Weekly international orientering since 1953. – a cultural radical anarchist valueorientering.
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Dear reader, welcome to the new New Time. We want to resurrect the newspaper's over 60-year-old tradition, which started with the newspaper Orientering and later renamed New Time exactly 40 years ago. Instead of being renamed to something new, we will continue many of the ideas from editor Sigurd Evensmo and his circle from the 50s – as the newspaper started out as a political-intellectual international orientering for people engaged in what kind of world we want to live in. It is with Orienteringthe clue that we now call the newspaper cultural radical, as they then both turned left and right, both against the United States / NATO and the Soviet Union. They called it "the third way". But also in the sense of not being dogmatic, full of claims or that we, like certain others, would like to put one-sided and incorrect labels on people. But why cultural culture now, long after Dagbladet called it, and I as editor in Morgenbladet (1993–2003) had this as a motto? Yes, because the term is still comprehensive, but in the sense the fourth phase of cultural radicalism, for our time. As Professor Eivind Tjønneland in the journal Vagant termed the predecessors with aristocratic Georg Brandes, Sigurd Hoel or a Jens Bjørneboe, we no longer allow "radix" to mean "to go to the root", but to go to the connections, to the network, to the surface. wickerwork, to what lies ahead of us in terms of power and human behavior. For us, radicality does not mean going into depth, digging into the earth, but being present in the international networks. Philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari described networks as "rhizome", a bud-shooting root network, as grape clusters and other root stems multiply. These roots of the roots are here among us on the ground, rather than being a thought-figure who bourgeois-Christian ascends to heaven as the tree extends towards a god. But we might like to be inspired by the color scale of the rainbow, as the multicultural is a vision, rather than the enemy image of us – them or a scissor so-called two sides. For us, reality is far more complicated, we look to Marx's superstructure to explain its basis, and not the other way around. In our journalism we should keep an eye on the meaning plane, which is not deeper, but rather in doxa, in people's habits, or in ethics where something is at stake. We hope that the revival of New Time, via a classic full format inspired by the International New York Times, will attract more qualified readers. Yes, we understand that we are just a niche in the Norwegian public, and Evensmo understood that with his «little we», but we hope that we can create an active public with the heart on the right side. Intellectually, we are thus inspired by the left, but with this editor's anarchist inclinations, the importance of human freedom also goes hand in hand with a minimum of socialism. So how do we do this in the future? By focusing on outreach and investigative journalism within three Ks: Conflict (peace work, war, abuse of power), control (regimes of surveillance, economy, intelligence and terrorism), and climate (environment, ecology, quality of life). As we live in an increasingly visual culture, our cultural critique is mainly directed at moving images, film, documentaries, television, video art and games, as well as some non-fiction and some international authors. Our cultural critique will be integrated throughout the newspaper, we do not sharply distinguish between the world of film and reality, as the documentary is part of the investigative journalism of our time. We see our actual reality and cultural expression integrated as opinion formation – as our value choices come from our environment, our history, but not least from the media's reality production, our consumption of popular culture and also some people's cultural radical resistance taken from contemporary films and books. We are published every Wednesday as a weekly international orientering. We can be the center of the week, also in the middle between today's somewhat bourgeois business-owned Morgenbladet and the more popular-national Klassekampen. We will try to re-establish a culturally radical public. If you join the journey, we will promise you that we will eventually get better. Because with a quarter of the resources others use to create something similar, our niche needs readers. A nuanced critique with the constructivism of the heart – because as Evensmo wrote in the 50s, it is not very radical to constantly say NO to most things. If you want something, you can uproot something and plant again. But for us, it probably means the braiding of the wickerwork, small steps at a time. So I beg you, have patience with the newspaper that is now to be rebuilt. truls lie
