19 June 2026 / 17:00 – 18:30h @ Fort van Sjakoo Songs and music are integral to anti-caste movements in India. The songs and sonic imaginations inspired by the radical Indian anti-caste thinker and leader Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (1891—1956) form the anchor for this conversation with writer and publisher from Nagpur/India, Yogesh Maitreya, and Amsterdam-based […]
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Thursday, 11 June, 2026 – 17:00 to 19:00 Fascism and authoritarianism are often framed as a danger in the future that paradoxically resembles a relapse into the past: If we do not defend our democracy now, we might experience again what we believed to have left behind. Informed by the interventions of black radical thinkers and activists such
Thursday, 18 June, 2026 – 17:00 to 19:00 This talk argues that the degrowth movement has two blind spots at its theoretical core. The first concerns militarism. The vast apparatus of modern warfare — the logistics, the accounting systems, the nationalism needed to make people willing to fight — was not a byproduct of capitalist growth but one
Op 22 mei om 17:00 u zal in het Fort van Sjakoo, Jodenbreestraat 24, Amsterdam, Herman de Tollenaere samen met Diana Ozon spreken over vroege Nederlandse punk. Onlangs publiceerde Active Distribution Punk Anarchy in Action over de relatie tussen anarchisme en punk. Een hoofdstuk hier in door Herman de Tollenaere gaat over anarchisme en punk
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