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ATOMIC POWER:

Autonomy and mutual help


Sabu Kohso: Radiation and Revolution
Is learning completely new ways to love people, countries and culture – only possible if we break down the state apparatus, as Sabu Kohso claims?
ARCHITECTURE:

To make the order in order


Pablo Sendra, Richard Sennett: Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City
How can we design big cities where we can be more alone together?
MEDIA:

Anyone can make news


Alessandra Renzi: Hacked Transmissions
Do the media maintain social and societal conditions, or are they a tool for change?

A truly solidary and subversive feminism – who do you work for?


Susan Ferguson: Women and Work. Feminism, Labor and Social Reproduction
I do not remember how the conversation took that turn, but I do remember in particular one of my colleagues' appalled and disbelieving reaction. It was...
EAST ASIA:

How China and Japan were integrated into today's completely unsustainable global capitalism


Mark W. Driscoll: The Whites are Enemies of Heaven. Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection
Mark W. Driscoll tells, among other things, concrete stories about drunken, arrogant, hyper-violent and rape-cultivating diplomats, missionaries and businessmen.

Our top things

ASSANGE:

Destructive criticism of Sweden


Nils Melzer: The Julian Assange Case
Bureaucratic co-criminals – this is how a new book by Nils Melzer describes Sweden's handling of Julian Assange. Swedish Stina Oscarson reviews – and is ashamed.
Stina Oscarson -
FAIRNESS:

Save Assange, save democracy


Stefania Maurizi: The Secret power: Why they want to destroy Julian Assange and WikiLeaks (Il potere segreto: Perché vogliono distruggere Julian Assange e WikiLeaks)
While the US extradition request for Assange will be processed in another court round, Assange is still fighting a battle for democracy and journalistic integrity.
Melita Zajc -
BEFORE THE TRIAL 27 OCTOBER:

Julian Assange – a goldmine and a nightmare

John Y. Jones -
Chronicle:

Anarchist, filmmaker, author and poet

Jan Erik Holst -
CHRONICLE:

Motorized winter hunting on the Hardangervidda – barbaric animal cruelty

Jenny Rolness -
The Peace Prize:

Reason in a world of lies

Nick Holdsworth -
Copenhagen Photo Festival:

Photography in a climate time

Steffen Moestrup -

COMMENTS

COMMENT
CHRONICLE:

Extreme weather, loss of topsoil, crops and possible resource disputes

The Storting election must be a climate election. How about allocating one extra percent of the national budget to climate measures in developing countries?
Andrew Kroglund -
COMMENT
CHRONICLE:

What does the Center Party, the Red Party and the Green Party really want to change?

The EEA is, for example, aviation, energy cooperation, banking cooperation, satellite navigation, medical cooperation (covid-19 and vaccine cooperation), cooperation on security in communication technology, railway package and police cooperation. What is the alternative, raisin picking in Brussels?
Halle Jørn Hanssen -
MANAGER
CLIMATE:

The three ecologies

What does the city of Siracusa have in common with the UN and a French philosopher?
Truls Lie -

MORE BOOKS

DIPLOMA: Architecture in Global Socialism. Eastern Europe,… (by Lukasz Stanek)
FREEDOM: Everyone (by Ferdinand von Schirach)
SYRIA: Syria After the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience,… (by Joseph Daher,…)
PHILOSOPHY: The Time of the Wizards. The great decade of philosophy 1919-1929. (by Wolfram Eilenberger)
JOURNALISM: The philosophy of journalism (by Steen Steensen and Harald Hornmoen)
UTØYA: Neighbors (by Anne-Britt Harsem)
PHOTOGRAPH: Where the Time Goes (by Diane Jonte-Pace and David Pace)
DEMOCRACY: The Decline and Rise of Democracy. A Global History from Antiquity to Today,… (by David Stasavage,…)
PANDEMIC: Café Europa Revisited (by Slavenka Drakulić)
ANARCHISM: The Government of No One. The Theory and Practice of Anarchism (by Ruth Kinna)
IRAN: Between the worlds. Of power and powerlessness in Iran (by Natalie Amiri)
ECOLOGY: Disasters,… (by Kristian Cedervall Lauta,…)
USA: Power,… (by John Ikenberry)
DO IT YOURSELF: The Process Genre. Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor (by Salomé Aguilera Svirsky)
MALI: France's Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa (by Nathaniel K. Powell)
RUSSIA: Shadow state. Murder,… (by Luke Harding)
FREEDOM: Wollstonecraft. Philosophy Passion and Politics (by Sylvana Tomaselli)
PHILOSOPHY: For example – examples that think (by Brian Benjamin Hansen)
Zolo Karoli (by Maria Rosvoll)
ANARCHISM: William S. Burroughs. From cut-ups to shotgun paintings (by Lars Movin)
ENVIRONMENT: The politics of hope (by Bjarke Møller)
COVID-19: Everything Must Change! The World After Covid-19 (by Renata Avila and Srećko Horvat)
PHILOSOPHY: Philosophy Ethics & Politics (by Paul Ricoeur)
TRAUMER: Susan Taubes: An Intellectual Biography (by Christina Pareigis)
NATURE: Rediscovering Earth. Ten Dialogues on the Future of Nature (by Conversations with Anders Dunker)
COVID-19: The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World (by Benjamin Bratton)
SURVEILLANCE: Surveillance Valley. The Secret Military History of the Internet (by Yasha Levine)

ESSAYS

TRAVEL ESSAY:

The invaders among us – stink bugs, king crabs, Nile perch and coronavirus

In our time of catastrophic extinction of species, you may risk overlooking the catastrophic spread of some species. As we experienced on our journey with the four-wheeled home with the beetle Halyomorpha halys – or what about the king crab in Norway?
Ranveig Eckhoff -
ESSAY:

Banished and imprisoned for his books

In addition to the world's whistleblowers, a number of writers have suffered because of what they have revealed. Jan Tystad deals with some of them here.
Jan Tystad -
911:

The power of 20 years of propaganda

Ted Walter -
DEATH:

An excommunication of the dead and death?

Alexander Carnera -
PHOTO:

What I'm talking about when I talk about pictures

Ellen Ugelstad -
RACE THEORY:

African-American thinking and critical racial studies

Dag Herbjørnsrud -

MODERN TIMES: The ecocentric human being

Orientering (50 years ago)

NATO:

At NATO's disposal

 During the NATO exercise Good Heart, the "enemy" were striking workers and named Norwegian organizations.
ORIENTERING NO. 22 1971:

The Paris Commune became a model and inspiration for socialists from Marx to the present day

: We bring here another part of Einhart Lorenz's article about the Paris Commune.

INTERVIEWER

GREEN POLICY:

"A kind of solidarity anarchism will constitute a marked showdown with the parliamentary fixation to which the left has been subject for far too long."

The leader of the Danish party Frie Grønne, Sikandar Siddique, asks MODERN TIMES: «What good is it that there is 'a good atmosphere on the train' if we all on the train are heading towards the abyss? Those of us in the North who "sit on the pig" must find their way out of the consumer hamster wheel.
MIDDLE EAST:

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is cutting international cooperation

What significance does it have that the authorities have cut cultural support to a number of Norwegian actors working internationally? For example, Kirkelig Kulturverksted i Midtøsten?
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST:

Freedom, equality and sisterhood

With topics such as forced marriage, child marriage, rape and honor killings, Professor Unni Wikan has studied people all her life, but not least – the Muslim. She has had to avoid that.

FILM (Click here for our supplement MODERN TIMES REVIEW)

911:

Do the right thing


Spike Lee: NYC EPICENTERS 911-> 2021½
Spike Lee's documentary series, which now airs on HBONordic, is a comprehensive depiction of New York – interspersed with memories, stories and insights from eyewitnesses to the city's largest terrorist attack.
DOCUMENTARY:

20 years after September 11


Dylan Avery: SEVEN
A research team in Alaska has via research and new computer-simulated models concluded that the NIST report on 11 September has been incorrect. Something for NRK?
ECO FILM:

Grief is how we feel – when a loss is a fact (watch the movie here)


Andrea Culková: Žal Žen (Grief / Sorg)
Extinction Rebellion is a fast-growing protest movement. They are in favor of transforming the love of nature and the rage over politicians' passivity into collective action. But what about the political potential of grief?
CANNES:

Continuation rather than replay


Joachim Trier: The world's worst man
With The World's Worst Man, Joachim Trier has very possibly made his best film to date. And it is more than just the capital that connects it to Reprise and Oslo, 31 August.
JULY 22ND:

The trauma story


Aslaug Holm, Sigve Endresen: Generation Utøya
Utøya as a hotbed for budding party affiliation: This generation still cannot be gagged.

DOCUMENTARY PHOTO

PHOTO BOOK:

To stick together right into the fall of life

Some photographs in this book are perceived as ruthless, despite the fact that the photography was done among friends.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER:

"I do not see beauty in war, but there is beauty in everything"

Beauty, suffering, wealth, poverty, superficiality and raped children are different sides of the same coin, says photographer Marco Di Lauro, who spent a week with the Red Cross in Bergamo during the covid-19 outbreak.
PHOTO BOOK:

"What we want to say 'yes' to."


Kajsa Gullberg: The House of Mirror
Photographer Kajsa Gullberg is a Socrates light in the sex club. The photographs from the club are blurred and reddish.

Full 100-page MODERN TIMES including the appendix Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly (March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1) with international book reviews, essays and comments – in addition to the physical newspaper and PDF, the articles are eventually published online here (see also the monthly newsletter).

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