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He was blown up – no one was held responsible

Pino Manzella: Peppino Impastato. Difficult memory

MAFIA: This is a collection of anecdotal testimonies about a self-destructive social machinery with the mafia as its main pillar. In Sicily, this environment was about the mafia – but also about the war in Vietnam, Palestinian rights, environmental protection, class society, legal abortion and women's liberation.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

A good life without more and more of everything

GREEN GROWTH: MODERN TIMES has chosen to print an extract from the book Grønt manifesto by our regular critic. "Quality of life rather than forced growth": Three small but powerful words, which provide a key to changing the direction of social development, where our eternal pursuit of 'the most possible' is instead adjusted to the appreciation of 'adequate'.
Svein Hammer -

Gonzo interpretation of Surrealism's sorceress

Suzanne 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 -

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 -

About shitting culturally in your own nest

NOVEMBER 1, 1969: Observations by Sigurd Evensm:
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A society built on artificial intelligence

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

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of situationism in and for the digital age, where the nihilistic cut-and-paste aesthetic of punk seems to have been replaced by trolling and the meme culture of the internet?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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

Some are more invisible than others

Binna Choi and Yolande van der Heide (eds.): Concept: Werker Collective (Rogier Delfos and Marc Roig Blesa) 365 Days of Invisible Work

: Werker Collective has collected 365 photographs of the work that is not seen, and which takes place in the home – own or someone else's.
Nina Trige Andersen -

Hidden everyday racism in France

Tanya de Montaigne: L'assignation. Les Noirs' existing pass

: On a daily basis, we constantly sacrifice the uniqueness, identity and individuality of others on the altar of group affiliation, writes the French political scientist Tania de Montaigne in a new book.
Ketil Fred Hansen -
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