Books

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

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Is anyone listening?

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

  • 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 -…

  • 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…

  • 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.»…

  • When the world is really on fire

    EU: Europe never became an adult or responsible player in a multipolar world. A common foreign and security policy has never gone beyond the…

  • A logical consequence of the Cold War?

    RUSSIA: M.E. Sarotte demonstrates thorough knowledge of the Cold War – and today's horrific continuation of it.

  • The long farewell to parents

    AGEING: More people are getting older, but there are fewer to take care of them.

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