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A proposal for increased democracy, called «pluralist socialism»

ECONOMY:
Pelle Dragsted: Nordic Socialism – Towards a democratic 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.

Niels Johan Juhl-Nielsen - 1. May 2021

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The protest against the elites, against the government, against the bureaucracy and the representative democracy

3 BOOKS ON ECOLOGY:
Mads Christoffersen, Kallis, Paulson, D'Alisa, Demaria, Barcelona En Comú, Debbie Bookchin, Ada Colau: The Yellow Vests Have the Word, The Case of DEGROWTH, Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement

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?

Niels Johan Juhl-Nielsen - 28. April 2021

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What happens after the collapse?

SOCIETY:
Carlos Taibo: Collapse

There are many indications that a definitive collapse is approaching. For many people, the collapse is already a fact.

Marc Molas Carol - 27. April 2021

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Psychedelic communism

RADICAL CHIC: :
Mark Fisher (ed.) Introduction by Matt Colquhoun: Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

If the left is ever to become dominant again, it must, according to Mark Fisher, embrace the desires that have emerged under capitalism, not just reject them. The left should cultivate technology, automation, reduced working day and popular aesthetic expressions such as fashion.

Alf Jørgen Schnell - 23. April 2021

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When there is politics in the courtroom

THAILAND:
Duncan McCargo: Fighting for Virtue. Justice and Politics in Thailand

A powerful elite in Thailand – Myanmar's neighbor – has been trying to resolve the country's political problems with the courts for the past decade, which has only exacerbated the situation. In a new book, Duncan McCargo warns against "legalization."

Nina Trige Andersen - 22. April 2021

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Theatrical, circus-like, violent and threatening sexual elements

SURREALISTIC:
Collected and curated by Bernière and Nicolas Tellop: The Seven Lives of Alejandro Jodorowsky

Jodorowsky is a man full of creative arrogance, boundless creative urge and completely without desire or ability to compromise with himself.

Henning Næs - 21. April 2021

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The «smart» interior of everyday life

GIMMICK:
Sianne Ngai: Theory of the Gimmick

Sianne Ngai is one of the most original Marxist cultural theorists of her generation. But she seems keen on pulling the aesthetics down into the mud.

Dominique Routhier - 16. April 2021

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Divorce is as common in Niger as in Norway

COMMUNITY BREACH:
Alhassane A. Najoum: The conjugal ruptures in Muslim sub-Saharan Africa

It is expensive to get married in Niger even though the bride price varies, and in the event of divorce, women are obliged to pay back the bride price.

Ketil Fred Hansen - 14. April 2021

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Obedience in a corona time

Philosophy:
Frédéric Gros: Disobey! A Philosophy of Resistance

Why, where, when and for how long are we obedient?

Pinar Ciftci - 12. April 2021

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Heads floating in the sky

MYTHOLOGIES:
Roberto Calasso: The Celestial Hunter

In Calasso's fourteen essays, we often find ourselves between myth and science.

Alicja Rosé - 11. April 2021

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The authoritarian state capitalism

CHINA:
Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg: The silent conquest. How China is undermining Western democracies and reorganizing the world

It is known that China under Xi Jinping has developed in an autocratic direction. The authors show how the effect has spread in the rest of the world.

Ranveig Eckhoff - 9. April 2021

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Political or despotic?

PHILOSOPHY:
Oskar Negt: Political philosophy of common sense. Volume 2, Morality and Society: Immanuel Kant

Oskar Negt asks how the modern political citizen came into being in the wake of the French Revolution. When it comes to political terror, he is clear – it is not political.

Lukas Lehner - 8. April 2021

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The whole world is overwintering in our time

SELF-HELP:
Katherine May: Wintering – The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

With Wintering, Katherine May has projected an alluring, essayistic self-help book on the art of overwintering.

Steffen Moestrup - 6. April 2021

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To imitate nature in order to master it

THE MIMETIC POWER:
Michael Taussig: Mastery of Non-mastery in the Age of Meltdown

Imitating another is also a way to gain power over the person portrayed. And how often do we see an imitation of the cosmos at a bar in a dark side street?

Alexander Carnera - 30.March 2021

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Up from the trenches

Radiation:
Nina FitzPatrick: Tesla's Curse

Do the researchers in the novel find the ultimate proof that parts of modern technology are destroying human neurological biology?

Christian Borch - 29.March 2021

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Is it a national goal to create happy citizens?

HAPPINESS:
Edgar Cabanas, Eva Illouz: Manufacturing Happy Citizens – How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control our Lives

Joy has recently become a large and lucrative business in most of the western world. New book takes a wise assessment of modern society's pursuit of happiness, and concludes that happiness in many cases is illusory.

Hans Henrik Fafner - 26.March 2021

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