Article 13: “Everyone has the right to freedom of movement”
“Why count the victims of migration? Why engage in this macabre accounting, trying, in the absence of official data, to gather together the figures that NGOs struggle to collect? Because the victims...
View ArticleThe sociology of sex: enlarge your perspective on Europe
For several years now, the European Union has been interested in the question of sexuality. In 2002, Van Lancker made the suggestion in a report from the EU Parliament to initiating “peer review”...
View ArticleIntroducing the European School of Social Imagination
When it comes to imagination and its social implications, both empowering and dangerous, few are as experienced as Franco “Bifo” Berardi. As a media activist, the Italian philosopher and agitator was...
View ArticleThe European Council, addicted to Twitter? Well almost…
The social network platform Twitter broke the one billion tweets barrier as it celebrated its fifth anniversary in March of this year. Since October of 2010, the European Council and its President...
View ArticleTwo centuries of propaganda in posters
Editors Note: Captions below the vintage ads may not be a direct translation, and in many instances are commentary from the author. Today’s post is covered in dust and filled with retro possibilities....
View ArticleDemocracy vs Mythology: The Battle in Syntagma Square
I have never been more desperate to explain and more hopeful for your understanding of any single fact than this: The protests in Greece concern all of you directly. What is going on in Athens at the...
View ArticleOpen data: Challenge accepted!
Over the last eighteen months, we’ve seen an explosion in open data legislation in Europe, including Helsinki, Paris, Munich, Manchester and the Basque territory. Pushed by European Parliament...
View ArticleIn Pictures: ACTA Protests in Europe
On February 11 tens of thousands of people in towns and cities throughout Europe took to the streets to voice their opposition to ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement currently awaiting...
View ArticleThe Week In Data
Inbetween projects for clients, the guys at the Stamen studio of design and technology in California have been indulging their passion for mapping. Marrying their skills with their interests – and...
View ArticleEU Earmarking Billions to ‘Secure’ Borders
Ceuta, on the Spanish-Moroccan border. On the other side of the barbed wire lies Morocco. 2002 ©Bruno Arbesu via Picture Tank In an effort to manage migration flows and keep watch on its borders,...
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