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Gonzo interpretation of Surrealism's sorceress

Susanne Christensen: Leonora's journey Author

UNCOMPROMISING: The book about the artist Leonora Carrington is a journey into the jungle of surrealism, a successful escape from the conventional and a fantasy infiltration of the established.
Anders Dunk -
literature

About belonging

Aon Raza Naqvi (ed.): Third Culture Kids

IDENTITY: Finally comes the book about what it is like to grow up between two cultures, told by Norwegian third culture children.
Pinar Ciftci -
Orientering 50 years ago (MODERN TIMES 'forerunner)

About shitting culturally in your own nest

NOVEMBER 1, 1969: Observations by Sigurd Evensm:
singur@nytid.com -
COMMENT

A society built on artificial intelligence

UTOPI OR FUTURE: Is artificial intelligence and automation a lifeline or a threat to society?
sami@nytid.com -
literature

Cultural-historical monument to the contradictions of the situationists

Eleven Presbyteries: These are Situationist Times! An inventory of reproductions, deformations, modifications, derivations, and transformations

THE SITUATIONISTS: What is the relevance of situationism in and for the digital age, where the nihilistic cut-and-paste aesthetic of punk seems to have been replaced by trolling and the meme culture of the internet?
Dominique Routhier -
ESSAY

The good old days ”- a time without feminism, migration and globalization

LATE FASCISM: The notion of constituting an endangered culture is echoed in all the various late fascist communities
Mikkel Bolt -
literature

An eco-anarchist utopia

Cartoonist Alessandro Pignocchi: The recomposition of the moon

: The ZADISTS: «We do not defend nature. We are nature defending itself. "
Mikkel Bolt -
literature

The digital wealth makes us poorer

Jay David Bolter: The Digital Plenitude: The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media

: NEW MEDIA: Jay David Bolter provides a thorough description of today's digital culture, where technology makes it easy to create and shape digital communities that users fill with unpaid content.
Melita Zajc -
ESSAY

The pursuit of recognition has destructive consequences. Social justice is reduced to psychological problems

: Identity politics is a married child of the narcissistic culture, where violations and rejection are perceived as serious threats to self-worth.
Eivind Tjønneland -
internationally

Islam's forgotten culture and the meaning of Sufism

: What is the change that has taken place in a culture that has fascinated explorers and free thinkers for centuries?
Alexander Carnera -
literature

California Dreaming?

David Vogel: California Greenin '- How Golden State Became and Environmental Leader

: In his new book, Professor David Vogel describes how the state in a number of areas has managed to implement its own regulations to support economic and cultural development and growth.
Niels Johan Juhl-Nielsen -
internationally

Cool, crazy fascism

: The new fascism has thrown aside the seriousness of the old fascism – it is loose and relaxed, it is fun. 
Mikkel Bolt -
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