InterviewIn their book "The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World", political theorists Brett Neilson and Sandro Mezzadra offer a sweeping analysis of contemporary capitalism's shifting political geographies. As war and militarisation proliferate — from Ukraine to Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Israel, and Venezuela — their framework offers a rare and timely lens for understanding the entanglement of capital, geopolitics, and violence.
War & Violence
InterviewNearly four years after the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini triggered one of the largest uprisings in Iran since the establishment of the Islamic Republic, the political landscape has changed dramatically. State repression dismantled activist networks, imprisoned militants, and forced many activists into exile, while the military offensive carried out by Israel and the United States reshaped the political terrain. In this interview, Firoozeh Farvardin reflects on the place of feminism in a context marked by internal repression, war, and struggles over who speaks for the Iranian opposition.
InterviewIran is going through dramatic times and tectonic shifts. In this interview, Nader Talebi reflects on the Islamic regime and its tensions between a neoliberal state project and a messianic Shia imaginary, and on the waves of uprisings against a regime that enforces gender apartheid and destroys the means of reproduction of life. Against this, Talebi insists on what connects the mobilizations of the last years — a politics of life, cross-ethnic solidarity, and a revolutionary tendency that makes any dictatorship hard to sustain.
InterviewArgentinian feminist intellectual Rita Segato draws connections between the genocide in Gaza and the femicides she studied in Ciudad Juárez, and reflects about the current fascistic shift and how some of her key conceptualizations on coloniality, race, and violence, help us decipher it.
By Börries Nehe
