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Global cloud capitalism

CAPITALISM: 'Techno-feudalism' is a global expansion with an omnivorous, boundless development of non-material phenomena. According to Yanis Varoufakis, social democracy can no longer make a difference here.
Henning Næss -

A mother’s life and passion: Anna Politkovskaya

RUSSIA: Anna Politkovskaya's daughter: "My greatest wish is to experience Russia as a thriving, free and developed country, not desolate, poor and militarised."
Ranveig Eckhoff -

Being in the opposing position

ŽIŽEK: Despite being a public intellectual for at least 30 years, there has been no previous discussion of Slavoj Žižek's thought as multifaceted and nuanced as the one we see in the current anthology. But does Žižek recognise the revolutionary potential of desire?
Ali Jones Alkazemi -

Have we as a civilisation met ourselves at the door?

IDENTITY: Do we all have some kind of doppelganger that expresses our most extreme thoughts and attitudes? In this book, Naomi Klein takes a special stand against her own people: the Jews.
Eva-Kristin Urestad Pedersen -

We can all be like Paul

PASOLINI: The apostle Paul shows the revolutionary power of fighting for a cause that defies the usual course of contemporary life. Paul becomes the symbol for creating a new reality and defeating hegemonic power. But can we imagine there is a Paul in Israel today?
Ali Jones Alkazemi -

Citizen journalists

GAZA: Sheikh Jarrah describes how the Israeli authorities subsequently sought to silence the journalists. Here is a topical book - in connection with the murdered journalists in Gaza. The democratic function of the media is not always so democratic.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

The military ambitions of oil states

WEAPONS: There are a number of developments in the three oil states of Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar, which Jean-Loup Samaan explores in his latest book. These are the three oil states that account for 17 percent of all arms purchases worldwide. Saudi Arabia wants to become a nuclear power in order to stand up to Iran.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

It is not possible to wipe out Hamas

HAMAS: Leila Seurat provides a good basis for understanding what went wrong on 7 October, when Hamas made a drastic change of course. The purpose of it all was to put the Palestinian cause back on the global agenda, and it has largely succeeded.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

Russia’s race to the bottom

RUSSIA: In this book, Alexander Etkind states that Russia is the least equal, the most militarised, and the most carbonised of all the world's major countries.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

When patriarchy and state violence go hand in hand

DEBT: Women are more vulnerable to aggressive lending methods, high interest rates, and fees.
Patricia Sequeira Brás -

A world not just of facts, but of possibilities

IDENTITY: Özge Baykan Calafato has collected a fascinating photo archive in the markets of antiquities and rarities of Istanbul. Through a selection of these photographs, she analyses the relation between population and state ideology during the emergence of the secular Turkish republic in the 1920s and 1930s
Nina Trige Andersen -

Digital overconsumption

TECHNOLOGY: The more I read in 'Screen Damage,' the stronger the guilt for the damage I must have caused my children. Children between zero and six should not be exposed to screens at all, according to the book.
Hanne Ramsdal -
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CAPITALISM / 'Techno-feudalism' is a global expansion with an omnivorous, boundless development of non-material phenomena. According to Yanis Varoufakis, social democracy can no longer make a difference here.

Techno Feudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Author: Yanis Varoufakis
Publisher: Bodley Head, UK

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