DENNIS BROE surveys the offerings made at Series Mania Festival
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JOHN GREEN recommends introductory reading for those interested in understanding the existential issues
Extinction Rebellion stage a mass occupation in Windsor Great Park. Activists are calling for the Government to create and be led by a citizens' assembly on climate and ecological justice, August 30, 2024.
SCOTT ALSWORTH assesses the follow up to Disco Elysium, the first-ever genuinely Marxist videogame
GEORGE FOGARTY wallows in a celebration of music as a community practice
RITA DI SANTO listens out for the undertow of political film-making at this year’s festival
This year’s Venice Biennale marks a major shift in European cultural politics suggests CLARE CAROLIN
ANGUS REID applauds the potential of an ambitious show about Gaza, and encourages it to keep its nerve
The Insecurity Trap – A Short Guide to Transformation
By Paul Rogers with Judith Large, Hawthorn Press, £11.99
IN this slim volume, Paul Rogers offers a succinct summary of the chief crises threatening our world today: a rapidly approaching climate catastrophe, a severe decline in UN legitimacy and global multilateral co-operation, with an increasing resort to armed response rather than diplomacy. Together, this is leading to widespread social breakdown and despair.
The author argues, though, that to give way to despair in the face of such seemingly intractable problems would be to admit defeat. There are, he argues, effective ways in which we as individuals can respond and fight to change the trajectory of our world.
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