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Can the UN contribute to peace and welfare for future generations?

POLITICAL: Denmark is now a member of the UN Security Council and must try to contribute to developing or re-establishing respect for the UN's mission. What does the book Liberating the United Nations say? And what about seeing ourselves as part of nature – with the mindsets, systems and objects we surround ourselves with today, it is difficult to understand, according to Jakob Jespersen.

What is planetary politics?

THE GLOBE: The two world wars forced humanity to seek peace and brought about the League of Nations and the United Nations. The pandemic and climate change have shown us that we need a planetary governance, and a planetary politics – but can we achieve this without a despotic world government?

Russian roulette with…

NUCLEAR WEAPONS: The experts say the danger of nuclear war has never been greater than right now. The danger of accidents, nuclear weapons going astray, cyber infiltration and misunderstandings has increased. Here comes a deep dialogue with the nuclear weapons philosophy, where intellectuals have tried to get a grip on the incomprehensible: the threat of the annihilation of the world. And what does Sergej A. Karaganov, foreign policy and military strategic adviser to Putin's government, say? Is the only thing we can do is to postpone the apocalypse, to avert it again and again?

The road to true anarchism

Agamben: The archeology of religion, art, politics, and capitalism is not a search for any kind of origin – but a search for a foundation that tears past notions to their roots.

The Church and the military

RUSSIA: Did the annexation of Crimea really come from religious circles? Membership of the Russian Orthodox Church promotes military careers.

Not quite the same as kindness, gentleness, generosity, as goodness, as sweet, as soft, as the quality of velvet, as subtle secret

A beautiful and wise book about daring as an active passivity and resistance in ethics and politics.

The fire as a source of life

Georgio Agamben brings the reader on track to the essential questions of the transforming power of literature – the relation to the mystery of life itself. 

An intellectual ode to Snowden, Assange and Manning

Snowden, Assange and Manning represent a whole new way of resisting. The Art of Revolt is as radical and original in its thinking as the three aforementioned notices are in their resistance work.