The threshold of fire: Man the shooter and his subhuman incendiary Other

Ahmed Diaa Dardir ~ RP 2.11 (Winter 2021), pp. 13–18 ~ Article

The white gunman and the ‘rioters, anarchists, arsonists and flag-burners’ On 25 August 2020, seventeen-year-old (white) Kyle Rittenhouse shot three antiracist protesters in the US state of Wisconsin, killing two and seriously injuring the third. Equally shocking was the impunity with which the shooting was carried out. 1 Rittenhouse was protected by the police from […]

Photograph of interior of Old Egyptian Fort, destroyed by English Fleet. July 1882, Alexandria, Egypt.

Planetary Utopias

Angela Davis, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Nikita Dhawan ~ RP 2.05 (Autumn 2019), pp. 67–78 ~ Article

This conversation was recorded on Sunday 24 June 2018 as part of the closing plenary of the symposium ‘Planetary Utopias: Hope, Desire and Imaginaries in a Postcolonial World’ (curated by Nikita Dhawan) in the ‘Colonial Repercussions’ event series at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. It was transcribed by Anna Millan and has been revised for […]