by Alp Kayserilioğlu | Oct 5, 2026 | Alex Callinicos, Alp Kayserilioğlu, Highlight 1, Jodi Dean
“Internationalism and emancipation in times of catastrophe,” by Alp Kayserilioğlu, is a Communis original feature. “Colonial-imperialist oppression and exploitation does not cause a specific form of resistance; it rather provides a background in relation to which...
by Hashem Abushama | Jul 24, 2026 | Abdaljawad Omar, Archive, Bayan Haddad, Nadia Bou Ali
“Farewell to Kamla. Death as Politics,” by Hashem Abushama, is a Communis original feature. “Memory, Saidiya Hartman reminds us, acts like a phantom limb, a sensation that something—the limb, the geography—is still there, which bucks and kicks with all the pains...
by Peter D. Thomas, Andrew Anastasi | May 1, 2026 | Archive, Peter D. Thomas
“The Pedagogical Laboratory,” now appearing for the first time, brings together Andrew Anastasi and Peter D. Thomas in an extended exchange on Thomas’ book Radical Politics: On the Causes of Contemporary Emancipation (Oxford University Press, 2023). “Before we can...
by Marc James Léger | Mar 5, 2026 | Archive, Marc James Léger
The film is composed in the head of the spectator; it is not a work of art that exists on the screen by itself. – Alexander Kluge In the nineteenth century, the Paris Salon was an occasion at which art and politics were so highly sublimated that radicalism could come...
by Carsten Juhl | Dec 26, 2025 | Abdaljawad Omar, Archive, Carsten Juhl, Monika Janulevičiūtė
“The Hurbinek Effect”, de Carsten Juhl, apareció originalmente el 23 de julio de 2025 como parte de la quinta entrega (“Exilic Politics”) de la serie “Letters”, en dabartis.com, acompañado de textos de Abdaljawad Omar, Monika Janulevičiūtė y Peter Weiss, presentados...