According to Alfie Bown, a Hong Kong-based theoretician of popular culture, video games carry hidden messages with which we identify inadvertently - unless we reflect on them rationally. Is the use of computational mechanisms that change the very essence of what gives us pleasure a historically …

The project of the gigantic dam Pěčín in the nature conservation area in Orlické hory can  demonstrate the influence of building investors in the Czech Republic on the government. The government then decide to the disadvantage of the environment, but also the people.

Czech government …

Two recent court decisions that concern the (post)autonomous left are worth paying attention to, even if only one of them is worth welcoming. After two and half years, on Friday, September 22, the Prague city court pronounced an acquittal, which is not legally effective yet, and according to …

We asked graphic and typography designer, as well as singer and guitar player of the worldwide-known black metal group Master’s Hammer about his inspirations, who is the top of today’s Czech typography and how he perceives the utilization of his scripts. We also talked about …

Summer is the usual season for traveling abroad. Traffic jams, lines at the airport, streets full of hundreds of thousands of people battling the heat and rushing from a sight to another. In some tourist destination such a collective ritual of the European middle class incites more and more …

After several years, the Czech Republic experienced another nonviolent direct action. It was the culmination of the activist Klimakemp that took place in Horní Jiřetín and brought attention to unsustainability of coal mining in the time of growing climate changes. More than one hundred activists …

We hear about the women in Syrian Rojava rather stereotypically, mainly in connection to their military involvement against the Islamists. But women also enjoy strong presence in the local autonomy. What does the Kurdish feminism look like and how does it reflect the gender theory of the imprisoned …

In the Czech Republic, research into LSD and its possible utilization in psychiatry has a long, if interrupted, history. Probably the most renowned researcher was Milan Hausner whose book on clinical application of LSD behind the iron wall makes clear that there cannot be a doubt about the …

What lesson can we take away from the anti-immigrant wave of the past two years? Eva Svobodová has researched Islamophobic demonstrations. Ondřej Slačálek has analyzed the statements of their leaders. In a jointly-written retrospective essay they note the most significant features. 

The unscrupulous political attack at the Central European University (CEU), located in Budapest, can gain Viktor Orbán part of the votes of the extreme right party Jobbik. It is equally likely that this case is not solely about elimination of the nest of critical thinking but also about lucrative …