COMMENTS Archives – MODERN TIMES

Svein Hammer - 20. January 2023

A good life without more and more of everything

GREEN GROWTH: MODERN TIMES has chosen to print an extract from the book Grønt manifesto by our regular critic. "Quality of life rather than forced growth": Three small but powerful words, which provide a key to changing the direction of social development, where our eternal pursuit of 'the most possible' is instead adjusted to the appreciation of 'adequate'.

Alexander Harang - 20. January 2023

New threat images, war in Europe – and the defense of the future

Halvor Tjønn - 20. January 2023

Learning from history

War: What will I do on the day the war is over and Russia is forced back behind the borders that applied before Putin in 2014 first went wild on Ukraine?

Andrew Seifert - 20. January 2023

Food from thin air. Almost.

Food production: The newly explored "air food" does not contain soy, hormones, pesticides, herbicides or genetically modified organisms. And the manufacturing process, which is carbon negative, can reduce traditional food production – which currently causes a third of the world's CO2 emissions.

Hanne Ramsdal - 20. January 2023

They play with kites, with snow, with a green brush, with broken pieces of mirror or a piñata

LEK: The exhibition by Francis Alÿs at Copenhagen Contemporary neither explains nor defines what play means. Rather, it is an archive of toys and forms lines of connection between people across the places we come from.

Hans Olav Brendberg - 1. January 2023

The end of the European peace

Ukraine: In the past year, probably 140 have died too early. What are we waiting for now?

Fredrik Lund - 31. December 2022

1914 and 2023

COMMENT: What should we say to the children, in the minutes before the nuclear explosions, when they cry and ask: "couldn't you do something... couldn't you talk together?"

Ihar Babka - 8. December 2022

The 'Russian World'

INTELLECTUAL: Belarusian and Ukrainian intellectuals have applied postcolonial theory to Russia since the 1990s – but have been largely ignored in the West. MODERN TIMES presents here the voices from the "border countries".

Truls Lie - 7. December 2022

Fascinating fascism and seductive drivers

NEO-FASCISM: Do many still have fascist longings today, or can one always blame seductive leaders? A closer dive into the 100-year-old Italian fascism and its descendants says something about the dangers we are now likely to face.

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