Weird scenes inside the streets and favelas of a South American city
ART: A dreamlike celebration of street art and protest in the heart of Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s 6th largest city.
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Germany’s soft glove of public relations
POLITICS: A close look at the communication strategies of four MPs from the right-wing populist party AfD.
The «good old days» myth
TECH: As society suffers from increased digital anxiety and ecological collapse, Big Tech continues to push its nostalgia-based feedback loop of utopian myth.
The three ecologies
CLIMATE: What connects the city of Siracusa with the UN and a French philosopher?
The enemy knows the system
TECHNOLOGY: Manipulation of ideas, people, and influences after the attention economy.
Neither the sea nor the sand
SOCIETY: With a country and neighbourhood changing in strange and scary ways, residents of Venice Beach, California express their views of the world.
On the dark side of truth
MEDIA: The struggle for truth – and thus for documentary – has become brutal. A new book analyzes how truth claims and digital culture shape our political realities.
Karel Vachek: Films just have to make you laugh!
Director Karel Vachek just died, so we publish this interview. Fifty years after Prague Spring and thirty years after the Velvet Revolution, he looked back on the evolution of our society and predicts a transformation to direct democracy.
Words matter
TRUMPISM: A guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from the tumultuous Donald Trump presidency.
Factory farming filth
FARMING: The filth and falsification at the heart of the factory farming system – responsible for up to 50 percent of the world’s climate change – is revealed.
When society is antisocial, who calls it out?
CLIMATE: Since her solitary protest outside Swedish parliament, Greta Thunberg now leads a global movement on the climate change crisis.
To send a message
SURVEILLANCE: US authorities are gunning for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in an attempt to scare other whistleblowers, German TV documentary claims.