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MODERN TIMES is as a commentary at the same time a book review with around 40 books mentioned in each issue (March, June, September, December). We discuss (preferably in an essayistic way) nonfiction Interior political, ecological and philosophical literature, but also literature in our time "big tech".
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The cynical creation of the Internet

SURVEILLANCE:State surveillance would not have been possible without the services of Silicon Valley's technology companies. For example, Google in Surveillance Valley is described as "a full-fledged military contractor, who sold versions of the company's consumer data and analytics technology to police departments, city councils, and major U.S. intelligence and military organizations."
Patricia Sequeira Brás -

Israel – a utopia?

ISRAEL: The German-Israeli author Omri Boehm has a past in Israeli secret services. He wants us to put the Nakba – the violent expulsion of around 700 Palestinians – on a par with the Holocaust.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

The gentle, ordinary and tame

CHINA: Via the sinologist François Jullien, Arne de Boever reveals blind spots, dangerous prejudices and decisive differences in mentality in the meeting between East and West.
Anders Dunk -

"There you are, my friend"

TOWEL: An eternal relationship of tension between the individual and the community. With age, has Peter Handke gradually given up on rage?
Luke Lehner -

Obsolete human rights

FREEDOM: Ferdinand von Schirach will inspire a modernization of the democratic system.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

An Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Bodies (IoB) and Internet of Minds (IoM)

Zuckerberg presents the visions for the 21st century, you should pay close attention to what is the concrete content of what they present of technology, researched in the laboratories of Silicon Valley.
Terje Dragseth -

Information!

KNOWLEDGE: What should we trust? How should we use the information we receive in our own lives?
Pinar Ciftci -

Political propaganda, role mixing and politicians – Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, Pinochet, Gaddafi, Erdogan….

DICTATORS: It is your network of contacts that shows who you are and that gives you a job.
Ketil Fred Hansen -

Anarchist pedagogy

EDUCATION: An anarchist school model is based on an anti-authoritarian, non-hierarchical, autonomous thinking. Is it possible to re-actualize today?
Janicke Heldal -

"Rather break the law than the poor"

ACCOMMODATION: London, a futuristic skyscraper city, a neo-Tokyo, a city in a country ruled by an authoritarian and nationalist elite. Where did Corbyn's manifesto for massive development of municipal housing go?
Alf Jørgen Schnell -

Today's perverse fascination with everything new

PSYCHOLOGY: A book about self-esteem, eating disorders, trauma and eternal depression – and love.
Margareta Hruza -

Torpedoing of metaphysics

BELIEVE: Rosset takes a hard line against the whole idea of ​​duplication between what we see and what "really" is behind it. This is escapism and reluctance to see what we have right in front of us, he believes.
Kjetil Korslund -

To understand what God might have meant by sending them to an extermination camp

THE JEWISH: About anxiety, paranoia and the Jews' contribution to culture.
Henning Næs -

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.
Rune V. Harritshøj -

Seducers love majority decisions

IDEA HISTORY: Is Greece more of a cultural periphery in the Middle East than the origin of our modern democracy? Aristotle believed that the Phoenicians in Carthage, like the law – isonomia – had a better government than Athens – the so-called cradle of democracy.
Dag Herbjørnsrud -

The experience of (un) human encounters with the ancients

NURSING: After a decade in Norwegian elderly care, nurse Vigdis J. Reisæter could no longer bear to give a sedative to anxiety sufferers of dementia instead of a hand to hold and an ear to listen with.
Nina Trige Andersen -
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Surveillance Valley. The Secret Military History of the Internet
Forfatter: Yasha Levine
Forlag: PublicAffairs, (USA)
SURVEILLANCE / State surveillance would not have been possible without the services of Silicon Valley's technology companies. For example, Google in Surveillance Valley is described as "a full-fledged military contractor, who sold versions of the company's consumer data and analytics technology to police departments, city councils, and major U.S. intelligence and military organizations."




(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)

Rich full-format MODERN TIMES including the supplement Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly in early March, June, September and December) with international book reviews (non-fiction) and comments / essays. According to the physical newspaper (and PDF), the articles are published regularly online (see the newsletters).

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