Journal
The first Issue of the journal Democratic Modernity is out now! Check the following thread to find articles and more information.
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Food and Social Nature: Foundation for Democratic Modernity
By Harriet Friedmann Food makes life joyful. It connects society to complex ecosystems in soils, to metabolism of human bodies, to public markets and shared meals. It is the foundation of democratic modernity. Of course, food makes life miserable when bonds are broken. Capitalist modernity hides the real connections between earth and mouth in long…
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On Democratic Modernity; Or, To Hope in the Aftermath
By Nik Matheou Hauntings of Capitalist Modernity I start from the principle of hope.1 Hope is the very stuff of our ability to create meaningful bonds, relationships, lives and worlds. Why commit to do something together, to start some project, to make a life, to even strike up a conversation, if you’ve no hope that…
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Art Under Capitalism
By Benedetta Argentieri On Monday morning, April 26, 1937, in the small Basque town of Guernica, women and children — the only inhabitants left since all the men were fighting in the Spanish Civil War — were going to the food market in the main square. At the same time, Nazi Germany’s aircraft started bombing…
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Defending Society is Defending Life
By Havin Guneser James Ussher was an Anglican bishop and the Archbishop of Armagh in the seventeenth century. Ussher is famous for calculating the creation of the world based on genealogies in scripture and historical events. He published his findings in a work titled Annales Veteris Testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti (Annals of the…
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Editorial
By Patrick Huff and the Editorial Collective Dear readers, We are pleased to welcome you to the inaugural issue of our journal, Democratic Modernity. This is the publication of the Academy of Social Science, an international collective of scholars, activists, artists, and people in struggle. Our perspective is rooted in the Kurdish Freedom Movement (KFM)…
