PERSPECTA

News from every angle

Results for “Sloga

41 stories found

From Subotica to New Delhi
Politicsdanas6h ago

From Subotica to New Delhi

Serbia from Subotica to New Delhi. This slogan has nothing to do with that primitive cry from the 90s of the last century when nationalist madness was drawing the borders of an imaginary Serbian empire all the way to T

Iranian Students Protest Amid Tensions with US
PoliticsFrance 2422h ago

Iranian Students Protest Amid Tensions with US

Iranian students chanted anti-government slogans and clashed with counter-protesters at universities, demonstrating ongoing anger at the clerical leadership amidst a US military build-up aimed at pressuring Iran into a nuclear deal.

Artist Henrike Naumann used sofas, chairs and coffee tables to interrogate a divided Germany
CultureThe Guardian5d ago

Artist Henrike Naumann used sofas, chairs and coffee tables to interrogate a divided Germany

The East German-born artist, who has died aged 41, came of age in a deeply dysfunctional landscape, using furniture to reveal schisms masked by unification Mourning has many colours and many layers. One mourns people. But one can also mourn a state, a system, an ideology – even those that were deeply flawed. In 2019, the artist Henrike Naumann built an East German living room and rotated it by 90 degrees. The sofa, chairs and coffee table – all in the unmistakable aesthetic of the 1990s – climbed the wall. The carpet became vertical. Cabinets hovered near the floor alongside a CD rack, baseball badges and a flag bearing a slogan in Sütterlin script: “Beware of storm and wind and East Germans who are enraged.” The installation – titled Ostalgie (a portmanteau of the German words for “east” and “nostalgia”) – made physical what many had felt but struggled to articulate: the collapse of the GDR and its aftermath for those who had lived through it and felt it on some level as a loss. That rupture was not abstract. It tilted the room. It unsettled the ground beneath your feet. Continue reading...

Iranians chant anti-government slogans
PoliticsYahooKorea Herald1d ago2 sources

Iranians chant anti-government slogans

Iranian students chanted anti-government slogans and scuffled with counterprotesters on Saturday in the latest display of anger at the country's clerical leaders, who also face a US military build-up aimed at pressuring them into a nuclear deal. The gatherings at universities, which were reported by both local and diaspora media outlets, followed a mass protest movement that was met with a government crackdown last month that left thousands dead. The crackdown had prompted US President Donald Tr

BJP protests nationwide in response to Congress' 'topless' AI Summit protest
PoliticsNYTTimes of India2d ago2 sources

BJP protests nationwide in response to Congress' 'topless' AI Summit protest

BJP staged nationwide protests after Indian Youth Congress workers disrupted the India AI Impact Summit, displaying slogans against PM Modi. Four IYC leaders were arrested. BJP workers also showed black flags to Rahul Gandhi in Mumbai, accusing the Congress of an 'anti-national' act and demanding an apology for the 'shameful' summit disruption.

Gangsterism review – dense, high-minded cine-manifesto on the notion of auteurism
CultureThe Guardian7d ago

Gangsterism review – dense, high-minded cine-manifesto on the notion of auteurism

Canadian experimentalist Isiah Medina’s latest flits between radical and grandiloquent, but deserves close reading and exasperated sighs in equal measure ‘If cinema was a 19th-century dream actualised in the 20th century through chemistry, then the auteur was a 20th-century dream that needs to be actualised in the 21st through digital.” Canadian experimentalist Isiah Medina is hellbent on that task in his latest feature, which almost entirely comprises a troupe of po-faced cineastes declaiming such theory-freighted slogans, and bemoaning what dogs the genuine auteur these days: western-centric power hierarchies, industry racism, the economic exclusion of serious artistic work, the tyranny of language. It’s dense stuff, and staged at an ironic, if not quite playful, remove. Mark Bacolcol plays Clem, a director struggling to finance his next feature in the face of the system. Boyfriend Ez (Kalil Haddad) is an unblinking ideologue, who peps Clem up by telling him: “Be proud: regardless of race, most people don’t like your work.” Collaborators Nico (Jonalyn Aguilar) and March (Charlotte Zhang) are struggling to hurdle the same structural obstacles. A hipster collage in his office juxtaposes Mao’s Cultural Revolution with the title of Armond White’s 2020 book Make Spielberg Great Again. Needless to say it’s not the great white hope Clem is holding out for. Continue reading...

'Not appropriate': 'Ashamed' Congress allies, BJP rivals slam 'semi-nudity' protest at AI Summit
PoliticsTimes of India1d ago

'Not appropriate': 'Ashamed' Congress allies, BJP rivals slam 'semi-nudity' protest at AI Summit

Opposition leaders and Congress allies have criticised the Indian Youth Congress's "semi-nude" protest at the AI Impact Summit, deeming it inappropriate and shameful on an international stage. Around 10 IYC workers were detained for raising slogans against PM Modi, wearing T-shirts with controversial slogans, sparking widespread condemnation for tarnishing the country's image.