev Marder argues this could be a Communist Manifesto for the 21st Century.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Friday, March 16, 2012 22:11 - 0 Comments
Special Report | Bloody Sunday in Afghanistan
Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins reports on the events and aftermath of Sunday's deadly attack by a US soldier that resulted in the death of sixteen Afghan civilians.
