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The allurements of space

The architect and writer Fred Scharmen has written a well-thought-out book about living in space – which so far we only do on...
Anders Dunk -

A contemporary diagnosis – without the ability to criticize?

ART: Is there no longer anything of revealing or distorting?
Mikkel Bolt -

The capitalist world of images

PHOTO: Is it possible that anti-capitalist expressions are reduced to insignificant gestures and instead become symbols of the immediate consumption of social media?
Patricia Sequeira Brás -

A shaky diagnosis of a disillusioned youth

DIAGNOSIS: Does hope lead to disappointment and desperation to terror? With Alain Bertho, we can talk about a presentism, ie a lasting present, without past or future.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

Now the robots may no longer be called Frankenstein or R2D2, but Siri, Alexa, AlphaGo or Yaskawa Motoman

GROWTH: Through "creative destruction" and technological disruption, capitalism created the conditions for a new cycle of economic growth. But now the trend seems to continue towards zero. Is it a vicious circle of global competition, falling prices, overcapacity, technological inertia (rather than innovation) and falling incentives to invest – which is the cause of capitalism's protracted crisis?
Dominique Routhier -

Aesthetic studies of state violence

POWER: The investigative rather than critical practice, characterizes a new generation of journalists, artists and NGOs. They process large datasets in order to point out abuses. Like the poison gas attack in Syria, or American secret prisons.
Mikkel Bolt -

To make the order in order

ARCHITECTURE: How can we design big cities where we can be more alone together?
Pinar Ciftci -

Will-to-not-want-to-know

ECOLOGY: Will we succumb to the temptation to want ignorance? The eco-revolution must either be global or it is nothing.
Niels Johan Juhl-Nielsen -

After corona – a technocratic, planetary order

COVID-19: It is difficult to read Bratton's positive biopolitics as anything other than a form of technocratic authoritarianism – where the subject is a point in a biopolitical network.
Mikkel Bolt -

When public welfare becomes dependent on charity

CARE: The UK is increasingly dependent on the efforts of volunteers to provide citizens with a minimum of care while public services are suffering from budget cuts and crises.
Patricia Sequeira Brás -

Obedience in a corona time

Philosophy:  Why, where, when and for how long are we obedient?
Pinar Ciftci -

How do you "stay home" if you do not have a home?

Pandemic: Even during the pandemic, we maintain our status quo; the privileged remain privileged, and the others remain outside society.
Pinar Ciftci -

Protest can cost you your life

HONDURAS: Nina Lakhani's dangerous search for the truth behind the murder of environmental activist Berta Cáceres ends up in more questions than answers.
Pinar Ciftci -

Russia without Putin

RUSSIA: One day Putin will leave the Kremlin – but that will not change anything, writes Tony Wood in his book on power and continuity in today's Russia, in which he attacks several well-known myths.
Nick Holdsworth -

Worthy and unworthy lives

SIMILARITY: In The Force of Nonviolence, Judith Butler writes that systematic discrimination is the main cause of all violence.
Pinar Ciftci -

High-tech communist luxury and freedom for all

AUTOMATED: As a whole, 60 percent of our meat consumption in 2040 will come from animal-free meat.
Mats Andreas Nielsen -
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