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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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Sun and sorrow in Sicily

SICILY: The South Italian family is still a powerful institution. It slides seamlessly into the mafia's power structure, with its familismo amoral. The family is the law – not the social institutions.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

If we are to solve the climate crisis, we must speed up

CLIMATE: Sluggish speed in climate action will harm the climate, people and democracy, according to Bernd Ulrich.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

Climate activism without the state

RADICAL CRITICISM? Is the climate crisis legitimizing a new authoritarian state mode of government?
Mikkel Bolt -

Organic rage

ETHIOPIA: Could modernity have sprinkled some small blessings on people groups in Nobel laureate Abiy Ahmed's homeland?
Thomas Hylland Eriksen -

Skinless exposure

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.
Ellen Lande -

Economic motives can ruin artificial intelligence

KI: What happens if we create something that is more intelligent than ourselves, a machine that might do something completely different than we want?
Henning Næs -

Crises are good store

AFRICA: A great many consultants and mission researchers have made good money on the crises in the belt that stretches across Africa. Sahel has become important not only for Norway, but also for the EU and the US.
Ketil Fred Hansen -

Four measures against the use-and-throw culture

FALSE NEEDS: Keucheyan does not want authoritarian Marxism where the bureaucracy decides what its citizens need. He also suggests that in order to reduce today's consumption, manufacturers must make products with longer life and warranty.
Eivind Tjønneland -

Filmatic rebellion

PROTEST: Morgan Adamson's Enduring Images brings new life to the 1960s revolutionary film and reminds us of the need to fight the prevailing forms of representation.
Mikkel Bolt -

When Foucault took acid in the desert

LSD: How did Foucault's own experiences color his political thinking? And do psychedelics help with anxiety, depression and addiction?
Emma Bakkevik -

Why does Islam need a sexual revolution?

ISLAM: In a time when fear of Islam is spreading, Seyran Ates writes that Islam needs a sexual revolution to gain respect from the world community.
Pinar Ciftci -

A traveling anarchist suitcase

JOURNAL? A Danish cross-aesthetic journal has now published its new double number 4-5 on almost 500 pages.
Alexander Carnera -

The anatomy of democracy

Fukuyama: Francis Fukuyama is one of the world's foremost democracy theorists, and this book gives an updated introduction to his overall authorship.
Kjetil Korslund -

Kafka before the law

RIGHTS: Who has the rights to Franz Kafka's scripts? Kafka was a Jew, lived in Prague and wrote in German, but was he really identityless?
Henning Næs -

The helpful robots of the future will give you a brainstorm

ROBOTS: We can look forward to both brainstem and elimination of neurological diseases in a robot-assisted future.
Henning Næs -

The diverse global village

MEDIA: Transnational media landscapes are emerging and shaping a backdrop of increasing mobility in our global village
Melita Zajc -
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Grief and light
Forfatter: Maike Albath
Forlag: Berenberg Verlag (Tyskland)
SICILY / The South Italian family is still a powerful institution. It slides seamlessly into the mafia's power structure, with its familismo amoral. The family is the law – not the social institutions.




(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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