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How capitalist alienation has assumed form

THE MEDIA SOCIETY:
Guy Debord: The spectacular community

An analysis of how human relationships, including language, have been staged. Here in a cool elegance, what Debord himself called "the style of negation."
Mikkel Bolt -
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literature

Trump's raucous racist rhetoric

BIOPOLITICS:
Nikhil Pal Singh: Race and America's Long War Author

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 -
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documentary

Crazy in the streets of Jerusalem

THE BOYS:
Joseph Cedar: Our Boys

Israeli docu-drama takes care of the traumatic wave of violence and revenge that led to open war in the summer of 2014.
Hans Henrik Fafner -
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