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ESSAY

I was completely out of the world

The author Hanne Ramsdal tells here what it means to be put out of action – and come back again. A concussion leads, among other things, to the brain not being able to dampen impressions and emotions.

Hanne Ramsdal - 6.March 2021

internationally

Juicy fines for coronal fractures in Spain

PENALTY::

In Spain, the authorities have the option of imposing hefty fines on citizens who refuse to be vaccinated or oppose restrictions during the pandemic.

Iril Kolle - 1.March 2021

INTERVIEW

A woman's struggle with reality

THE WOMEN OF EUROPE::

In our interview series with European women, Sweden's former Foreign and Vice Prime Minister Margot Wallström is the latest. She believes that we are currently living in a world of autocrats, where Nordic welfare values have poor conditions.

Truls Lie - 2-2020

COMMENT

Where are we going now?

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Is globalization an evil that should now be fought? No, it's more nuanced. We who have an international orientering looks with fear at how international cooperation is now weakening with the pandemic.

Truls Lie - 1-2020

literature

Dormant ideological viruses

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Slavoj Žižek: Pandemic! Covid-19 Shakes the World

Will a far more favorable ideological virus spread and hopefully infect us, the virus that makes us think of another society, beyond the nation-state, a society that realizes itself as global solidarity and cooperation?

Anders Dunk - 28. April 2020

literature

Creativity, openness, style consciousness, entrepreneurial spirit, empathy and cosmopolitanism

THE MIDDLE CLASS:
Andreas Reckwitz: The End of Illusions. Politics, Economics and Culture in the Late Modern

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 - 20. April 2020

ESSAY

A Norwegian in Naples

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The piazza is empty and the pizzerias are closed, but the Neapolitan (above) lives.

Ketil Fred Hansen - 16. April 2020

literature

In the age of opportunism

VIRUS:
Paolo Giordano ,: In time of infection: Report from the frontline of the pandemic

An Italian writer and physicist has wrought while the corona iron is hot. But his message is, paradoxically, drowning in the banalities that he believes should depart from mathematical realities.

Kjetil Korslund - 14. April 2020

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