An interview with Axel Honneth Axel Honneth The more publicly governments articulate their difficulties in controlling the pandemic, the greater its democratic potential, argues Axel Honneth. But if people …
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The anatomy of Zoom fatigue
Geert Lovink Covid has flooded our lives with online encounters and interactions. We work, minding our image on screen, or struggle to socialise in a hall of mirrors. Geert …
We need to stop the data economy, before humanity pays the ultimate price
If you’ve watched Netflix’s documentary The Social Dilemma, you’ll know that it paints a terrifying – and accurate – picture of the damage that digital technology is causing to individuals …
Will America tear itself apart? Inside a looming constitutional crisis
Edward Luce At the start of each school year, Rosa Brooks asks her freshmen what they think of the Constitution of the United States. Almost everyone is proud that at …
Who is afraid of the votes from overseas Czechs?
Petr Bísek Last week, I drew up my ballot paper for the November US presidential election. Yes, I voted for the US by correspondence. And it was easier than …
Fake global history in the age of fake news
Cornell Fleischer Cemal Kafadar Sanjay Subrahmanyam Awareness of Islamic history may need significantly more attention in the US but not by falsely glorifying the achievements of an Ottoman sultan. Reinforcing …
COVID-19, Authoritarianism Vs. Democracy: What the Epidemic Reveals about the Orientalism of our Categories of Thought
Is democracy or authoritarianism the best regime against coronavirus? Eugénie Mérieau During the first weeks of February 2020, the very existence of the epidemic was analyzed as deriving almost mechanically …
Watching the watchmen
Kaya Genç New powers granted to the ‘bekçi’ – Turkey’s auxiliary police force – have led to a spate of violent confrontations, releasing traumatic memories of the military coup forty …
Deserted amusement parks
How COVID-19 burst Italy’s tourism bubble Alessio Giussani Italian cities are ordinarily international tourism hotspots. Their economic recovery post-lockdown appears to depend on visitor numbers. And yet massified tourism …
The CoV crisis: Imagination vs. facts. A neuropsychological interpretation of the trap which we created
MUDr. Martin Jan Stránský, MD, FACP Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine specializing in functional neurology and neurophilosophy The CoV situation is the perfect metaphor of …
Exile, dignity and love
An Istanbul story Ayşe Kadıoğlu Russian refugees influenced Istanbul’s cultural life from the 1920s despite the Turkification policies of the new republic. The Sevastopol-born sculptor Iraida Barry’s life in exile …
For a Belarusian res publica!
Osteuropa Olga Shparaga The nationalist opposition in Belarus has been marginalized, argues Coordinating Council member Olga Shparaga. National heroes and vertical power structures no longer have popular appeal. The focus …
Paradise lost?
Vlasta Kordová The removal in April of the monument to Red Army general Ivan Konev in Prague and the rehabilitation of the collaborationist Russian Liberation Army is typical of the …
Belarus: Status quo at what price?
Osteuropa Astrid Sahm After 26 years of rule, the autocrat Alyaksandr Lukashenka has lost the support of the Belarusian people. Even if the regime is able to stay in control, …
Enter the people!
Artur Klinaŭ Osteuropa Events in Belarus have departed radically from the script. Putin may have been gambling on a destabilized Lukashenka, but not on a full-blown national uprising, speculates …
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