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Context: Writer Amitav Ghosh sees the ecological disaster the world is facing as being rooted in the past. Photo: Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images
AMITAV GHOSH

Amitav Ghosh: Writing the planetary crisis

Indian author Amitav Ghosh speaks about his work and its relationship with climate change

  • Alf Gunvald Nilsen
7 min read
“What rises in Container is the dead. And their memory. And an urgent demand for, as Singh argues, not so much a return to the past, but a reckoning with its repression in the present.” (Photo: Michael Klein)
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Review: Ghosts that cannot be contained

The short film Container, which straddles virtual reality and fine art installation, provides a visceral re-examination of both historical and late capitalism

  • Niren Tolsi
6 min read