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In the desert landscape of speculation media

MEDIA: Surveys show that more than half of Germany's population believe they receive fake news. In France, 80 percent believe the same.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

‘Refolution!’

UPRISING: UPRISING / Asef Bayat attempts to challenge the analysis of the Arab Spring (2011) as an unequivocal defeat.
Mikkel Bolt -

What does a radically tender society need?

HATE: Turkish-German Seyda Kurt is preoccupied with the concept of hatred as a catalyst for tenderness. Hatred often has its roots in racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and prejudice.
Pinar Ciftci -

Nuclear war?

NUCLEAR: Are nuclear weapons suitable for coercing other countries - a coercive diplomacy? No, according to these authors.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

To be a stranger in one’s own town

IRAQ: The Iraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has written an excellent book that dispels the typical view of a sectarian and divided society as the main cause of Iraq's long and continuing tragedy.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

An anti-anti-racism

RACISM: A neo-conservative movement has made its virtue to 'expose' the political agenda of critical race theory.
Magnus Andersen -

Russia’s Africa Policy

AFRICA: Russia has been very committed to the principle of non-interference and allowed authoritarian regimes to conduct their own politics without setting any political demands for their trade or aid. But they forgave debts to several African countries while signing several military-technical agreements.
Ketil Fred Hansen -

A lingering life beyond rationality

PHILOSOPHY: Giorgio Agamben makes a loose juxtaposition between Goethe and Hölderlin, between madness and reason. Did the latter allow himself to be pushed to the psychological limit?
Henning Næss -

Is anyone listening?

ANTHROPOLOGY:A study revealing that systematic torture is part of contemporary democracies
Melita Zajc -

The reality of capitalism and beyond

NEOLIBERALISM: Capitalist realism is a term for the late capitalist world where it is not possible to imagine a different and better one - it is what it is. Did neoliberal capital take the form of a wall-to-wall ideology, constituting an affective regime? And was the 'end of history' nothing more than a class project?
Mikkel Bolt -

The end – and beginning – of history

ALBANIA: The country's transformation was fraught with difficulties. On the altar of freedom, factories went bankrupt, jobs disappeared, and thousands fled to Italy on overcrowded ships.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

What tricks does the Catholic right have to define itself as the centre of Europe

THE WEST: European culture is «characterized by a melancholic feeling due to its alienation or inferiority towards a source that evokes a nostalgic feeling.» Really?
Eivind Tjoenneland -
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MEDIA / Surveys show that more than half of Germany's population believe they receive fake news. In France, 80 percent believe the same.

Die Kunst des Miteinander-Redens. Über den Dialog in Gesellschaft und Politik
Author: Bernhard Pörksen Friedemann Schulz von Thun Carl
Publisher: Hanser Verlag, Germany

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