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Back in the ghetto
The Israeli Right nurtures the image of the nation of Israel as a bastion under eternal siege but fails to see that Israel is laying siege to the Palestinians. The window of opportunity opened by the Oslo agreement has been closed for good, fears Göran Rosenberg. [Italian version added] [more]
Revolutionary elites, pragmatic masses
The Polish Populists' pyrrhic victory
The new Polish elite feels it has no control over the processes for which it bears political responsibility. Only now is it understanding that European integration and globalization have put limits on its power. [Danish version added] [more]
Blogging, the nihilist impulse
Media theorist and Internet activist Geert Lovink formulates a theory of weblogs that goes beyond the usual rhetoric of citizen journalism. [Italian and Swedish versions added] [more]
Neighbourhoods
Opening address at the 18th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
For Orhan Pamuk, "neighbourhood" implies openness to neighbouring cultures but also provincial mistrust. Cultural journals' role, he says, should be to encourage non-conformity. [French and German versions added] [more]
Must we respect religiosity?
On questions of faith and the pride of the secular society
Secular society's "supermarket of faiths" principle appears from religion's standpoint to be indifferent and mistaken. Jan Philipp Reemtsma searches for the basis for the respect between believer and non-believer that can prevent this tension from becoming intolerance. [more]
The Muslim woman
The power of images and the danger of pity
Western feminists who speak on behalf of "oppressed" Muslim women assume that individual desire and social convention are inherently at odds. But veiling should not be confused with a lack of agency or even traditionalism. [more]
New towns on the Cold War frontier
How modern urban planning was exported as an instrument in the battle for the developing world
The New Towns designed by Constantinos Doxiadis were supposed to inculcate democracy in the Developing World. Today, these urban neighbourhoods have become something quite different to what the architect anticipated: Baghdad's Sadr City being a striking example. [German version added] [more]
My heart belongs to Europe. Therefore it is broken
Does literature help maintain individual and collective identity, or does it inspire us to discredit it? [more]
Europæisk underlægningsmusik
Østeuropa, randområderne og den fortsatte udvidelse spiller en langte større rolle end et par nejer i Frankrig og Holland -- et stykke europæisk underlægningsmusik. [more]