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Iconography, weaving and architecture

ART: How can art and craft be understood as different. In the publication with Aby Warburg's texts, we learn that matters that lie outside the work being studied must be emphasized in order to understand it. Like the release with Lina Bo Bardi, architecture is almost incomprehensible without knowing the context within which it appears.
Sverre Følstad -

Doesn't the ground hurt, brother?

ANIMALS: Ethically speaking, we are way overtime with our treatment of the non-human animals. Many of these have emotions such as fear, pity and sadness. We shouldn't eat animals, but what if we get sick from not doing so?
Nina Ossavy -

Erich Fromm as a theorist

FREUD/MARX: Does historical materialism ("Marxism") have a flawed conceptual framework when it has to decipher the capitalist social formations of our time?
Dag Østerberg -

NATO base Norway

MILITARISERING: From being a "pact between independent nations", NATO developed in a short time into a gigantic military apparatus. Do we have a fight against the compact silence? Kari Enholm documents.
Orientering (1953-75) -

"The people will be led"

PHILOSOPHY: Is freedom of speech a matter for scholars? Are Trump and QAnon entitled to free speech? There is much to suggest that Kant would answer no to this question.
Lars Holm-Hansen -

A death sentence on the Syrian state

SYRIA: A multisectoral, multi-religious, multi-linguistic and multiethnic state torn to shreds by the Ba'ath party, extremists, militias and rival superpowers, all demanding their share of the country.
Kurt Sweeney -

We who loved America

The title of this article is not ironic. I myself belong to those who have truly loved America, and I know how it feels.
Jens Bjørneboe -

Carl Schmitt – an unpleasant theorist

POLITICAL THEORY: Political is not a talk club for the philosopher Carl Schmitt. Rather, it is the action that shows us who we are and who is the enemy.
Kjetil Korslund -

A still very secret world

During the Cold War, Stay Behind armies were to be mobilized in Western Europe by a possible Soviet occupation. British and Americans used some of these for other purposes.
Ola Tunander -

A hundred years of patience

Anarchy in The UKR takes the reader on a dreamy journey from the revolution in 1917 to today's conflict in eastern Ukraine. 
Øystein Windstad -

Rich full-format MODERN TIMES including the supplement 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).

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