Nietzsche
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Super Paradise
CONSUMERISM: Through apocryphal private archives forging nostalgia and conversations about the past and present, Super Paradise tells the story of a freedom oasis in Greece destroyed by cluelessness and greed, a tale that can be universally applied.
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Ethics for humanity to come
ETHICS: In the era of technology, the Western roots in Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions lose enchantment. Umberto Galimberti advocates for an ethics of aimless wandering, denouncing dominance and embracing a cosmopolitan, biocentric view that life on the earth is the measure of all things.
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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival announces 24th edition competition films
The three competition sections of the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival—International Competition, Newcomers Competition and >>Film Forward Competition—cast a critical and acute glance at the most heated issues of our times. The International Competition includes Ramin Bahrani’s 2nd Chance, which unfolds the spectacular and ambivalent story of the bulletproof vest’s inventor. In A House Made of…
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The masses and the people
PSYCHOLOGY: Is it possible to understand why the majority choose a leader or a slave-like existence?
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Intelligent care for a world in disorder
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.
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Save Europe from itself
Europe suffers from an unclear crisis: The forces that should unite us are absent, while the contradictions that should generate change are too vague. A philosophical diagnostic of Europe’s sickness is required in order to prepare a sound political struggle.
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A time for everything and nothing
When our faith in grand narratives erodes as our lives become increasingly hectic, time itself loses its direction and meaning.
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In the shadow of Godard
PETER GREENAWAY: ‘I have no particular desire to convey any “meaning”,’ film director Greenaway told me when I met him in Trondheim. ‘My films give me the opportunity to play with language, because language is far more interesting than the content,’ continued the 66-year-old Briton, having previously declared film to be dead. I am probably…
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Haakon Magnus – the philosopher king
On Monday, Se og Hør is celebrating its 20th anniversary, with a couple of thousand celebrities and readers setting off on a cruise aboard the SS ‘Norway’. Cruise manager Tande-P. is leading the trip to the neighbouring monarchy – England. The crowd around Se og Hør loves a royal party. Back when King Haakon reigned over…