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Critical Thought

A stone with white paint saying 'thug life'.

Sympathy for the folk devil: Notes on thuggery

Just as the bogeyman of colonial India – the Thug – was both racialised and criminalised, so too have been Black Lives Matter activists and those mobilised by the far-right, drawn in to false equivalence by elite politicians.

Autonomy, Anarchy, and Plastic Surgery

Autonomy, Anarchy, and Plastic Surgery

R.L Elson analyses the decisions, impacts, and outcomes of having cosmetic surgeries and procedures through the concepts of feminism, anarchy, and choice.

The colonial breach and the colonial bind

The colonial breach and the colonial bind

Siraj Izhar explores the colonial imagination that drives the genocide in Gaza, and what underlies our difficulties of confronting it.

A man's finger points to a ballot box, whilst a hand attempts to cast their ballot.

Don't let the wolf in the door: Electoral politics and fascism

Sam Lawton-Westerland considers the dilemmas that Western liberal politicians face once fascists have had their brief terms in office.

Those days

Those days

Writing from Vienna, Christopher Hütmannsberger grapples with the current state of confusion in the German-speaking Left around the genocide currently unfolding in Gaza, and argues that this is a litmus test for understanding how people respond to oppression.

Hope as a discipline

Hope as a discipline

With the world in dire straits, R. L. Elson argues that hope as a practice is critical. It must be cultivated and it forms an unavoidable first stage of action.

Dogs of war

Dogs of war

Understanding the police, military or prison dog as a form of legal terror. Many people of colour carry fear/trauma relating to a dog: why is that?