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Together we are less alone

The competition principle of neoliberalism goes against our nature; it is cooperation that is unique to our species – and cooperation that can save us.
Henning Næs -

Will dampen the greenhouse effect by manipulating the atmosphere with synthetic emissions

When the climate becomes the main focus for cross-border politics, this is not necessarily good news. Clima Leviathan is trying to provide a political forecast for the climate crisis.
Anders Dunk -

A perpetual growth curve of incessant technological innovation from Tesla's Elon Musk, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and a host of other tech moguls

Critical settlement with the belief that technology can solve all of humanity's problems in artist and theorist James Bridle's new book.
Dominique Routhier -

Racism and class struggle

Only a radical abolition of the structural conditions for workers' exclusion – blacks as whites – could slow the ongoing social exclusion process in the United States, historian David Roediger claims in a new book.
Mikkel Bolt -

Love the monster

"We have no choice but to love the monster we created ourselves," says social-science-fiction writer Peter Frase. 
Dominique Routhier -

The power of impotence

We need a new activism – not through revolutionary change, but through systematic efforts to develop a humane and free society.
Anders Dunk -

The city's psychopathy

All architecture is political, claims the Swedish sociologist Göran Therborn, and praises modernity for its denial of authority.
Henning Næs -

Hegemony as power and opportunity

Perry Anderson has looked at the concept of hegemony and how it can be used in a politically advantageous way. 
Henning Næs -

Gone, but missed

Redemption and Utopia tells the story of European thinkers influenced by Jewish Kabbalah, Anarchism and Marxism – a type of thinker who no longer exists. 
Henning Næs -

Marx in dreams

Marxist humanism can help people feel at home in history, even when history hurts them. 
Henning Næs -

Alice in Warland

The West has believed in miracles in the Middle East, claims star journalist Patrick Cockburn. 
Henning Næs -

Bordered with boundless violence

The state has always tried to prevent people from moving freely and unattached. But isn't man really nomadic in his being?
Henning Næs -

Everyday Utopias

Political opposition exists in existing institutions and in everyday life, believes Frederick Jameson. 
Kjetil Røed -

Questionable overall stories about the environment

Long before the industrial revolution, people have been warning about what a predatory nature can do.
Anders Dunk -

The art of living a wild and natural life in a poisoned world

What naturalness are we really trying to find back?
Anders Dunk -
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