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Information!

Cass R. Sunstein: Too Much Information
KNOWLEDGE: What should we trust? How should we use the information we receive in our own lives?
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INTERVIEW

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is cutting international cooperation

MIDDLE EAST: 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?
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Obedience in a corona time

Frédéric Gros: Disobey! A Philosophy of Resistance
Philosophy:  Why, where, when and for how long are we obedient?
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How do you "stay home" if you do not have a home?

Jessie Kindig, Mark Krotov, Marco Roth: There Is No Outside – Covid 19 Dispatches
Pandemic: Even during the pandemic, we maintain our status quo; the privileged remain privileged, and the others remain outside society.
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Protest can cost you your life

Nina Lakhani: Who Killed Berta Cáceres?
HONDURAS: Nina Lakhani's dangerous search for the truth behind the murder of environmental activist Berta Cáceres ends up in more questions than answers.
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Have you worried about the state of the world today?

Sibylle Berg: Nerds save the world
VOLUNTARY WORK: Sibylle Berg has written a current book in which she interviews nerds who are trying to save the world.
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Linguistic dishes

Kübra Gümüşay: Language and being
LANGUAGE AND GENDER: Kübra Gümüşay does a slightly different language dish in Sprache und Sein, where she advocates a new way of perceiving language.
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The void after father

Sibylle Lacan Translated by Adrian Nathan West: A Father (2019)
Fathers missed: Sibylle Lacan, daughter of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, tells of a sore father relationship in this short but strong memoir.
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A dance with words

Fiona McGovern, Megan Francis Sullivan, Axel Wieder: The Disintegration of a Critic
CRITICISM OF THE CRITICIAN: In The Disintegration of a Critic, a selection of Jill Johnston's personal and special reviews are presented and criticized by other writers and artists.
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