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Rune V. Harritshøj

Writer living in Buenos Aires.

Gigantic global experiment

MEDIA: In the book Digital hedgehogs, Italian Davide Sisto tackles what the virtual does to our self-perception and our five – perhaps many more – senses.

Iconic paintings and photographs

Role models: In public Latin America, the addiction heroes Bolívar and San Martin or Che Guevara and Evita are either idolized or satanized through paintings and photographs. This book takes a closer look at why.

A technological totalitarianism

Spania: The Spanish writer Cristina Martín Jiménez illuminates how our supreme freedom, the freedom of thought, is under attack, because the great majority still believe in authority. This weakens our awareness, our critical sense and inner rebel.

To modernize an entire continent

PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE: The tendency of Latin American writers to focus on a better future is part of the region's renewed self-awareness – and modernization with free abortion and new constitutions.

The pandemic exhibits dictatorship states

LATIN AMERICA: Mexican Sabina Berman's novel, HDP, is self-experienced from the interior of a mega-group. In a Latin America with 9 percent of the world's population, and 32 percent of the world's covid 19 dead.

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 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?

The Counter-Revolution in the 21st Century

ALT-RIGHT: Argentine political scientist takes the pulse of the alt-right both high and low and shows the cultural struggle that gives the alt-right tailwind and the center-left wing headwind.