Food is never just about food
FOOD GLOBALIZATION: When goods are constantly crossing borders. What the corona pandemic can teach us about ourselves and the world we live in. [Eating the Empire by Troy Bickham]
The drop that causes the cup to overflow
resurrection: The three books are equal parts revolutionary manifestos for those who want an analysis of the state of affairs, and strategic manuals for those who have already taken to the streets and revolted. [From now by Author of the Invisible Committee]
The experience of the world
dystopic: Who is locked inside without knowing it, who is outside in the open? Who is free to ask the important questions? [The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri]
HUXLEY'S DYSTOPIA: What would you rather be - happy or free?
SCIENCE FICTION: The TV series based on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World contains - by including digital surveillance - also an essential element from George Orwell's dystopian vision of the future. [Brave New World by Series Creators: Grant Morrison, Brian Taylor, David Wiener]
Freedom, dignity and hope
GAZA: MODERN TIMES meets different voices in Gaza today: About America's new plan, and conditions on the ground.
The creation of the academy in Ramallah
THE ARTISTS: In the occupied West Bank, art became a form of knowledge based on research and free critical thinking. One of the founders of the art academy in Ramallah, tells here what happened - supported by Norway.
- We documented that we had everything in place for a Palestinian state
INTERVIEW: Salam Fayyad, former Prime Minister of Palestine, Ramallah 2014
The eerie valley on the west coast of the United States
TECH-Arbejder: Anna Wiener was seduced by Silicon Valley's future promises and tried to suppress her resistance impulses until it all one day became too meaningless. [Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener]
The question of technique
A manifesto for democracy and human rights
REBEL: Joshua Wong started a protest movement against Chinese authorities, but refused to stand for election in Hong Kong. [Unfree Speech by Joshua Wong and Jason Y]
The age of panic
KATE stanza: We humans have lost control of the development we have set in motion. The disaster is a warning that comes too late, and the elites make themselves susceptible to the danger signals. Can we avoid panicky escape from the common problems? [How Everything Can Collapse / Infinite Mobilization by Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens, Peter Sloterdijk]
The void after father
Fathers missed: Sibylle Lacan, daughter of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, tells of a sore father relationship in this short but strong memoir. [A Father (2019) by Sibylle Lacan Translated by Adrian Nathan West]
The poet and thinker are individually orchids
cultural history: Celan wanted Heidegger to apologize for supporting Adolf Hitler. With such thinkers, how can they contribute to a society at par with human potential? [Totnauberg by Hans-Peter Kunisch]
A future Palestinian state can only be sustainable if it has a good relationship with Israel
INTERVIEW Espen Barth Eide, former Foreign Minister, Jerusalem (2013)
South America's upcoming technology showdown
CAPTURE: The authorities in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico are now investing in start-ups, incubators and training programs. But at the same time, Colombia can confiscate protesters' phones; in Ecuador, the authorities block the same access to servers; and in Nicaragua and Venezuela, governments have routinely restricted access to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The United States and China are on aggressive courtship trips to countries throughout the region.
Brave soldiers and lost system criticism
cinema Relevant The Outpost confirms the turn American war films have taken from system criticism of the hero cult.
A voice from Poland
ESSAY: It is embarrassing to look at how horrible the Law and Justice Party (PiS) and the government are behaving. We sign signature campaigns.
Behind the idyll lurks the landmines
WASTES OF WAR: Five female miners try to remove land mines in the beautiful landscape of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Palestine in our century
LEADER: The Palestine magazine of our century has both a current and historical perspective on the # Middle East # long nuclear conflict about Palestine. Although it is well known, it is often lacking in detailed knowledge.
Trojan horses for Chinese intelligence?
HUAWEI: The United States is as believing as China in using national technology as a means of mass surveillance and political manipulation.
"You are my creator, but I am your lord - obey!"
FRANKENSTEIN: About killing drones, artificial intelligence and Frankenstein. It has become easier to fight - and more dangerous. If, or when, the machines themselves take over, humanity may suddenly be on the wrong side of the table.
Libra Facebooks
Krypto: The time when bank payments across national borders took five days is not yet over. But it does not cost five percent of the transaction anymore. But what about those without a bank account? Libra is driving development
Strong hostage drama from reality
DANISH IS-CATCH: The feature film about Danish Daniel Rye captured by IS in Syria shows that Scandinavian film does not have to be toothless entertainment to hit wide.
The limits of the genuine
TOURISM AND AUTHENTICITY: The distinctive feature film Bait describes the conflict between local fishermen and holidaymakers in Cornwall and is a social realist drama portrayed in a strikingly small social realist way.
To escape the ultra-Orthodox lifestyle
Thoughtful story of a young girl leaving a Hasidic society for a better life outside.
The omniscient but predetermined man
FREE WILL: Masterfully, the miniseries ask Dev's big questions about a deterministic worldview versus free will, and the almost unlimited power of modern "tech" companies.
Short film program about the Y-block and the vulnerability of architecture
ARCHITECTURE: Two films about the Y-block have, in the shelter of the ongoing demolition, become both documentation of ideological oscillations and mourning hymns over a lost time.
Warning of the future
Utopia: An essayistic documentary that stretches towards future visions and utopias, but with a bleak foundational tone and inability to see any way out of the paralysis it describes.
Attentive and timeless presence
SLOW TRAVEL: Animals often have an almost enviable ability to find their place in the whole. Why can't people do the same?
False priest listens to true testimony
DIFFICULT ASKED: In Thy Kingdom Come, photographer and filmmaker Eugene Richards gives voice to ordinary people who are largely invisible in today's United States.
Michael Moore's new film: Critical to alternative energy
ENVIRONMENT: For many, green energy solutions are just a new way to make money, says director Jeff Gibbs.
"What we want to say 'yes' to."
BOOK: Photographer Kajsa Gullberg is a Socrates light in the sex club. The photographs from the club are blurred and reddish.
