Books

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

  • Two Centuries of Silence

    A: Where are you from? B: Iran A: So you speak Arabic? B: No, we speak Farsi. Iranians are not Arab. We are Persian.

  • The unpleasant truth

    AFRICA: For those who want to understand the political complexity of sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Artificial Intelligence-proof jobs

    Apparently, the machines are coming for our jobs.

  • The Dream Island of Modernity

    This year, Sir Thomas More’s Utopia marks its 500th anniversary. Modern Times takes this opportunity to celebrate this, still radical, great piece of work.

  • A Communist Manifesto

    Is Karl Marx still able to show us the way forward - some 168 years after his book was initially published?

  • A Return To Utopia

    With a moniker like ‘Modern Times’, it feels natural for us to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, published in 1516.

  • Dispatches from Moments of Calm

    An insightful eye-opener for history as something more than linear progress

  • Riots instead of strikes

    Riot is the modern reaction to capitalism, in the same way strikes were in the past.

  • The female orgasm – what is it good for?

    Peter Sloterdijk has written an important novel at a time where biological explanations for human actions have become the norm.

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