Objects of Political Desire is a new monthly column, curated by Rui Tavares, looking at the past, present, and future of political desire, to explore what drives people to partake in politics. You can read all the articles here and sign up to our newsletter below to get it in your inbox as soon as a new article is published.
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Politics should be less about the form and more about our desire for change.
Read moreRejecting emotional politics altogether won’t fight fearmongering but providing a vision of a desirable future can.
Read moreEmma Goldman’s story exemplifies how desire can build a more just society.
Read more49 years later, Portugal’s Carnation Revolution still teaches a vital lesson to today’s democratic politics.
Read moreA short story about your dearest memory and the money you did not know it was worth.
Read moreWhy memory matters: it makes us historical subjects capable of imagining the future.
Read moreAs sociologist Eric Klinenberg reminds us in his eponymous book, libraries are “palaces for the people”.
Read moreEurope has no shortage of libraries and yet there is no European Library. How can that be?
Read moreFaced with current challenges, some in the Green movement are urging strategic change.
Read moreThe Right enjoys electoral success by exploiting resentment. Why shouldn’t progressives do the same?
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