ChatGPT – an impersonal paradigm shift?

ESSAY: The cultural expression of current crisis capitalism is 'immediacy'. The keywords are speed and availability. But contemporary art of immediacy is the paradoxical reversal of the avant-garde's privileging of the artist as a creative individual and the liberation of the viewer. And is today's new 'insurgent anarchism' an expression of a rejection of this logistical late capitalism?

ISRAEL/PALESTINE: Francesca Albanese explains that Israel cannot invoke the right of self-defense in response to attacks by groups emanating from the occupied territory. That does not mean that the country does not have the right to protect its citizens and respond to Hamas's crimes – but not with war.

Last Monday, the Storting decided that Norway's place should continue to be a forward base in NATO's command system. SV was joined by two representatives from another party and voted against. Large parts of the debate were a continuous cannonade against the Electoral Association, which never acknowledges that Norway should be the bearer of arms for the great "western democracies".

By Svein Blindheim (1974) Orientering No. 18 brought an interview with Vilhelm Evang which is skewed and flawed because the reader will perceive it as if...

PHOTOGRAPH: Cultural researcher Özge Baykan Calafato has collected a fascinating photo archive by trawling Istanbul's markets for antiques and rarities. With a selection of these photographs, she analyzes the relationship between population and state ideology during the establishment of the secular republic of Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s.

USA: The American mission looks at the interesting field of tension between patriotism and liberalism, between inclusion and exclusion, and internationally between what are seen as friends and enemies of freedom. An analysis of how political myths formed the basis for an understanding of US national identity and agency in international conflicts, and of the 'American century', which seems to be fading these years.

HISTORY: Reading this book is at times almost like watching one of those Hollywood war movies that were so popular a few years ago.

BOOK: Photographer Manoocher Deghati is always on the side of the poorest, the amputees, the orphans, or the refugees queuing for water.

Essay: The author Hanne Ramsdal tells here what it means to be put out of action – and come back again. A concussion leads, among other things, to the brain not being able to dampen impressions and emotions.

PRIORITIES: Many who question the legitimacy of the US wars seem to be pressured by research and media institutions. An example here is the Institute for Peace Research (PRIO), which has had researchers who have historically been critical of any war of aggression – who have hardly belonged to the close friends of nuclear weapons.

SPAIN: The country receives sharp international criticism for the police and the Civil Guard's extensive use of torture, which is never prosecuted. Regime rebels are imprisoned for trifles. European accusations and objections are ignored.

COVID-19: There is no real skepticism from the public sector about the coronary vaccine – vaccination is recommended, and the people are positive about the vaccine. But is the embrace of the vaccine based on an informed decision or a blind hope for a normal everyday life?

Military: We focus on American Strategic Military Thinking (SAC) from 1950 to the present. Will the economic war be supplemented by a biological war?

Bjørnboe: In this essay, Jens Bjørneboe's eldest daughter reflects on a lesser – known psychological side of her father.

Y-Block: Five protesters were led away yesterday, including Ellen de Vibe, former director of the Oslo Planning and Building Agency. At the same time, the Y interior ended up in containers.

Pliers: The financial industry takes control of the Norwegian public.

EnvironmentFor many, green energy solutions are just a new way to make money, says director Jeff Gibbs.

Mike Davis: According to activist and historian Mike Davis, wild reservoirs, like bats, contain up to 400 types of coronavirus that are just waiting to spread to other animals and humans.

cohesion: The expectation of a paradise free of modern progress became the opposite, but most of all, Newtopia is about two very different men who support and help each other when life is at its most brutal.

Anorexia: shameless uses Lene Marie Fossen's own tortured body as a canvas for grief, pain and longing in her series of self portraits – relevant both in the documentary self Portrait and in the exhibition Gatekeeper.