What happened to the children's right to privacy?
"SHARE THINGS" : Parents share a snapshot of photos and information about their children in social media without considering the long-term consequences, and without the children's consent. [Sharenthood by Leah Plunkett]
The world is out of step
ESSAY: The world has gone completely off the hook and has been doing it for a long time.
When Sweden was deceived
ENEMY IMAGES: What do we really know about hidden activities, power games and secret submarine operations in Swedish waters? [The Swedish submarine war by Ola Tunander]
2050: Earth is our wisest teacher
SCENARIO: Imagine, this is the year 2050, and we look back at the origin and evolution of the coronavirus pandemic over the past three decades: both the plagues of pandemics, flooded cities, burned forests, drought and other rising violent climate disasters. We offer the following scenario for such a prospect from the future.
Thomas Piketty does not settle for a crisis of capitalism
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM: Piketty's latest book is about redistribution and not so much else. There is an awful lot of statistics and some fine literary examples. The hope of green capitalism seems to have completely disappeared. [Capital and ideology by Thomas Piketty, translators Peer Bundgaard, Manni Crone, Adam Diderichsen and Niels Ivar Larsen]
Open and critical about the work of the CIA
UNDERCOVER: CIA agent Amaryllis Fox developed algorithms that predict terrorism, and tells about the CIA's working methods in its startling and exciting biography. [Life Undercover by Amaryllis Fox]
A sustainable labor movement
OTHER WORLDS? Heavier by the marketing of society and the alienation of man, the question now is: Who constitutes subject one in the struggle for another world? [The Fight for the Workers by Margit Bech Vilstrup]
The nature of man's blind zone
A GOOD NATURE? In the philosopher Arne Johan Vetlesen's new book, the environmental problems are a symptom that our way of thinking is completely wrong. Maybe we should open ourselves up to everything around us being the soul? [Cosmologies of the Anthropocene by Arne-Johan Vetlesen Routledge]
The neglected and aging
PHOTO - GRAN CANARIA: The purpose of the book Getaway has been to investigate the Westerner when he or she "enjoys, dreams, escapes and recovers". [Getaway by Photos of Jantzen, Larsen, Jakobsen, Caspersen, Kristoffersen]
The road to true anarchism
Agamben: The archeology of religion, art, politics and capitalism is not a search for any kind of origin - but a search for a foundation that raises past notions with the root. [Creation and Anarchy by Giorgio Agamben]
Italy's fifth mafia
HUMAN TRAFFICKING: The Nigerian mafia is smuggling both people and drugs. Threats, violence and voodoo rituals are used to force girls into prostitution. [Ascia nera by Leonardo Palmisano]
Worthy and unworthy lives
SIMILARITY: In The Force of Nonviolence, Judith Butler writes that systematic discrimination is the main cause of all violence. [The Force of Nonviolence by Judith Butler]
Only ordinary people
EASTERN EUROPE: Thomas Ubbesen and his wife have written a human-like account of the people who lived on the right side of the wall. [We were the people by Thomas Ubbesen]
The pandemic will create a new world order
INTERVIEW: According to activist and historian Mike Davis, wild reservoirs, like bats, contain up to 400 types of coronavirus that are just waiting to spread to other animals and humans.
The love that conquered social democracy
INTERVIEW: German author Renate Feyl uses a historical, noble divorce case in her latest novel.
When viruses go viral
INFODEMI: A study of the corona virus, conspiracy theories and fake news in the disinformation ecosystem.
Permanent state of emergency?
KORONA: Are the European authorities truthful about how long the measures will last? Because you can't lock up a population for 12-18 months before a vaccine is developed?
In the time of the corona: Tourists and roommates
TOURIST OR REFUGEE? It is first and foremost the role of "tourist" that we experience the rigorous Korona initiatives. For the roaming danger there are small changes. Can a crisis also revitalize solidarity?
The mask game in Congo
POLICY: Halle Jørn Hanssen is based on this contribution in his contribution to the new anthology The mask game in Congo - about the campaign for the release of Tjostolv Moland and Joshua French.
Corona night
PROSA POETRY: What are our thoughts, where are we, or any of us, under the danger of epidemics Corona Virus?
MODERN TIMES: Quarterly magazine next!
It was time to settle, now in our sixth year for today's MODERN TIMES. Not only is the world changing with a pandemic (see otherwise in the newspaper), but the public has also changed dramatically over the past decade.
The joiner Joe Biden calms down
THE LID CANDIDATE: The past catches up with presidential candidate Joe Biden, who strives to refute and belittle what the media calls "lies and spin-offs."
Immigration as a means of payment for the sins of the West
TIME OF SETTLEMENT: Why should migrants "respect our borders"? The West never respected theirs. Immigration quotas should be based on how much the West has destroyed other countries.
Digital climate impact
climate crisis: We are on our way into a crisis that is due to over-exploitation of resources, polluting and power-intensive production as well as an overriding market power.
Goodbye to the film reels
CAPTURE: Cinema Futures is both a poetic farewell with a medium on the way out and a complex analysis of the many sides of the digital revolution.
Sensible Arabic film-painting
WOMEN: A sensual and strong relationship between women without a touch of Hollywood feel.
Technology for good and for bad
TECHNOLOGY: During the Sundance film festival and at the Berlin, several films with technology were shown as a central part of the action. What does technology do with us?
Ground Fascism
ANTI-SEMITISM: Although depicting an alternate history of the United States during World War II, The Plot Against America paints a frighteningly realistic picture of how fascist ideology can unfold in practice.
Arms exports: A shameful political theater
WAR INDUSTRY:When the oil age is over, we can survive war - if we turn right. Drama series Made in Norway raises ethical issues for the Norwegian arms industry.
Saudi women's struggle mediated with soap aesthetics
CLOSED SOCIETY: The fight for equality and justice in a gender-divided everyday life is the theme of al-Mansour's fourth feature film Maryam, an "adult version" of the first movie Wadjda.
Jesus from Instagram
RELIGION: The Netflix series Messiah asks the fascinating question of how Jesus - or someone who appears to be him - would be received today.
South African identity
PHOTO: South African photographer Santu Mofokeng recently died at the age of 63. His image essays from the time during and after apartheid, however, live on.
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