Letter of Support for Scholars in Poland
We, the editors of the New Fascism Syllabus, condemn the suppression of academic freedom in Poland and the recent attacks on our colleagues, Dr. Barbara […]
Antisemitism
The Documenta, Indonesia, and the Problem of Closed Universes
The Taring Padi art collective was formed in 1998 after the fall of the Suharto dictatorship. Explicitly radical, it is dedicated to antimilitarism, anti-neoliberalism, to […]
Art Is Political: Is Documenta Afraid of the Global South?
documenta, the world’s most important international exhibition of contemporary art, has been held in the German city of Kassel every five years since 1955 and […]
Why Right-Wing Appropriation of Commemoration Harms the Fight against Anti-Semitism
This article was republished on the New Fascism Syllabus with the permission of the author and the original publisher, Berliner Zeitung We the invited […]
Learning and Unlearning with Taring Padi: Reflections on Documenta
This article was republished on the New Fascism Syllabus with the permission of the author and the original publisher, Berliner Zeitung I have not […]
Stones Can Talk Back: Vergangenheitsbewältigung Revisited
The German Catechism, as laid out in Dirk Moses’ essay, was not always as binding as it now seems. Not long ago, in 2017, Benjamin […]
In Absentia of Black Study
Last week, the German government offered a recognition of its early 20th century genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama people in what was then German […]
