Digital overconsumption
TECHNOLOGY: The more I read in ‘Screen Damage,’ the stronger the guilt for the damage I must have caused my children. Children between zero and six should not be exposed to screens at all, according to the book.
In the desert landscape of speculation media
MEDIA: Surveys show that more than half of Germany’s population believe they receive fake news. In France, 80 percent believe the same.
‘Refolution!’
UPRISING: UPRISING / Asef Bayat attempts to challenge the analysis of the Arab Spring (2011) as an unequivocal defeat.
«I don’t think a single military conflict can solve a problem»
What does a radically tender society need?
HATE: Turkish-German Seyda Kurt is preoccupied with the concept of hatred as a catalyst for tenderness. Hatred often has its roots in racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and prejudice.
Nuclear war?
NUCLEAR: Are nuclear weapons suitable for coercing other countries – a coercive diplomacy? No, according to these authors.
To be a stranger in one’s own town
IRAQ: The Iraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has written an excellent book that dispels the typical view of a sectarian and divided society as the main cause of Iraq’s long and continuing tragedy.
Private game reserves – a business concept for species conservation
SOUTH AFRICA: Around 500 South African game reserves represent a spectacular marketplace. But after thirty years, Shamwari Private Game Reserve, for example, now has seven luxury lodges, an explorer camp, a learning centre, a rehabilitation station for young, abandoned or injured animals – and not least a police unit to combat poaching.
An anti-anti-racism
RACISM: A neo-conservative movement has made its virtue to ‘expose’ the political agenda of critical race theory.