REALITY: We perceive reality very differently. So let me suggest three areas where reality is real, strong and direct for all of us. But also about what a newly translated book by Pier Paolo Pasolini says about film’s contact with reality.
DEATH: When the Mediterranean rejects the nameless, who restores their dignity?
DEATH: A nostalgic love letter for the irreversible passing of time by one of the key figures in American independent documentary.
CINEMA: Four films and two books – can they capture something about this newly dead legend of cinema? Let me try, especially with Godard’s intellectual autobiography and two new films about him.
HEALTHCARE: Without hospital roboticism, people would die much sooner. Then again, with it, they seem to die inhumanely
PHILOSOPHY: Our editor Truls Lie has interviewed Jean Baudrillard earlier in Oslo – and since a lot have asked for access, we have republished it and a video here.
HYDRA: Axel Jensen, Marianne Ihlen and Leonard Cohen in a new perspective. Polly Sampson’s new book is a feminist correction of mythologized authors.
DEATH: The job of handling the dead is mainly about dealing with the living.
PHILOSOPHY: The central argument in The Neganthropocene is that the world is at risk of lapsing into a nihilistic state, as our failure to care for it becomes ever more manifest. But the challenge Stiegler takes upon himself is to show the way to an alternative anthropology.
Forensically detailed catalogue of state-sponsored killings paints a dark picture of the life and death for poor, black youngsters in Rio’s sprawling shanty-towns.
This is where we are all headed. With a background of beeping hospital monitors and oxygen pumps, End of Life is a caring, charming and at times poignant demystification of the death process.
