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literature

Who will own the stories?

Rebecca Solnit: Whose Story Is This?

POWER: Whose Story Is This? encourages each of us to change the world by changing the story we choose to tell and to whom it belongs.
Pinar Ciftci -
MANAGER

What's new in the uprising

NEWSPAPER EDITOR: The new form of protest mentioned by the anarchists does not want an overarching "narrative" about the events in Hong Kong.
Truls Lie -
documentary

From prosthetic to dictator

Vitaly Man: Putin's Witnesses

: In Putin's Witnesses, we follow Putin's path to power in Russia, and see how early promises of a free press end in full rejection of democratic rules.
Nick Holdsworth -
literature

The new culture of uncertainty

Mary Kaldor: Global Security Cultures

: Mary Kaldor's research shows that the security strategies of those in power maintain and aggravate wars rather than stop them, and create good conditions for war profiteers.
Andrew Kroglund -
literature

The word as the key to power and prestige

Mary Beard: Women & Power. A manifesto

: Women and power is a short story. Women's silence has a thousand-year-old tradition. 
Ranveig Eckhoff -
documentary

Power and resistance

Irene Langemann: Pavlensky – Man and Might

: Irene Langemann's documentary about Pyotr Pavlensky asks the question: Faced with extreme repression by the state, what can an individual do, other than resort to extreme actions?
dieter@gmail.com -
internationally

About recognition and power

: When Trump acts as he does, impulsively and impatiently, it is in the desire for recognition.
Terje Dragseth -
literature

Hegemony as power and opportunity

Perry Anderson: The H-Word. The Peripeteia of Hegemony

: Perry Anderson has looked more closely at the concept of hegemony, and how it can be used in a politically useful way. 
Henning Næs -
internationally

Civil power in dark times

: Many become pessimists about Trump and the rise of right-wing populism, but abuse of power and inequality can give new life to civil society. 
Kjetil Røed -
literature

Soft porn for the down side

Jean Quatremer: Read the Salauds de l'Europe Guide to the Eurosceptics

: As the modern world's last pacifist utopia, the European adventure must continue, writes Jean Quatremer, who can still quickly become the neo – nephew's useful idiot.
Paal Frisvold -
video

Asbjørn Aarnes – a life

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Truls Lie -

Full 100-page MODERN TIMES including the appendix Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly (March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1) with international book reviews, essays and comments – in addition to the physical newspaper and PDF, the articles are eventually published online here (see also the newsletter).

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