A woman’s struggle with reality
WOMEN OF EUROPE: Sweden’s former Foreign and Vice Prime Minister Margot Wallström believes we currently live in a world of autocrats, where Nordic welfare values have poor conditions.
Social media
The dark art of politics
CONTROL: Intersecting power, truth, and myth through Finnish hypnotist Olavi Hakasalo.
Promoting social connection
MEDIA: Hacked Transmissions is a timely analysis of the capacity of media to foster social connection.
Freedom of expression, extremism, and the role of the media
INEQUALITY: An anthology that addresses important topics such as freedom of expression, globalisation, extremism, minorities, and inequality in the world, but many of the authors try to tackle too much.
Dingseveldet – The gadgets in the online stores
MULTIPLICITY: Can a gadget materialism reconstruct a collective societal thought?
The making of AURORA
Once Aurora paints a picture of an industry of men intent on using the young Norwegian artist AURORA as a tool to further their own ambitions more than to nurture her own creative independence.
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.
Day-to-day life amongst a pro-Russian battalion in Ukraine
Their Own Republic by Russian director Aliona Polunina caused quite a fury at this year‘s Doclisboa due to its pro-Russian stance. The documentary nonetheless offers an interesting insight into the side of the Ukrainian conflict rarely portrayed in western media.
Sweeping up the internet
The «cleaners» of global social media platforms live in harsh societies and conditions of comparative clutter to those after whom they are cleaning up.
Free markets are an illusion
CAPITALISM: John Mikler argues that the world’s largest companies are economically superior to their competitors to such an extent it is wrong to speak of free competition.