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MIDDLE CLASS: Current in these corona times is whether Reckwitz's analysis opens up a restructuring of the economy back to a "real economy" – from the cultural capitalism in which the goods promise consumers symbolic, narrative, aesthetic and ethical experiences.
Eivind Tjønneland -

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.
Alexander Carnera -

Nihilism and individualism replaced with solidarity and community?

ACCELERATIONISM: For the children of the new millennium, conservatism is a dead ideology. And above neoliberalism, a new communist realism is now taking shape among young Britons.
Mats Andreas Nielsen -

Climate activism without the state

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

Brexit: The price of dishonesty

CHALLENGES OF EUROPE: The Brexit chaos seems to culminate in the British leaving the EU – now that the election of Boris Johnson has been postponed. Brexit is the price the British have to pay for not having had an honest discussion about immigration, multiculturalism and the British Empire. But are Britain's problems unique?
gary@nytid.com -

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 -

Trump's raucous racist rhetoric

BIOPOLITIK: Does the public notion of order necessitate extreme violence against specific population groups (natives, blacks, Muslims etc.)? May 5000 poor and lost migrants meet by a wall and mobilize 15000 soldiers?
Mikkel Bolt -

Climate rebel with unity and lightning glue

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: Is it possible to get something positive out of a recognition that civilization and the globe are about to go down?
Iril Kolle -

An internationalism that should not be nationalistic

populism: Antonio Gramsci would have united self-righteousness and internationalism. MODERN TIMES talks to philosopher Diego Fusaro in connection with a new Norwegian release.
Geir Lima -

The hidden fascism

FASCISM: Is it possible to live a non-fascist life in a society built on fascist power structures?
Pinar Ciftci -

"So! then you can go away, stupid surveillance capitalism. "

MONITORING: I just don't realize that the root of the problem lies in digital penetration everywhere.
Nina Trige Andersen -

Criticism of capitalism today

The context of crisis: A coherent analysis of dominance is one of the major challenges facing anti-capitalism today.
Mikkel Bolt -

Chaos always triumphs over order

Assange: WikiLeaks is a Puritan illusion.
franco@nytid.no -

The 6. masseudryddelse

CHINA: How do we wake up to a world with China as ruler?
Niels Johan Juhl-Nielsen -

A counterbalance to today's cruel lack of solidarity

Totalitarianism? The anarcho-communist critic Franco Berardi believes we have overestimated reason and intelligence as a world-changing force.
Anders Dunk -

The wild socialism

SELF-ORGANIZATION: Is anti-authoritarian socialism there when the labor movement has disappeared, or is it rather a matter of something new emerging?
Mikkel Bolt -
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