Order the summer edition here

Myanmar

What about surveillance in the digital culture revolution?

Thomas Hylland Eriksen: The planet of apps – how the smartphone changed the world

big tech: The planet of apps is probably one of the richest things you can now read about how we humans "sew together" with communication technology. But what about surveillance?
Truls Lie -

Aung San Suu Kyi's growth and international fall

Karen Stokkendal Poulsen: On The Inside of a Military Dictatorship

MYANMAR: Mentioning Myanmar as a military dictatorship in 2019 is as provocative as claiming that the emperor goes without clothes.
Audun@burma.no -

Genocide in seductive colors

Patrick Brown: No Place on Earth

GENOCIDE: Exceptional photo book provides a shocking insight into the genocide of the Rohingya.
Ellen Lande -

The evil or the unbearable?

Barbet Schroeder: Le Vénérable W. ("The Honorable W.")

: Topical now, with the exile of the Royhinga people: The last part of Barbet Schroeder's Trilogy of Evil deals with the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu – the prime mover of anti-Muslim activity and the barn in Myanmar.
Dieter Wieczorek -

"The Lady" and the game about the Earth

:
ingeborg.moa@gmail.com -
The planet of apps – how the smartphone changed the world
Forfatter: Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Forlag: Aschehoug (Norge)
BIG TECH / The planet of apps is probably one of the richest things you can now read about how we humans "sew together" with communication technology. But what about surveillance?



(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)

Full 100-page MODERN TIMES including the appendix Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly in early March, June, September and December) with international book reviews (non-fiction) and comments / essays. According to the physical newspaper (and PDF), the articles are published regularly online (see the newsletters).

© MODERN TIMES & Orientering AS. PO Box 3113 Elisenberg, 0207 Oslo. Chief editor: Truls Lie

Newsletters