Theater of Cruelty

Niels Johan Juhl-Nielsen

Juhl-Nielsen resides in Copenhagen.
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The iron grip of power on the population

CAPITALISM: The economic sphere, just like the political sphere, is a set of social relations within the domination system – something the author Søren Mau addresses.
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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?
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Will-to-not-want-to-know

ECOLOGY: Will we succumb to the temptation to want ignorance? The eco-revolution must either be global or it is nothing.
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Europe as a green superpower?

ENVIRONMENT: As a political project, the nations of Europe have failed to find common ground. Can the local and regional based on several "pacts" form the framework for a perspective – which will contribute to the development of a new paradigm?
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"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."

GREEN POLICY: 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.
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A cathedral thinking – for the future

ENVIRONMENT: We are on a collision course with both natural and social capital, globally, what former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called a global suicide pact. Well, we have to build a new future stone by stone – knowing that we will not see the result ourselves.
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A proposal for increased democracy, called «pluralist socialism»

ECONOMY: Dragsted has a number of suggestions for how employees can get a larger share of the «community cake» – e.g. by shutting them into the corporate executive rooms.
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The protest against the elites, against the government, against the bureaucracy and the representative democracy

3 BOOKS ON ECOLOGY: From the Yellow Vests came new forms of organization within production, housing and consumption functions. And with "Degrowth", starting with very simple actions such as protection of water, air and soil. And what about the local?
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Climate change: More severe than coronavirus

CLIMATE: The opening film at Copenhagen DOX: the young people influenced the climate choices of politics, but Ida Auken is the film's most important focal point.
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