Let’s Be Mad:

Mad World

In recent years, the world seems to have gone mad. A sense of unreality is increasing, between the lies of our leaders, the misinformation, and the myriad forms of violence and nonsense that fill our daily lives. The landscape we observe on social media appears increasingly chaotic and anxiety-inducing. Gaza is the height of destructive madness: watching genocide unfold on our screens, while media propaganda denies its reality. But is it true madness we are facing? Is it truly unreal, absurd? Or are we not rather following a colonial, patriarchal agenda, pushed to its limits?

The reason of the unreasonable

To understand the madness we feel, we must return to the notion of “rationality.” The real problem is

In Conversation:
Claire Touzard
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Essays
Topics:
Global South Renaissance
From EIP #9