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Gorica Orsholits

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inciteseminars.com Continental philosophy PhD European Graduate School, University of Toronto dissent.art

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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 5h
November 28, 2026. ⏱️ 13:00-14:30 Eastern US time / 19:00-20:30 Central European Time. The aim of the reading group is to approach #Badiou’s artistic configuration in Inaesthetics from a philosophical standpoint, as well as from an anti-philosophical ground. inciteseminars.com/reading-badi...
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
THE CONTEMPORARY FIGURE OF THE SOLDIER IN POLITICS AND POETRY • #ALAINBADIOU www.lacan.com/badsold.htm
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 24/09/2026
Zohran Mamdani is launching “Opera for All,” a partnership between New York City and the Metropolitan Opera that will distribute 70,000 free tickets every year to New Yorkers who’ve never attended. And it’s not a one-off: Mamdani says the program will be permanent. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Unlike Trump, Mamdani is actually boosting the arts
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani scored points for a working progressive government again.
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
inciteseminars.com/untimely-bla... (Un)Timely #Blanchot a 4-session seminar with #PhilippeLynes, #AlexObrigewitsch, #KimSchoof & #CarlosA.Segovia 4 Sundays, October 4, 11, 18, 25, 2026 ⏰ 10:00–12:00 Eastern Time Zone • 16:00–18:00 Central European Time
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#Zurich
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today, September 23, 2026, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of jazz saxophonist #JohnColtrane. John Coltrane, considéré après Charlie Parker comme le saxophoniste le plus révolutionnaire et influent de l'histoire du jazz, aurait eu 100 ans ce 23 septembre.
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Syeeda's Song Flute (2020 Remaster)
YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Join us for a weekly close reading of #Gramsci’s #PrisonNotebooks! The group has a twofold goal:first, to analyze contemporary political events through the categories formulated in the text;and second, to critically examine potential blind spots in Gramsci’s work. inciteseminars.com/reading-gram...
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This book presents #Badiou’s seminar on #Nietzsche’s late works, which for the first time addresses what would become one of his central concepts: anti-philosophy and its adversarial yet intimate relationship with philosophy. cup.columbia.edu/book/nietzsc...
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
On 26February1992, the Slovenian government quietly deleted1.3%of its citizenryThe criterion was that anyone born in another part of the formerYugoslavia who was a permanent resident ofSlovenia lost their citizenshipThe goal was to cleanse Slovenia of a Balkan"fifth column”and pivot closer to Europe
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The spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror | Miha Mazzini
In February that year, the Slovenian government officially deleted 25,000 citizens, turning them overnight into illegal immigrants, says writer and film-maker Miha Mazzini
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I had no idea of this extraordinary episode. I reminds us of how easily people can be declared "illegal" or "immigrant" rather than native. These are not natural kinds, but administrative categories. Striking parallels with the Windrush scandal. Of interest to all, but tagging @spe07.bsky.social
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The spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror | Miha Mazzini
In February that year, the Slovenian government officially deleted 25,000 citizens, turning them overnight into illegal immigrants, says writer and film-maker Miha Mazzini
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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...
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Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape
According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Anybody who will eat that kind of food for those kind of prices will never look at a painting of mine." meron.design/blogs/art/ro...
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Why Mark Rothko Sabotaged the Four Seasons Art Murals
In 1958, Mark Rothko took $35,000 to paint murals for the Four Seasons restaurant—then returned the money to keep plutocrats from enjoying his art.
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
apophasis.press “Painting as a threshold where that which we see before us drifts tremulously into the unseen. Music as sound and resonance that so scuttles our senses we cannot but be submerged in the surging sea of immediacy.”
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 28/08/2026
For violinist Michael Barenboim, Germany’s memory culture has become a tool for upholding complicity in Israel's crimes and rendering Palestinians invisible. By @hahauenstein.bsky.social Read more: www.972mag.com/michael-bare...
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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wonderful overview by @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social of the retrospective program this year at the Locarno Film Festival: "Red & Black – Hollywood Left and the Blacklist." She discusses 17 films, from established classics to authentic rarities: www.rogerebert.com/festivals/lo...
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Locarno Film Festival 2026: 17 Urgent Hollywood Blacklist Films
A look at the daring retrospective program from this year's Locarno.
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“The Decline and Fall of the ‘Spectacular’ Commodity-Economy “ dissent.art/sick-planet/
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Sick Planet – dissent.art
A Sick Planet — Guy Debord Is racism an environmental threat? — Ghassan Hage The book argues that the classifications and the practices that constitute colonial racism and the practices that have gene...
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
ROJA Collective 29-08-2026 Ten Lessons from Iran on Anti-Imperialism: Notes on Imperialist War, Domestic Repression, Campism, and Internationalism from Below #Portolanjournal
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Philosophies of Chaos and the Construction of the Pluriverse - Hannes Schumacher Dear friends, you're all welcome to join our next seminar on Wed 2 September, at 16:00 CEST with Hannes Schumacher @incitesem www.ereignis.no/events/seminar
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The Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts is a non-profit, community-driven organisation dedicated to advancing research, education, and outreach in philosophy and the arts. Our administration i...
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Flash floods on #Nepal-Tibetborder leave scores dead and hundreds missing.The worldwide environmental destruction brought about by the explosive advance of global capitalism has plunged the planet into crisis.Related disasters are occurring everywhere:rising ocean levels caused by melting glaciers
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For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy the Environment
The worldwide environmental destruction brought about by the explosive advance of global capitalism has plunged the planet into crisis. The amount of fossil fuels consumed by the world population a…
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....
Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist. 

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Threat to Quebec’s French language, identity key reason Carney ends trade talks with Trump. montrealgazette.com/news/quebec-...
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Threat to Quebec’s French language, identity key reason Carney ends trade talks with Trump
Quebec entered a perilous new phase of the trade war Saturday after trade talks between Canada and the U.S. collapsed.
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
People joined a demonstration against budget cuts in #Geneva on Monday evening.The #publicsector and the subsidized sector have been mobilizing since last November in response to the planned austerity measures. Trade unions have strongly criticised the proposed new cost-cutting measures.
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
To be a prominent antiracist Black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments. You know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch mob. My latest @TheEmancipator.org. theemancipator.org/2026/08/15/i...
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The Media Lynched Jason Arday
The death yesterday of Jason Arday, a 41-year-old Black scholar who resigned from the University of Cambridge after waves of attacks over the last few weeks, hits close to home. His death left me so d...
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
« As far as I am concerned, I quite agree that philosophy depends on some non-philosophical fields. And I have called these fields the "conditions" of philosophy. » #Badiou www.lacan.com/symptom8_art...
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
#Shinjuku station- #Tokyo
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 31/07/2026
Quincy Institute: 17 new firms registered under FARA to work for Israeli interests in 2024 and 2025. quincyinst.org/research/the...
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The Eighth Front: Inside Israel’s $1 Billion Influence Campaign
The Israeli government has spent more than $1 billion in direct expenditures on public diplomacy since the Hamas–led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, a dramatic escalation in such spending. This represents…
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
FENCES OF SHAME ON EUROPE’S SOUTHERN BORDER #Spain-Morocco Some 60,000 migrants have entered the Spanish territory of #Ceuta from Morocco in the past 24 hours.At least 34 migrants have died.The #Melillafence, designed to separate Europe from its impoverished neighbours, has been financed by the EU
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Analyzing #politicalconservatism as motivated social cognition integrates theories of personality (authoritarianism, dogmatism–intolerance of ambiguity), epistemic and existential needs (for closure, regulatory focus, terror management)… gspp.berkeley.edu/archived/fil...
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Should controversial thinkers and ideas be published? In our latest issue, #PhilosophyNow published an interview with #AntonioNegri (1933-2023), one of the most influential and controversial Marxist philosophers of recent decades: philosophynow.org/issues/174/A...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 22/07/2026
When Ramsey Zeid’s parents — now aged 83 and 81, respectively — saw stories from the Nakba on display at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights last month, they were left speechless. “All their lives they’ve been told, ‘No, the Nakba never happened.’ This was almost validation for them.
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Exhibit at Canada’s Human Rights Museum Shatters Myths About Israel’s Founding
Pro-Israel lobby groups have pressured the museum for years not to showcase the stories of Palestinian Canadians.
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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
On this day in 1925, psychiatrist and anti-colonial theorist, Frantz Fanon is born in Martinique. anticolonialhistory.com/event/180/
Uncredited photo from first edition dust jacket of Black Skin, White Masks published in US in 1967, without an explicit copyright notice
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Greetings from Paris Although Derrida was of the Left, one can’t say that his philosophy was “Leftist”. “He once told me-this is, if I may so, more than and better than “being on the Left” in a conformist and politically correct way.”Nancy www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/articles/on-...
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Next week at École Normale Supérieure I will participate in the #DerridaToday conference derridatoday.com.au/conference/
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
#UN Convenes 193 Countries in #Geneva for First #GlobalAIGovernanceDialogue With AI advancing at "runaway speed", U.N. Secretary-General #AntonioGuterres cautioned that "an experiment is being run on our own societies, without a plan and without consent". saganote.com/un-ai-govern...
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Three #Swissmuseums have officially returned 18 cultural artefacts, known as the #BeninBronzes, to #Nigeria. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...
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Swiss museums return Benin bronzes to Nigeria
Three Swiss museums return 18 cultural artefacts, known as the Benin Bronzes, to Nigeria.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Even as Prime Minister Mark Carney touts his plans to protect Canada’s economic sovereignty, the country’s critical minerals are making their way into U.S. weapons." Available in EN, ES, IT and AR.
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Elbows up? Canada is letting Pentagon take ‘unprecedented’ stakes in Canadian mines
Canada is fast-tracking critical mineral mining while U.S. Pentagon funding and ownership stakes quietly redirect those minerals toward American weapons production.
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
On June 28, 1914, 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. This single event triggered World War I. More than a century later, his legacy remains deeply divisive and is actively contested across the Balkan region. www.academia.edu/27596654/Rem...
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Remembering Gavrilo Princip
Remembering Gavrilo Princip
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Portolan, which refers to ancient sea navigation charts, provides a space for theoretical analyses of contemporary political events, perspectives, and projects in a conjuncture characterized by global turmoil and new challenges. portolan-journal.org
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Reuters @reuters.com · 22/06/2026
German state election draws Bauhaus into AfD culture war reut.rs/449xQJD
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German state election draws Bauhaus into AfD culture war
A century after its birth as a radical centre of modernist design, Germany's historic Bauhaus school has become a symbol of a brewing culture war ahead of a state election that could ​see the far-right AfD party win power for the first time.
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Greetings from Salerno, Italy 👋
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The new volume from IRGAC and kollektiv orangotango brings together more than 50 first-hand accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, activists, artists, and scholars from around the world, focusing on the sensuous and emotional dimension of their strategies irgac.org/publications...
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Thousands of #anti-G7 protesters are expected to gather in Geneva on Sunday.The demonstration is being organised by the #No-G7coalition, which brings together more than 60 unions, associations and left-wing groups. The alliance says it is protesting against “fascism and imperialism”.
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Ebibi @ebibi.fr · 12/06/2026
Coucou de Genève
Photo de la gazette NO G7 à Genève
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13/06/2026
Peruvian economist and public policy expert Gustavo Guerra-García Picasso says “democracy has been undermined” by Keiko Fujimori and her right-wing coalition, and that “reforms must be implemented quickly to restore a presidential system with checks and balances.”
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Peru Votes for President Amid Trump’s “Unprecedented Program of Aggression” Against Leftists in Region
Peru’s presidential runoff is too close to call as ballots continue to be counted from Sunday’s election between Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, and leftist lawmaker Robe...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13/06/2026
As Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire, the consolidation of wealth and power in the hands of a few tech oligarchs raises serious questions about the health of Western democracy, says historian @quinnslobodian.com.
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Quinn Slobodian on SpaceX IPO, How Musk’s Wealth Warps the Economy & Fuels “Neo-Fascist” Politics
Ahead of the initial public offering for SpaceX, we speak with historian Quinn Slobodian, author of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. He says Elon Musk is “creating a situation where he becomes deep...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 12/06/2026
Last week, one of New York's most iconic universities, The New School, laid off 19 full-time faculty and 68 staff members. Along with coerced "voluntary" separations and early retirements since December 2025, these mass firings constitute a major gutting of The New School's full-time faculty.
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“Cautionary Tale”: NYC’s The New School Guts Faculty & Staff as Colleges Intensify Austerity
The Trump administration is continuing its assault on higher education, but in a departure from its earlier high-profile fights with individual institutions like Harvard, it is now rewriting the feder...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 12/06/2026
The environmental toll of the AI boom continues to mount as tech companies use ever more power to run their data centers and use enormous amounts of water for cooling. A new investigation by U.N. scientists warns that AI's water use in 2030 will match the needs of 1.3 billion people.
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“New Form of Imperialism”: Renowned U.N. Scientist on AI Boom’s Huge Water, Carbon & Land Footprint
The environmental toll of the artificial intelligence boom continues to mount as tech companies use ever more power to run their data centers and use enormous amounts of water for cooling. A new inves...
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
#HenriLefebvre - Space, Philosophy and the Political The book emphasizes political elements of Lefebvre's work such as his understanding of nationalism, ideology and anti-fascism www.bloomsbury.com/uk/henri-lef...
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 10/06/2026
Jean Ziegler, figure de la gauche suisse et critique du capitalisme, est mort à 92 ans
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Jean Ziegler, figure de la gauche suisse et critique du capitalisme, est mort à 92 ans
Sociologue, écrivain, professeur à l’université de Genève et diplomate onusien, il s’est illustré par sa dénonciation du capitalisme « cannibale », des inégalités et du rôle parfois controversé de la place financière suisse.
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Gorica Orsholits @gorsholits.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The band #MassiveAttack projected images of the audience generated through facial recognition software as an unnerving reality check and a warning against Palantir. novaramedia.com/2026/06/01/m...
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Massive Attack Is Taking Aim at Palantir
Legendary trip-hop group Massive Attack is using an artistic rendering of notorious spy-tech firm Palantir’s own product against it. Gary McQuiggin reports.
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