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The vitality of all things

Jane Bennett: Living materiality: The political ecology of things

MATERIALISM: It's about nature, ethics and influence – stem cell research, power outages, obesity epidemics and food policy.
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When nature abuse becomes normal

Nina Ossavy, Marius Kolbeinstvedt: True to Nature Edited

ECOLOGY: Naturtro opens with a journey through a Norway that has been taken over by wind farms and salmon farms. Has the weathering of nature become a normalized violence – in line with the logic of colonialism?
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Our own basis of life

PICTURE ART: Is art that takes a value position marginalized? The artist duo Book and Hedén's exhibition Real Adventures has a no-bullshit filter that is a rarity in the Norwegian art world.
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Photography in a climate time

Copenhagen Photo Festival: Photography can capture nature, document it, but also process nature. Showcase the being, the exotic, the vanishing in a special way.
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To imitate nature in order to master it

Michael Taussig: Mastery of Non-mastery in the Age of Meltdown

THE MIMETIC POWER: Imitating another is also a way to gain a power over the one portrayed. And how often do we see an imitation of the cosmos at a bar in a dark side street?
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The ecocentric man

NATURE: Conversation portrait with author Erland Kiøsterud about our ecological responsibility.
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“It would is not over. Long live what it would be! ”

Paul Wapner: Is Wildness Over?

NATURE: The attempt to control nature's wildness locally has created uncontrolled effects globally. Do we have to freeze and sweat more in the future, or is civilization far wilder?
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In the age of opportunism

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

VIRUS: An Italian writer and physicist has forged while the corona iron is hot. But paradoxically, his message drowns in the banalities that he believes should give way to mathematical realities.
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The nature of man's blind zone

Arne-Johan Vetlesen Routledge: Cosmologies of the Anthropocene

A GOOD NATURE?: In the philosopher Arne Johan Vetlesen's new book, environmental problems are a symptom that our way of thinking is completely wrong. Do we need to open up to the fact that everything around us is animated?
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A crescendo of anxiety

Michal Bielawski: The Wind. A Documentary Thriller

THE TATRA MOUNTAINS: The Wind is an evocative portrait of nature's incredible power and its touch of human life.
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Ambivalent about gene manipulation

Adam Bolt: Human Nature

GENREDIGERING: The new genetic technology puts a lot at stake for patients, parents and researchers. When letting nature take its course becomes controversial, the choices themselves become a problem.
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The climate crisis

Andreas Malm: The Progress of This Storm. Nature and Society in a Warming World

: Andreas Malm is a fierce and clear-sighted critic of the environmental destruction of capitalism. Now he is raging against a "reactionary environmental movement" and wants to save the concept of nature in order to save nature.
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Wind, water and birds

Florence Williams: Nature Fix. Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

: In an increasingly urban world, Florence Williams has set out to find out what different sensory impressions do to our well-being. 
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