These giga platforms
FACEBOOK: Where is the limit of social media use of freedom of expression if they deliberately ignore systematic and global abuses in the form of hate speech and undemocratic methods such as fake news and hate speech?
"Why do you read so much?"
PHOTO: We do not need bookstores just to buy books… Photographer Horst Friedrichs has photographed places that are filled with books.
Child soldiers and child terrorists
ICE: We can not immediately compare the children from Islamic State with child soldiers, analyzes American terrorist researcher. Many of them no longer consider themselves children. Turning the time back to becoming regular school students again therefore seems almost impossible.
A place everyone wants to see, but no one wants to protect
VENICE: The high tide in Venice – up to 1,87 meters – is man-made, just as the large technical river barriers are described as a giant scam.
Sartre in the center of a new tribunal
JEAN PAUL SARTRE: In this article, Vladimir Dedijer describes how French society is becoming increasingly authoritarian. Basic freedoms are set aside, the National Assembly is powerless and the police have free rein to carry out the purest terror against people with opinions that deviate from the official ones. Torture and stinking prison cells are also part of the image of France in 1971.
5G and health effects
RADIATION: Organizations and professional networks with close ties to the telecom and defense industries, in practice, determine Norwegian limit values today.
Dirty power
CHRONICLE: The new AMS electricity meters pollute the electricity grid in the house with more "dirty electricity" than old meters.
About mourning or insulting the dead
MEMORIES: When we draw unfinished memorial pictures that suit us, we offend the dead.
The ideological turmoil of Marxism-Leninism
ORIENTERING: The basis of Marxism-Leninism, Norwegian edition by Ny Dag 1962.
Ørestaden, Nordhavn, Amager Strandpark, Sluseholm, Lynetteholm
COPENHAGEN: Have you been so busy turning the city of the unemployed into a well-paid taxpayer town that you overlooked that those with ordinary jobs could not afford to live in the new neighborhoods?
The colorful Indian microcosm
TRAVEL ESSAY: In search of a self away from the corona pandemic. In India, the western structure is turned upside down. Instead of crying for food and clean water, the homeless masses sing mantras and throw flowers to their idols to forget the hungry…
The capitalist world of images
PHOTO: Is it possible that anti-capitalist expressions are reduced to insignificant gestures and instead become symbols of the immediate consumption of social media?
ITALY: a strange and surreal case of subtle surrender
PHOTO: Is Italy Europe's most extraordinary and ordinary country? Maria Vittora Trovato takes pictures of its shadow pages.
The marketization of China's economy
CHINA: On the edge of the republic, the cultural revolution and market capitalism: Beijing from Below provides a unique insight into China of today – through life stories belonging to the urban people who have not found a place in either official history or official economic progress.
China's urban development
CITY PLANNING: The eco-city is part of the innovation in China. From block, super block to mega block and eco block? Here we get an analysis of the years after Deng Xiaoping's "reform and openness policy".
If Skinner had been alive today, he would have worked for Facebook
FASCISM: The complex consequences of fascism spread through false news, attacks on privacy, mass surveillance and disintegrating democracies. People manipulate ideas and influence the attention economy – helped by dopamine. ws book is scary, yet necessary about the world we live in.
The hangover of colonialism
AFRICA: What is civilization, what is belonging, how much can a human being endure, and who are the wild, the heartless?
A shaky diagnosis of a disillusioned youth
DIAGNOSIS: Does hope lead to disappointment and desperation to terror? With Alain Bertho, we can talk about a presentism, ie a lasting present, without past or future.
The legacy of Ruth Maier
ANTI-SEMITISM: Elsa Kvamme's new documentary No more everyday life tells the story of Jewish Ruth Maier, who in no way has lost its relevance and importance.
Vaccination queue and side effects
CHRONICLE: What do we actually know about something as vital as the serious side effects of Covid vaccines?
In the hands of the state?
CAPTURE: Who has the right to move "freely" on the digital highways, and who is waved to the side by the police or the state intelligence service because their data profile appears on the radar?
Skin braiding of the tale of modern slavery
THE RESCUE INDUSTRY: It is not only the others who are being exploited. Politicians, trade unionists and philanthropists are falling over each other in the fight against modern slavery.
Why this photo book?
BUENOS AIRES: The city has an intensity on every street corner that seduces even the most hurried visitor. Does the book disappoint for its stereotypical and mediocre photographs?
Losing a life witness
DEATH: Can one grieve over a person who turned 97 years old? Grief can be deeply selfish and liberating collective. But grief can also create communities in the love of the deceased.
The increasingly extensive brutality of the police
VIOLENCE: "Security" is a highly profitable industry in which large French private arms manufacturers are increasingly developing and selling security technologies – stun guns, tear gas, water cannons, lightning grenades and drones. Two new books look at French police violence and brutality.