Selçuk Balamir

interview #1

Just found out that Kevin’s interview on last year’s queer-feminist finger at Ende Gelände has been out there already! Honoured share a platform with my press-heroine Lindgaard Jade, and embarrassed of mansplaining eco-feminism on Transition Network —please challenge and correct me if I say anything unbearably foolish!

If we can create spaces of visibility for our intersected struggles within our movement, we create this almost fractal movement where at each scale you reproduce the multiplicity, diversity and therefore the strength of our movement.

interview #2

Equally excited to share my first ever Mexican publication! Spanish speakers who’ve been wondering what my thesis is about, here’s a tasty conversation about design, politics and ecology. Thank you Aditi for connecting me with Emerge MX!

haremos lo que amamos,
amaremos lo que compartimos,
y compartiremos lo que hacemos

interview #3

And this one in Bir+Bir Forum comes for my Turkish-speaking friends! I got the chance to tell eeeeeverything about #NieuwLand and our new future postcapitalist urban commune project —and nobody else than my wickedly brilliant colleague Aylin Kuryel could make it both an entertaining and informative interview!

Neoliberal saldırı döneminde ‘topyekûn kopuş’ yaklaşımının sürdürülebilir devrimci bir strateji olduğundan şüphe duymalıyız. Sisteme entegre olmanın zıddı kendini soyutlamak değil, oyunun kurallarını bozmak olmalı.

interview #4

I’m grateful to be quoted in a deeply reflective and vastly strategic piece by Aaron Vansintjan, featured on Never Apart! He lucidly and elegantly brings together the heritage of Situationist aesthetics and creativity, with the mass disobedient action tactics of the climate justice movement.

either we see these tactics in small scale and only occasionally succeed in disrupting anything, or we have to try to scale up our ambitions. Low-key propaganda is one thing, but our goals are of creating a political crisis on climate.” We could, instead, call it ‘economy jamming’.