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Helen Mackreath
Helen Mackreath is a researcher and writer based in Istanbul.

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Who is a Revolutionary Subject?

Essay

June 2022

Helen Mackreath

Essay

June 2022

In the face of legal restraints, police repression, political violence and the pressures and insecurity precipitated by the pandemic, the feminist movement in Turkey...
Interview with Basma Alsharif

Interview

June 2018

Helen Mackreath

Interview

June 2018

Basma Alsharif has never called a geographical space home. Her short video works, feature length films and lecture performances – made in Chicago, Cairo,...

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feature

December 2013

The Horror of Philosophy

Houman Harouni

feature

December 2013

An article published in this same venue opens with a grievance: ‘We lack the philosophers that we require for...

Art

June 2013

Ghosts and Relics: The Haunting Avant-Garde

John Douglas Millar

Art

June 2013

‘The avant-garde can’t be ignored, so to ignore it – as most humanist British novelists do – is the...

poetry

September 2011

The Cinematographer, a 42-year-old man named Miyagawa, aimed his camera directly at the sun, which at first probably seemed like a bad idea

Michael Earl Craig

poetry

September 2011

Last night Kurosawa’s woodcutter strode through the forest, his axe on his shoulder. Intense sunlight stabbed and sparkled and...

 

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