A lingering life beyond rationality
PHILOSOPHY: Giorgio Agamben makes a loose juxtaposition between Goethe and Hölderlin, between madness and reason. Did the latter allow himself to be pushed to the psychological limit?
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The reality of capitalism and beyond
NEOLIBERALISM: Capitalist realism is a term for the late capitalist world where it is not possible to imagine a different and better one – it is what it is. Did neoliberal capital take the form of a wall-to-wall ideology, constituting an affective regime? And was the ‘end of history’ nothing more than a class project?
Bringing back Jesus, with an AR-15
RELIGION: Power, money, and religion intertwine as the influential US Christian fundamentalist movement fights for the end of the world.
The Chinese dream: «Our time has come»
GEOPOLITICS: Is the current systemic divide between the US and China insurmountable?
Chile’s «unpopular success story»
NEOLIBERALISM: Breaking The Brick plucks us into the heat of Chile’s social unrest, reliving the Chicago Boys’ contentious legacy.
The danger of modified nature
ECOLOGY: With technological measures moving in all directions, researchers are faced with sky-high challenges. One of them is human ignorance linked to its indifference.
An ever-creeping feeling of loneliness
ISOLATION: Daniel Schreiber visits a wealth of hermit literature – such as Thoreau’s Walden and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. But what does social withdrawal mean today?
The curse of colonial consumption
PROSTITUTION: How the Nigerian mafia is able to reach far into Europe to keep trafficked women in prostitution.
«With a blend of persistence, love, realism and boldness, Greek documentaries always find a unique way to tell their stories»
THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL: Ahead of the 24th edition, Modern Times Review spoke with the Director of the Greek Programme, Eleni Androutopoulou on this year’s homegrown productions, the place of Greek documentary within its wider landscape, and more.