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The allurements of space

Fred Scharmen: Space Forces – A Critical History of Life in Outer Space

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Anders Dunk -

A contemporary diagnosis – without the ability to criticize?

Hal Foster: What Comes after Farce: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle

ART: Is there no longer anything to reveal or distort?
Mikkel Bolt -

Aesthetic studies of state violence

Eyal Weizman & Matthew Fuller: Investigative Aesthetics

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

Pablo Sendra, Richard Sennett: Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City

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

Will-to-not-want-to-know

Kristian Cedervall Lauta, Slavoy Žižek, Andreas Malm: Disasters, Pandemic! 2, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergencies

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

Benjamin Bratton: The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World

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 -

Obedience in a corona time

Frédéric Gros: Disobey! A Philosophy of Resistance

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?

Jessie Kindig, Mark Krotov, Marco Roth: There Is No Outside – Covid 19 Dispatches

pandemic: Even during the pandemic, we maintain our status quo; the privileged remain privileged, and the others remain outside society.
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Protest can cost you your life

Nina Lakhani: Who Killed Berta Cáceres?

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 -

High-tech communist luxury and freedom for all

Aaron Bastani: Fully Automated Luxury Communism (FALC)

: AUTOMATED: As much as 60 percent of our meat consumption in 2040 will come from animal-free meat.
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A perpetual growth curve of incessant technological innovation from Tesla's Elon Musk, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and a host of other tech moguls

James Bridle: New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

: Critical settlement with the belief that technology can solve all of humanity's problems in the artist and theorist James Bridal's new book.
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Space Forces – A Critical History of Life in Outer Space
Forfatter: Fred Scharmen
Forlag: Verso (USA)


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