MANAGER
The war – and most people
In this summer issue, as MODERN TIMES's editor, I publish a selection of articles that probably reflect different opinions than most people have about the war in Ukraine.
The warlike mindset
UKRAINE: What is it about our modern way of life that promotes such hostility and military-technological "solutions"?
The three ecologies
Air conditioning: What does the city of Siracusa have in common with the UN and a French philosopher?
Massive changes
BRUCE ALWAYS: How about looking back over 30 years, to be able to see and act into the future?
A liberal left?
Accelerationism: Several thinkers believe that it is possible for what they call a rather complacent left to carve out a better and freer future through capitalism and technology.
The masses and the people
PSYCHOLOGY: Is it possible to understand why the majority choose a leader or a slave-like existence?
Bjørneboe, Gateavisa, and post-anarchism
Is it possible that traits from anarchism still have great validity for some of us today?
Book reviews
Why do we always ask why men commit acts of violence, instead of asking why they don't allow it?
FEMICID: Murders of women do not only occur structurally and not only based on misogynistic motives – they are also largely trivialized or go unpunished.
Old new in new packaging
MEMORIES: Nostalgia has been made into a commercial product that makes the past a constant and pressing presence. Do we really belong in a past tense? Memories are today produced, preserved and managed by commercial actors, by cultural products – which, to say it with Marx, are fetishized. Pop cultural products of the past are recycled, made into collectibles and picture books for the coffee table, sold as retro designs.
The iguaca parrots no longer sing
THE CLIMATE CRISIS: This book makes all other climate literature seem dangerously anthropocentric. We obviously haven't been very good at monitoring the earthly paradise.
A mentality from the Cold War era
INTELLIGENCE: In the United States, 18 different U.S. agencies at the government level are engaged in intelligence activities. In 1996 there were 6 million decisions to declassify material – by 2016 this had grown to 55 million!
A mental and military turning point
GERMANY: How 'war-ready' should a country be? With a number of top positions in international politics, crisis management and security, security expert Carlo Masala is regarded as an undeniable authority in the field.
