In Greek mythology, Chaos is that primordial state which precedes the appearance of the Gods. A gaping void, a primordial non-time prior to the blossoming of light, which is necessary for the appearance of life. To evoke the origin of the gods, one must refer to Chaos (as Hesiod’s Theogony does, 8th century BC). Chaos
The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest invites you to a book launch and panel discussion on Unsettling Data: Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form (TITiPI, 2026) with Cristina Cochior (Varia and FHNW, Basel), Angela Daly (University of Newscastle, AU/University of Dundee), Ozan Kamiloglu (London South Bank University), Usha Raman (University of Hyderabad), Nayantara
Over at the LPE blog, a series of contributions have advanced why legislative supremacy ought to be part of a socialist left strategy. Partly, this is a response to the growing juridification of social and political life that has buttressed the power of the courts and, particularly now, a growing deference of the courts under
There are many extraordinary things about the UK Supreme Court’s (UKSC) decision in Dillon. It unpicks at least half of Article 2 of the Windsor Framework – specifically undoing the elements that protect human rights in Northern Ireland post Brexit. Its use of interpretive tools to undertake what I’m sure it regards, to paraphrase Self-Esteem
Few places condense the contradictions of our planetary condition as sharply as the Amazon.The Amazon is at once central to planetary survival, and constantly exposed to processes that threaten it (here and here). It regulates climate, sustains biodiversity, and holds together forms of life that exceed any single ecological or political description. At
COUNTERPRESS is pleased to announce the publication of We’re Nobody’s Children: David Bowie and Existentialism by Alex Sharpe.This book brings existentialist philosophy (atheistic and Christian) to life through the artistic life of David Bowie. Working with Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Simone Weil, it both explains different existentialist themes
A new Routledge book series, publishing novel explorations of normativity for contemporary theorisations of life, in a rapidly evolving global technosocial ecology.This book series invites original scholarship exploring the emerging realm of ‘econormativity’. A fundamentally interdisciplinary project, the series welcomes contributions from law and legal theory, political and social theory, science and technology studies, environmental studies,
A single F-35 fighter jet burns through roughly 5,600 litres of fuel for every hour it is in the air. A US aircraft carrier strike group on deployment consumes more oil in a week than some small nations
On September 7, 2018, in his first major address since leaving office, former President Barack Obama excoriated the administration of Donald J. Trump. By then, the latter president had been in office for over a year and a half. Obama, cajoling students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to vote, offered a withering takedown
It’s been a while since we abandoned our Facebook and Twitter/X accounts, or rather their algorithms abandoned us. Never to be deterred, we are now trying again with LinkedIn, which today seems to be used in ways more than just to network with potential employers. If you use linkedIn we’d love it if you could