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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.
Andrew P. Kroglund -
PHOTO

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.
Steffen Moestrup -
literature

“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?
Anders Dunk -
documentary

A movie for the big screen

Jan Vardøen: Descent into the Maelstrom

MAGNIFICENT: Ambitious depiction of nature and the people who live and work in Lofoten.
Aleksander Huser -
literature

About being attentive and taking the lot of things

CY Frostholm: Træmuseet

TREES: Through a conversation with trees, the author of the book becomes wiser about his relationship to loneliness, vulnerability and the grief over the disappearance of things.
Alexander Carnera -
literature

Can we recover the Amazon's lung?

Félix Guattari Translated by Christel Pedersen: The three ecologies

ECOSOFI: Current Brazil looks like Guattari's worst nightmare. His mental revolution also suggests that nature itself comes first.
Alexander Carnera -
literature

What place can we give the violence today?

Erland Kiøsterud: The ecology of silence

ECOLOGY: In autobiographical form, Kiøsterud continues his reflection on modernity in the age of the eco-crisis. He points to a normalized brutality that most tacitly accept.
Anders Dunk -
literature

future manufacturing

Elizabeth Grosz: Chaos, territory, art. Deleuze and the Earth Framing

ART & PHILOSOPHY: The earth as a whole has been transformed into human territory at the expense of all other life forms. MODERN TIMES prints here an excerpt from the book Chaos, territory, art.
Anders Dunk -
documentary

Making the desert green

Jared P. Scott: The Great Green Wall

CLIMATE CHANGES: Musician Inna Modja travels along the 8000-kilometer route for Africa's ambitious Great Green Wall project, where a wall of trees will stretch across the continent.
Carmen Gray -
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 -
documentary

The little piece of urban nature

Phie Ambo: Genopdagelsen

CHILD AND NATURE: How can a curriculum assist the growing human being to interact with the world?
Niels Johan Nielsen -
documentary

Without any idea of ​​the future

Jure Breceljnik, Rozle Bregar: The Last Ice Hunters

THE INUT CULTURE: The Last Ice Hunters explore the infamous hunting culture of the Inuit far to the north and its inevitable finality.
dieter@gmail.com -
documentary

Nature calls

Egil Håskjold Larsen: Where to return

: We live in a time where nature with increasing violence is getting closer and closer to us. Where one returns is about surviving in a wild and powerful nature, and about the sacrifices this requires.
Aleksander Huser -
literature

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.
Anders Dunk -
literature

The philosophy of life and nature

Sigurd Hverven: natural Philosophy

: How should we understand nature's relation to our man – made culture?
Svein Hammer -
documentary

Nuclear power on the film screen

: URANIUM MOVIE FESTIVAL. By Hans-Georg Koehler, Berlin

: There are several good reasons why the Uranium festival should be held in Norway. But not with the support of Statoil.
Hans-Georg Kohler -
literature

The ecology of conversation

: Author Erland Kiøsterud responds to philosophy professor Arne Johan Vetlesen by discussing the almost ubiquitous violence in society, in nature and in thinking.
Erland Kiøsterud -
Criticism

Nature's intrinsic value

: In an in-depth confrontation with his role models, Arne Johan Vetlesen seeks language for experiences that cannot be grasped with the classical rationality of philosophy. So what speaks – when nature itself speaks to us?
Erland Kiøsterud -

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