A solitary drummer in a Jamaican interior, where rhythm carries memory, resistance, and the unfinished struggle against Babylon

Beyond Bob Marley: the sound of resistance

How reggae became a global language of decolonization, memory, and revolt

Hakim Ikhlef
29 Junr 2026

The world of reggae: beyond Bob Marley Bob Marley’s world—the one that matters—was never about comfort. It was a world of resistance, return, and the radical imagination—where chant is constitution, the drum is memory, and dance is the first act of freed movement. Going beyond Bob Marley points to restoring the genuine and authentic meaning of reggae in its original context. It enables us to place it back in its historical dimension of sonic and poetic insurgency, exploring the global context of decolonization and Third Worldism in revolutionary times—even if the 60s and 70s attempts failed irremediably.

Isaac Asimov’s 'History of the Future'

 

A symbolic still life of Asimov’s legacy, where worn volumes meet futuristic visions of robots and galaxies

Isaac Asimov’s 'History of the Future'

Ethics, psychohistory, and the making of humanity’s tomorrow

29 JANUARY 2026, 

HAKIM IKHLEF

Throughout his œuvre, Isaac Asimov has framed the concept of future history (or history of the future). In fact, most of his stories are not stand-alone narratives but part of imaginary events situated over a plurimillenary time span and organised in three main cycles. Each cycle is part of a series of novels. Thus, there is the cycle of robots, that of the galactic empire, and that of the Foundation. Some more or less stand-alone novels were written as an interlude between the end of the robot cycle and the beginning of the galactic empire.

 

An elderly scholar reads intently beside a towering robot, set against a backdrop where a decaying city meets a futuristic skyline, symbolizing the tension between history, human agency, and technological destiny

Asimov’s psychohistory between determinism and freedom

Asimov’s “Foundation” saga explores how history balances destiny and human freedom while testing the power of science to shape the future

28 FEBRUARY 2026, 

HAKIM IKHLEF

Using psychohistory, Seldon mathematically proves that the Empire, despite its apparent strength, is doomed to collapse into a 30,000-year dark age. In the beginning of the Foundation books, Seldon works to shorten this dark age. He gets to the idea of creating a foundation at the edges of the galaxy. With the help of Eto Demerzel pulling the strings backstage, what is dubbed the Seldon Project takes shape, and a small community is sent to a distant, peripheral world to realise the apparent aim of the foundation.