Equator
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A magazine of politics, culture and art equator.org
Fascinating to think that a post from a student in Boston started mass protests in India (and yet barely makes headlines in the US) www.equator.org/articles/coc...
Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous • EQUATOR
The student protesters who have swarmed Delhi are showing us a different future for India
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“If we can have arguments like this,” said a friend who fled Haiti in 2024, “it means we’re still alive.” Pooja Bhatia for @equatormag.bsky.social on Haiti’s famed Oloffson Hotel, where I used to file my stories. www.equator.org/articles/hot... @bhatiap.bsky.social
After the Dance • EQUATOR
A dream died when Haiti’s Hotel Oloffson burned to the ground. Can it be recovered?
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This extraordinary essay by @bhatiap.bsky.social for @equatormag.bsky.social on Haiti and the storied Oloffson Hotel is the best thing I've read in ages. Just amazing writing. www.equator.org/articles/hot...
Reminder – this starts in two hours! It’s not too late to sign up! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/navayana-a...
Navayana and Equator Present: The Legacy of Gauri Lankesh
A conversation with Teesta Setalvad, Rollo Romig and Madhu Bhushan, nine years after Gauri Lankesh was shot and killed.
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I was thrilled to write about one of the best places in the world for one of the best magazines in the world. @equatormag.bsky.social cc: Haiti-heads, Graham Greene lovers, New Wave music fans, anyone who's danced till dawn
Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 3d ago”As the fog of crisis settled on the capital, the Oloffson sometimes seemed like a beacon, pointing towards the future, its very existence promising to make good on the popular post-quake motto: ‘Haiti will not perish’." @bhatiap.bsky.social recounts the storied history of the Hotel Oloffson
"I believe the contemporary far right is a cross-class phenomenon ... a movement that brings together an underclass that has given up waiting on the promises of modernisation ... and an elite who no longer even pretends those promises are on offer." www.equator.org/articles/bra...
Brazil: The Future of the Far Right • EQUATOR
The limits of Lulismo, the sons of Bolsonaro and the new politics of disintegration
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Hadn't realised it had burnt down, once enjoyed drinks on the veranda, back in the days of Baby Doc. www.equator.org/articles/hot...
After the Dance • EQUATOR
When the Hotel Oloffson burned to the ground, a dream of another Haiti died
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”As the fog of crisis settled on the capital, the Oloffson sometimes seemed like a beacon, pointing towards the future, its very existence promising to make good on the popular post-quake motto: ‘Haiti will not perish’." @bhatiap.bsky.social recounts the storied history of the Hotel Oloffson
Could not sign up faster for @equatormag.bsky.social. Didn't know they existed before reading @literaryhub.bsky.social's glowing praise in their #LitMagWeek coverage, but this is MY JAM.
"We should start talking now about a list of crimes so long and so perverse that – as in the years following the Nazi Holocaust – humanity will require decades to tally them." I have been waiting for someone to write this piece. Bravo to @equatormag.bsky.social for publishing this.
We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves • EQUATOR
How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide
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Dit is al bijna een jaar geleden geschreven maar zó goed en zó actueel. Lees het. www.equator.org/articles/we-...
We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves • EQUATOR
How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide
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Want to better understand the "far right" in Brazil 🇧🇷? Read this excellent interview with Rodrigo Nunes in @equatormag.bsky.social
Brazil: The Future of the Far Right • EQUATOR
The limits of Lulismo, the sons of Bolsonaro and the new politics of disintegration
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“When politics is colonised by the attention economy, then public discourse becomes a constantly shifting sea of outrage. Today, this; tomorrow, that. It is a state of affairs entirely inimical to emancipatory politics….” This from @equatormag.bsky.social is an X-ray of the global political crisis.
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 6d ago"Rodrigo Nunes @equatormag.bsky.social provides one the best, broadly applicable descriptions of rise of far right politics (in Brazil) that u will read"-@nikhil_palsingh Far-right mobilizes voters 1 cross-class 2 law & order 3 attention grabs online over organizing www.equator.org/articles/bra...
This analysis of the far right in Brasil is spot on - and to me it also describes the politics of ressentiment in the UK and the US as well. It is just that in these two countries, it is targeted at migrants. www.equator.org/articles/bra...
One of Turkey's great chroniclers of the Cold War, the novelist Sevgi Soysal was among the thousands of leftists arrested after the 1971 coup. Her incredible prison diaries are now being published in English for the first time.
"Genocide is not just the destruction of a people, it is also the obliteration of that people’s store of memories and, with it, the destruction of their ability to see themselves historically." www.equator.org/articles/dus...
Dusklands • EQUATOR
Growing up in the shadow of genocide
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“Genocide is not just the destruction of a people, it is also the obliteration of that people’s store of #memories and, with it, the destruction of their ability to see themselves #historically” www.equator.org/articles/dus...
Dusklands • EQUATOR
Growing up in the shadow of genocide
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Je ne vous apprends rien mais très bientôt, il se tiendra une élection fort importante, où l'extrême droite risque de gagner gros. Je parle bien sûr du Brésil. Prenez donc une petite pause du pathétique shitshow de la politique québécoise : www.equator.org/articles/bra...
Brazil: The Future of the Far Right • EQUATOR
The limits of Lulismo, the sons of Bolsonaro and the new politics of disintegration
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Dit interview met Rodrigo Nunes is zoveel meer informatief, onderbouwd en gelaagd dan de oppervlakkige bullshit die we hier krijgen opgediend als "analyse". Het gaat over Brazilië, maar als je het leest zul je zien dat het net zo goed over ons gaat. www.equator.org/articles/bra...
Brazil: The Future of the Far Right • EQUATOR
The limits of Lulismo, the sons of Bolsonaro and the new politics of disintegration
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"The heirs of dependency theory historicized modernization theory, arguing that it had been the ideology of a period of capitalist expansion, when the horizon of expectations was permanent growth." Now that consensus about "the horizon of future" has been deranged.... www.equator.org/articles/bra...
Brazil: The Future of the Far Right • EQUATOR
The limits of Lulismo, the sons of Bolsonaro and the new politics of disintegration
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Absolutely fantastic analysis — by Rodrigo Nunes, interviewed by Carlos Pérez — of the contemporary far right, not just in Brazil where the election is imminent, but everywhere. www.equator.org/articles/bra...
Brazil: The Future of the Far Right • EQUATOR
The limits of Lulismo, the sons of Bolsonaro and the new politics of disintegration
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As Brazil heads to the polls on Sunday to decide between Lula da Silva and Flavio Bolsonaro, former president Javier Bolsonaro’s son, Equator asked Rodrigo Nunes about his assessment of Lula’s third term, the origins of Bolsonarismo and what Brazil reveals about the global far right.
Brazil: The Future of the Far Right www.equator.org/articles/bra... Rodrigo Nunes Interviewed by Carlos Pérez The limits of Lulismo, the sons of Bolsonaro and the new politics of disintegration Via @equatormag.bsky.social
Brazil: The Future of the Far Right • EQUATOR
The limits of Lulismo, the sons of Bolsonaro and the new politics of disintegration
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Mahmoud Khalil could've been any of us.
Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 2w ago“If they succeeded with me, a permanent resident with no criminal history, imagine what they could do to others. To the men sleeping in bunks around me, who had no lawyers, no press, no one watching.” www.equator.org/articles/mah...
I fear that most liberal leaders are in deep denial about the urgency with which we need a Gaza reckoning before we save this country from fascism. Must-read interview: www.equator.org/articles/bid... @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social @equatormag.bsky.social
Guilty Men • EQUATOR
A new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide
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"These are people who were shaped by the arc of post-9/11 policy in the region, and frankly they didn’t look at it with any degree of introspection or reflection.. They all have War on Terror-levels of comfort with civilian casualties." @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social in @equatormag.bsky.social
Frederick Deknatel@freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 2w ago"It is almost impossible to overstate their desire to avoid responsibility." @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social to @shainin.bsky.social on his "incriminating account of America’s foreign policy establishment, even as Biden’s top staffers are busy whitewashing their reputations elsewhere in the media."
A new book thoroughly documents America's complicity in genocide www.equator.org/articles/bid...
Guilty Men • EQUATOR
A new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide
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From the Editors
The most influential journals are rarely the products of tranquil times. Their significance is often measured by their ability to confront historical rupture, rather than the length of their run. In 1944, as the violence of world wor scaled toward atomic annihilation, Dwight Macdonald founded his radical journal, Politics, to survey the wreck age. A year later, Les Temps Modernes rose from the ruins of occupied France to forge the twin languages of existentialism and anticolonialism.
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Equator was not founded to issue political blue-prints, but to be a home for this reclamation of the future to begin. In these early days of an era whose outcome no one can predict, we want to capsize dogmes and tell new stories. Our aim is to cultivate a fresh canon of think-ers who can reveal the world in unfamiliar ways, yield-ing vocabularies capable of comprehending new political horizons and to advocate a renewed cosmopolitanism. In a globalised world, cosmopolitanism has been degraded by association with Davos elites and obscene wealth. The cosmopolitanism we pursue is different. We do not want, in Aimé Césaire's phrase, to become lost in a disembodied universalism, but to embrace instead what he called "a universal rich with all that is particular". Our ambition is to make Equator a living experiment in this philosophy: one that does not flatten differences into a bland global citizenship, but seeks instead the shock of recognition that comes when people separated by geography encounter one another's entangled histories and experiences and find, unexpectedly, that they recog-nise themselves.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dznocaybitnm7bcttrw4z3kv/bafkreiaa3w676u4fsy4qscwrsp7trpdcas4vjpmmqwgytdycvkfzxf3f4e)
