Operación Ogro (Operation Ogre) was the codename for ETA’s plan to assasinate Luis Carrero Blanco, the prime minister of Spain in 1973. Blanco was selected as a successor of Francesco Franco who came to power after a 1936 coup d'état and was responsible for tens of thousands killed and tortured. As the bombing happened two years before Franco’s death, it could have both contributed to Spain’s transformation towards electoral democracy as well as started a spiral of violence between ETA and the state…

Alejandro Jodorowsky takes every form of religion and mysticism and puts it into symbolic imagery, that turns into a two hour mind trip, drawing its inspirations from Christian Iconology, Tarot, Latin American History, futurism, mysticism, politics, astrology in a combination to strange images that correlate together into a difficult to decipher theme.

The Holy Mountain gives an omniscient view of what social engineering caused by greed has done to the modern world, but shows us how to live and not give in to a material world. 

When the Zapatista National Liberation Army took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico the 1st of January of 1993, the government deployed its troops and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle.

But Comandante Marcos knew how to play the political game by using the media circus to his advantage, using the Internet too, where the Zapatistas were able to communicate their revolutionary ideas to the world.

Since then, the community has resisted and they keep their autonomy till today.

The Young Karl Marx is a 2017 movie directed by Raoul Peck. The movie depicts the early years of Marx’s political involvement including exile in Paris, Brussels and London, friendship with Friedrich Engels, relationship with Jenny von Westphalen or transforming the League of the Just into the Communist League.

Raoul Peck is a Haitian film maker and politician known for historical—political movies. He also directed the movie Lumumba screened at the end of July.

The event is in English, a discussion will follow after the screening as always.

Film screening and discussion. The event is in English.

Following the same format of it's prequel 'The Pervert's Guide to Cinema', this movie takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide, Slavoj Zizek this time puts the emphasis on ideology itself. Through psychoanalysis Zizek explores "the mechanisms that shape what we believe and how we behave".

Film screening and discussion. The event is in English.

This movie with Zizek himself as presenter, delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves. Whether he is untangling the famously baffling films of David Lynch, or overturning everything you thought you knew about Hitchcock, Zizek illuminates the screen with his passion, intellect, and unfailing sense of humour.

Film screening and discussion. The event is in English.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, former prime minister of the Republic of the Congo.

Film screening and discussion. The event is in English.

A debate between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault about the human nature happened in
1971 at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

As references to the human nature are frequently used by both defenders and opponents of
various political and economic systems, the question of human nature is still very relevant.
But is there even such thing as an innate human nature, free of external influences?

LINK TO THE VIRTUAL ROOM DOWN.

Critical Readings book reading club continues discussing a new book: Return to Reims by Didier Eribon (2009)

This group's aim is to set up a safe space for the (self-)reflexion of masculinity in our society and the consequences in the oppression of woman, man themselves, or anyone. This exercise seeks to highlight toxic behaviour of men, which has been idolized by our patriarchal society through history.