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5/ Surrealism Against Fascism
Naomi Klein
26.11.2025Essay
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
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Naomi Klein
26.11.2025Essay
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
5/ Surrealism Against Fascism
Naomi Klein
26.11.2025Essay
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Naomi Klein
26.11.2025Essay
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
@naomiaklein.bsky.social: ”Where the Surrealists made irreverent and untameable art, the fascists sought a world of perfect symmetry. While the Surrealists embraced the frailties and mysteries of the human body, the fascists waged war on deviance.’’ www.equator.org/articles/sur...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
@naomiaklein.bsky.social: ”Where the Surrealists made irreverent and untameable art, the fascists sought a world of perfect symmetry. While the Surrealists embraced the frailties and mysteries of the human body, the fascists waged war on deviance.’’ www.equator.org/articles/sur...
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"...when we see images of floods in Bengal, what we are looking at is not just the result of weather events: it is also the product of a project of terraforming that began in colonial times and has continued until the present day"
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Beyond the Apocalypse • EQUATOR
How visions of catastrophe shape the ‘climate solutions’ imposed by aid agencies
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November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"...when we see images of floods in Bengal, what we are looking at is not just the result of weather events: it is also the product of a project of terraforming that began in colonial times and has continued until the present day"
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Naomi Klein looks to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism. They were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to “pessimism all along the line”, and wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change.
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Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Naomi Klein looks to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism. They were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to “pessimism all along the line”, and wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change.
www.equator.org/articles/sur... @equatormag.bsky.social
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Beautiful piece by @amitav.bsky.social
“climate solutions that do not make adequate provision for the inherent uncertainties of modelling, or for the wishes, hopes and aspirations of people on the ground, will always run the risk of causing anticipatory ruination.”
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“climate solutions that do not make adequate provision for the inherent uncertainties of modelling, or for the wishes, hopes and aspirations of people on the ground, will always run the risk of causing anticipatory ruination.”
www.equator.org/articles/bey...
Beyond the Apocalypse • EQUATOR
How visions of catastrophe shape the ‘climate solutions’ imposed by aid agencies
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November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Beautiful piece by @amitav.bsky.social
“climate solutions that do not make adequate provision for the inherent uncertainties of modelling, or for the wishes, hopes and aspirations of people on the ground, will always run the risk of causing anticipatory ruination.”
www.equator.org/articles/bey...
“climate solutions that do not make adequate provision for the inherent uncertainties of modelling, or for the wishes, hopes and aspirations of people on the ground, will always run the risk of causing anticipatory ruination.”
www.equator.org/articles/bey...
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Surrealism Against Fascism www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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“The Surrealists were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to ‘pessimism all along the line,’ and nonetheless wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change,” @naomiaklein.bsky.social writes www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“The Surrealists were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to ‘pessimism all along the line,’ and nonetheless wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change,” @naomiaklein.bsky.social writes www.equator.org/articles/sur...
@naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists confronted the horrors of the First World War – and why their work speaks to us today: ”Evisceration was as real and material for many of these young artists as their evident desire to burn it all down.”
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November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists confronted the horrors of the First World War – and why their work speaks to us today: ”Evisceration was as real and material for many of these young artists as their evident desire to burn it all down.”
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“Israel’s strategy of deliberate starvation, alongside the daily demolitions, meant that “the government is rushing to erase Gaza”.
New @equatormag.bsky.social: @naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists transformed the wreckage of history into revolutionary art – and what their example can teach us about the fight against fascism today www.equator.org/articles/sur...
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Israel’s strategy of deliberate starvation, alongside the daily demolitions, meant that “the government is rushing to erase Gaza”.
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Revolutionary ghosts are always helpful.
So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism.
Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning...
Enjoy!
So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism.
Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning...
Enjoy!
New @equatormag.bsky.social: @naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists transformed the wreckage of history into revolutionary art – and what their example can teach us about the fight against fascism today www.equator.org/articles/sur...
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Revolutionary ghosts are always helpful.
So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism.
Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning...
Enjoy!
So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism.
Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning...
Enjoy!
New @equatormag.bsky.social: @naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists transformed the wreckage of history into revolutionary art – and what their example can teach us about the fight against fascism today www.equator.org/articles/sur...
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New @equatormag.bsky.social: @naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists transformed the wreckage of history into revolutionary art – and what their example can teach us about the fight against fascism today www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Hisham Matar on Titian: ”He understood painting as neither an instrument nor an instruction, but rather, like love or grief, as one’s fate, and in the way, ironically, that Aristotle himself understood that word: one’s immersive and inescapable destiny.” www.equator.org/articles/pit...
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Hisham Matar on Titian: ”He understood painting as neither an instrument nor an instruction, but rather, like love or grief, as one’s fate, and in the way, ironically, that Aristotle himself understood that word: one’s immersive and inescapable destiny.” www.equator.org/articles/pit...
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This is a powerful, insightful, and sad piece. I strongly recommend reading it.
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We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves • EQUATOR
How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide
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November 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
This is a powerful, insightful, and sad piece. I strongly recommend reading it.
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Take time to read Soyonbo Borjigin's personal essay on his career as a journalist in Inner Mongolia.
Reads like a Murakami novel. Intimate and fluent in detailing the cultural, the political and everything else in the liminal.
#mongolsky
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Reads like a Murakami novel. Intimate and fluent in detailing the cultural, the political and everything else in the liminal.
#mongolsky
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The Xi Jinping School of Journalism • EQUATOR
The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter
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November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Take time to read Soyonbo Borjigin's personal essay on his career as a journalist in Inner Mongolia.
Reads like a Murakami novel. Intimate and fluent in detailing the cultural, the political and everything else in the liminal.
#mongolsky
www.equator.org/articles/the...
Reads like a Murakami novel. Intimate and fluent in detailing the cultural, the political and everything else in the liminal.
#mongolsky
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I Left My Sorrows in the Laundry Basin by Haidar Al-Ghazali, a Palestinian poet from Gaza. Translated from Arabic by Omar Berrada in @equatormag.bsky.social.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I Left My Sorrows in the Laundry Basin by Haidar Al-Ghazali, a Palestinian poet from Gaza. Translated from Arabic by Omar Berrada in @equatormag.bsky.social.
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Amazing piece www.equator.org/articles/we-...
We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves • EQUATOR
How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide
www.equator.org
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Amazing piece www.equator.org/articles/we-...
Hisham Matar on a Renaissance master: Diana and Actaeon ... records the moment Actaeon startles Diana and her nymphs, sealing his fate. His shadow falls on the scene, as though Titian is suggesting that, innocent or not, the act of looking implicates the viewer. www.equator.org/articles/pit...
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Hisham Matar on a Renaissance master: Diana and Actaeon ... records the moment Actaeon startles Diana and her nymphs, sealing his fate. His shadow falls on the scene, as though Titian is suggesting that, innocent or not, the act of looking implicates the viewer. www.equator.org/articles/pit...
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"The BBC exhibits symptoms of the West’s wider moral breakdown over Gaza – the failure even to name genocide, let alone stop it, when a Western ally is the perpetrator"
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"For a section of Britain’s political class...support for Israel is not merely a matter of expedience; it is a gauge by which allegiance to Britishness itself is measured, because it sees Israel as the West’s outpost in a savage neighbourhood"
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Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
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November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"The BBC exhibits symptoms of the West’s wider moral breakdown over Gaza – the failure even to name genocide, let alone stop it, when a Western ally is the perpetrator"
@trillingual.bsky.social @equatormag.bsky.social
@trillingual.bsky.social @equatormag.bsky.social
Hisham Matar revisits the notorious photographs of torture from Abu Ghraib, to ask what they might reveal about the nature – and limits – of American power www.equator.org/articles/pit...
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Hisham Matar revisits the notorious photographs of torture from Abu Ghraib, to ask what they might reveal about the nature – and limits – of American power www.equator.org/articles/pit...
[email protected] on what really went wrong at the BBC: “Just as Gaza has proved to be a place where the failings of Western political institutions are exposed, the BBC has itself come unstuck.”
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
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November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
[email protected] on what really went wrong at the BBC: “Just as Gaza has proved to be a place where the failings of Western political institutions are exposed, the BBC has itself come unstuck.”
We live in a world inundated by images of atrocity. What might these pictures reveal about the perpetrators of violence? Hisham Matar reflects on this question with help from Ovid and Titian. www.equator.org/articles/pit...
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We live in a world inundated by images of atrocity. What might these pictures reveal about the perpetrators of violence? Hisham Matar reflects on this question with help from Ovid and Titian. www.equator.org/articles/pit...
New @equatormag.bsky.social – Hisham Matar reflects on depictions of atrocities, from Titian and Ovid to Abu Ghraib and Gaza
Pity and Fear • EQUATOR
What images of cruelty reveal about the limits of power
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November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New @equatormag.bsky.social – Hisham Matar reflects on depictions of atrocities, from Titian and Ovid to Abu Ghraib and Gaza
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“The notion of anticipatory ruination has implications that extend far beyond Bangladesh: in a sense, it has become a plan for the future of the entire planet.”
Beyond the Apocalypse - @equatormag.bsky.social
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Beyond the Apocalypse - @equatormag.bsky.social
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Beyond the Apocalypse • EQUATOR
How visions of catastrophe shape the ‘climate solutions’ imposed by aid agencies
www.equator.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“The notion of anticipatory ruination has implications that extend far beyond Bangladesh: in a sense, it has become a plan for the future of the entire planet.”
Beyond the Apocalypse - @equatormag.bsky.social
www.equator.org/articles/bey...
Beyond the Apocalypse - @equatormag.bsky.social
www.equator.org/articles/bey...
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Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
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November 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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If you want to understand how Xi Jinping’s “soul-casting” [铸魂] project works in practice, read this searing account of one journalist’s journey through—and resistance to—the Xi Jinping School of Journalism: www.equator.org/articles/the... #SouthernMongolia #SoyomboBorjigin @equator.org
The Xi Jinping School of Journalism • EQUATOR
The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter
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November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
If you want to understand how Xi Jinping’s “soul-casting” [铸魂] project works in practice, read this searing account of one journalist’s journey through—and resistance to—the Xi Jinping School of Journalism: www.equator.org/articles/the... #SouthernMongolia #SoyomboBorjigin @equator.org