Trans Panic Comes to Germany
This article was republished on the New Fascism Syllabus with the permission of the author and the original publisher, Der Spiegel Under the banner […]
Germany
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 […]
Whose War Is It?
This article was originally written for Yossi Bartal’s course, “Seemingly Inseparable: Reporting and Debating Israel-Palestine, Antisemitism, and Racism in German Media,” at Bard College Berlin […]
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 […]
Historical Injury and Multidirectional Solidarity in Times of Crisis
For me, extending my support to and expressing solidarity with Ukraine means acknowledging my personal history of injury. Lately, every news story triggered a series […]
Priests, Catechisms and Heretics: Some Thoughts on Dirk Moses’ Remarks
This article was republished on the New Fascism Syllabus with the permission of the author and the original publisher, NeilGregor.com In a spirited, provocative […]
In Support of Difficult History
Anna Hájková, a historian of sexuality in the Holocaust, notes that investigating queer and other “deviant” sexuality requires a certain stamina. Probing the gaps in […]
