✍️New Article Available!
"For the peoples in movement to overcome the current state of things, it is imperative to recuperate the type of world, society, or “values” that the system has cornered and intends to destroy."
"Peoples in Movement Organize through Community and Use Values" by Raúl Zibechi, from Issue 01 of Democratic Modernity, is now available online at: academyofsocialscience.org/2…
Listen to what cannot be heard, look for that which cannot be seen, be attentive to that which overflows from the categories: is this the sociology of freedom?
Truth has its basis in the really-existing practices and dreams of everyday communising...
If we are to be truly realistic then we must demand the “impossible.”
To refuse reality is to confront a crisis deeper than politics, economy, or society, for even our language itself must be recovered and relearned — so that we may finally write the words that speak.
"Unidisciplinarity and the Promise of a Sociology of Freedom" by Andrej Grubačić, from Issue 01 of Democratic Modernity, is now available online!
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JOIN THE NEW RESEARCH COMMUNE - DEMOCRATIC FOODWAYS: BIOCULTURAL LANDSCAPES AND CUISINES
This research commune aims to focus on existing and past experiments in autonomous foodways.
🧵We want to document, study and share traditional and emerging ecological knowledges and practices that cultivate balanced relations among plants, animals, people.
For more information and to register to participate in the Commune: academyofsocialscience.org/d…
Without hope we are paralyzed, unable to create. But what hope is possible in today's world?
"On Democratic Modernity; Or, To Hope in the Aftermath" by @historyastheory, from the First Issue of Democratic Modernity, is now available on our website!
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"A democratic civilizational perspective is an opening, a refusal of panic in this time of monsters, when the old world is dying and the new world still struggles to be born.
Another civilization is not only possible, it already surrounds us.
We only need to recognise ourselves in its past, see its practical reality everywhere today, and recognise how our actions always already ripple through its depths into the future.
And so we can hope."
"Power lies not only in institutions but in how people make sense of their world; hegemony is a political and cultural process. Art, in its most valid form, is a powerful force for change."
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Havin Guneser and Anna Clara Basilicò will introduce the Academy of Social Science, its communes, and the journal Democratic Modernity as a collective platform for anti-oppressive, decolonial, bottom-up learning, research, and political education.
The event offers an accessible entry point into democratic modernity as a horizon of hope rooted in feminist struggle, community self-organization, and transnational solidarity.
A Q&A will follow the discussion.
We are excited to take part in the 2 day conference "The Kurdistan Freedom Movement at a Crossroads" on the 26th and 27th of March at the University of Torino.
Organized by Rete Italiana di Studi Curdi, the conference will bring together scholars and activists from different contexts to discuss the situation in the Middle East and the role of the Kurdish Freedom Movement's struggle.
Our Havin Guneser will take part to the talk "Meaning and Impact of the PKK's Decision to Disarm and Dissolve" on the 26th of March at 7PM, at Campus Einaudi.
"Democratic Modernity" will also be presented on the 27th of March at 2.30 PM, in the Aula Magna, Campus Einaudi.