3/2005
Big Brother goes global

As the ideological frenzy of modernism gives way to "content management systems", and as global megacities render the urban grid and its certainties obsolete, societies of discipline become societies of control. Daniel Miller cracks open the password protected "post-city". [ more ]
"Mute" navigates the mediarchipelago; "Osteuropa" locates Khodorkovsky's Rubicon; "Samtiden" warns a species headed for self-destruction; "Ny Tid" goes gender neutral; "Dilema veche" considers fast-food religion and other less fashionable phenomena; "Vikerkaar" recommends social democracy as antidote to Estonia-ization; "Arche" has seen Lukashenka's economic policy somewhere before; "Revista Crítica" uses biography for empowerment; and "Ord&Bild" measures the distance between us and the living.

Green turnaround or business as usual in the global hothouse? Debating the politics of climate change. [more]
From the cartoon crisis and minaret ban to the multiculturalism debate: on the politics of post-secular Europe. [more]
European solidarity requires a common history that accommodates the experiences of East and West. [more]
"They have turned my book into another chapter of this fruitless debate." Jytte Klausen on her part in the cartoon crisis. [more]
From postmodernism to network culture. Kazys Varnelis on what that means for the democratic public sphere. [more]
Kafka's home city has a lot to hide; unpleasant truths about Prague are bad for business, writes James Hawes. [more]
In the twenty years since the fall of communism, literature has been lifting the fog settled over eastern central Europe. [more]
Eurozine's series of essays aims to provide an overview of diverse literary landscapes in Europe. Covered as yet: Croatia, Sweden, Austria, Estonia, Ukraine, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Hungary. [more]
Statement on "the arrogant self-justification of the collective massacre in Srebrenica", first published in 2005. [more]
Multimedia section including videos of past Eurozine conferences in Vilnius (2009) and Sibiu (2007). [more]