Saturn Silhouette

A startling silhouette of Saturn is created in this Cassini spacecraft portrait. Although the sun is eclipsed by Saturn in this dramatic image, some sunlight scatters through the uppermost part of the atmosphere to reach Cassini’s cameras. Link

The Politics of Genocide: Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Propaganda System

Excerpted from The Politics of Genocide (Monthly Review Press, 2009). Elsewhere we have written that the breakup of Yugoslavia “may have been the most misrepresented series of major events over the past twenty years.” But the far bloodier and more destructive invasions, insurgencies, and civil wars that have ravaged several countries in the Great Lakes … Read more

Guerrilla Communication: A Lecture (Teil 2)

monochrom präsentiert eine Vortragsreihe von Johannes Grenzfurthner. The terms guerrilla communication (and communication guerrilla) refer to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Communication guerilla is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of the paradoxes and absurdities of power, turning these into the starting point … Read more

Guerrilla Communication: A Lecture (Part 2)

monochrom presents the second part of a lecture series by Johannes Grenzfurthner. The terms guerrilla communication (and communication guerrilla) refer to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Communication guerilla is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of the paradoxes and absurdities of power, turning … Read more

The New War Between Science and Religion

There is a new war between science and religion, rising from the ashes of the old one, which ended with the defeat of the anti-evolution forces in the 2005 “intelligent design” trial. The new war concerns questions that are more profound than whether or not to teach evolution. Unlike the old science-religion war, this battle … Read more

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