Books

Book reviews (non-fiction literature about media, public, big tech and film).

  • She could be Italy’s next prime minister

    ITALY: «I'm a woman, I'm a Christian, I'm a mother, I'm Italian, I'm on the right, I'm Giorgia.» A book devoid of political analysis?

  • «… Who steals, rapes, plunders, tortures and kills»

    FRANCE: After a number of «not a day without» statements, the French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour's conclusion is that the country is about to…

  • An endemic state of distraction

    TECHNOLOGY: How society's increased lack of attention has been imposed on us by powerful external forces.

  • 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.

  • A place everyone wants to see, but no one wants to protect

    VENICE: The high tide is man-made, as are the large technical river barriers, which are also described as a giant scam.

  • The hangover of colonialism

    AFRICA: What is civilization? What is belonging? How much can a human being endure? Who are the wild? The heartless?

  • Which African intellectuals…

    AFRICA: Inspired by both Bakhtin and Foucault, Stephen Chan presents Achille Mbembe's analysis of the African state in an understandable way. But let's also…

  • Unpacking the reality of interconnectedness

    SOCIETY: I am because you are – a book that offers a coherent and integrated worldview based on interconnectedness

  • Save Julian Assange to save democracy

    JUSTICE: With the US appeal on extradition ongoing, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange continues to face abuses and irregularities in nothing less than the fight…

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