ESSAY: A reaction to the deconstruction of the subject is today a new subjective wave where everyone must rediscover themselves. Should some publishers protect such authors from themselves?
ESSAY: The constant focus on work, busyness and productivity removes us from a neighborhood between things – every day there are people who can feel that something is also breaking in them.
: With the national satire Peer Gynt, Ibsen made a catalog of so-called «Norwegian values»: the urge to dream away, ambivalence, lies, megalomania and a solid dose of selfishness.
: Our nature consumption has already wiped out hundreds of cultures and thousands of species. Soon it may also threaten our local pockets of wealth and order.
: ESSAY: The utopian believes in progress, but the idea of progress can also be cold, ruthless and irresponsible. Espen Hammer asks if it is finally time to make the oldest of everything – nature – our great utopia.
: Author Erland Kiøsterud responds to philosophy professor Arne Johan Vetlesen by discussing the almost ubiquitous violence in society, in nature and in thinking.
: The mythical dimension of politics can quickly become an unpleasant topic – but myth-making is also an indispensable part of our practical life, according to German Hans Blumenberg.