Thursday, 23 March 2023
Aragorn Eloff is the information and technology manager at New Frame. He occasionally writes articles on subversive theory and radical politics.
While commonly viewed as a damaging form of contemporary left-wing politics, cancel culture is a symptom of a much deeper problem: the rapid erosion of our lives by computational capitalism.
Don’t Look Up has been celebrated as an influential piece of environmental cinema. But what if it encourages us to actually think less about the urgency of mobilising to address climate change?
A radical collective committed to change in the face of climate collapse calls for global solidarity and a turn to the worker to revolutionise how we relate to the world.
Pharmaceutical companies stand to make billions from the Covid-19 pandemic, but the vaccines they have developed are the fruits of the collective labour of all of humanity.
Critical reviews of the new documentary Planet of the Humans have missed its key point: capitalism can never be sustainable.
The danger of conspiracy theories is their ability to breed apathy and resignation, offering an easy narrative that makes people susceptible to influence and limits social change. There is another way.
Silvia Federici shows how capitalism has captured our bodies and proposes possibilities for reclaiming and recreating them to resist the present and prefigure the future.
By practising new forms of commoning, of doing and being together, we can begin to wield a different kind of power.
Poet-philosopher Édouard Glissant’s life was defined by the project of rethinking the relation between self, other and world: creating an entirely new form of being together.
Somatherapy, an eclectic mix of individual therapy, radical political education and collective trust exercises, aims to overcome social repression that materialises in the body.
Soundz of the South use their radical music and politics as concrete alternatives to hierarchical, capitalist ways of living.