How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold: Tale of a Redemption
PHILOSOPHY: The redemption of Nietzsche’s philosophy post-WWII, as Italian scholars rehabilitate his ideas and influence in the face of Nazi distortion.
Gilles Deleuze
Death – more or less real
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.
Afropessimism, Afrofuturism, and Afropolitanism
AFRICA: For capitalists, disruption opens the door to new power and new revenues: People, society and nature are reduced to raw material. Author Achille Mbembe’s horizon is always the broadest possible – the cosmic, earth-historical, and planetary. Despite all the harrowing problems, Africa is conjured up as a vibrant world centre that still has power in reserve, teeming with wildlife, and a wealth of cultures.
ChatGPT – an impersonal paradigm shift?
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Is it only now that, with new technology such as ChatGPT, individualism is about to change?
At the border of art and anthropology
Anthropology: On a new, participatory, inclusive artistic anthropology.
Crossing the Mexico-US border as a touristic game
CAPITALISM: Sometimes the value of a documentary insists on documenting its makeup and fragile circumstances.
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 art of disappearing
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.
The masses and the people
PSYCHOLOGY: Is it possible to understand why the majority choose a leader or a slave-like existence?