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08.02.2012
Jonathan Metzger

We are not alone in the universe

A new type of political ecology may lend the Left a broad political platform. But we must first acknowledge wills that are not human. Jonathan Metzger explains why "more-than-humanism" calls for a complete rethink in policy, planning and the law. [ more ]

08.02.2012
Eurozine Review

Naive, the hawks would say

08.02.2012
Berthold Franke

Anger at Kohl

03.02.2012
Daniel Daianu

Markets and society


New Issues


08.02.2012

Merkur | 2/2012

07.02.2012

Springerin | 1/2012

Bon Travail
07.02.2012

L'Homme | 2/2011

Geld-Subjekte
07.02.2012

Res Publica Nowa | 16 (2011)

The tyranny of opinion
07.02.2012

Arena | 1/2012

På apornas planet [On the planet of the apes]

Eurozine Review


08.02.2012
Eurozine Review

Naive, the hawks would say

"Ny Tid" says that only diplomacy can defuse the Iranian bomb; "NAQD" warns that the Arab revolutions are not as feminist as the West thinks; "Blätter" wants an enquiry into institutional racism in Germany; "Letras Libres" pays its respects to a rare revolutionary; "Arena" asks the bane of the Norwegian far-Right to explain Breivik; "Res Publica Nowa" struggles for objectivity amidst the tyranny of opinion; "Merkur" is still angry with Kohl; Springerin observes how artists lead the market when it comes to precarity; "L'Homme" finds that international development begins in the home; and "Vikerkaar" reads 150 years of Estonian thanatography.

25.01.2012
Eurozine Review

The organized upperworld

11.01.2012
Eurozine Review

A new way to talk politics

21.12.2011
Eurozine Review

"Transparency" in scare quotes

07.12.2011
Eurozine Review

Itching powder for the Left



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Heiner Flassbeck

Panic in the financial casino

Self-regulation by the market has turned out to be an illusion: what's needed now is more governmental regulation of financial markets along with caps on managerial salaries, writes Heiner Flassbeck. [more]

19.03.2009


Ieva Lesinska, Christopher Ricks

A lesson in Dylan appreciation

When Christopher Ricks, author of critical works on Milton, Keats, and Eliot, turned his attention to Bob Dylan, critics grumbled that he could talk one into believing that even a phone book is poetry. Now that Dylan has won the Pulitzer Prize, they may have to reconsider. [more]

11.04.2008


Tim Ochser

What is "it"?

Ever since Nike exhorted us to "Just do it!", the third person pronoun has been the vessel for a whole range of cultural suggestions. Tim Ochser finds that "it" is not all that it seems. [more]

08.09.2006


Uldis Tirons

I come to you from my solitude

Uldis Tirons on the legendary Georgian philosopher Merab Mamardashvili, whom the Cheka once called "the freest man in the country". [more]

22.06.2006


Tim Ochser

I don't love hockey and hockey doesn't love me

"Sport's primitive allure provides a rare and necessary outlet for people desperate to rally behind a cause other than making a living", writes Tim Ochser, unimpressed by the spectacle of the Ice Hockey World Championships in Riga. [more]

14.06.2006


Jason Potter

Born into "white air and waiting"

Charles "Hank" Bukowski 1920-1994

Philosopher Jason Potter is surprised to discover something like admiration for poetry's most (in)famous hardman. [more]

02.06.2006


Andrej Dynko

Sacrificial therapy

Letter from a prison in Minsk

"Being imprisoned feels like being pregnant: it's worrying at the beginning and at the end." Andrej Dynko, Belarusian opposition journalist and editor, spent ten days in prison last year on "hooliganism" charges. His prison diary has won him the Lorenzo Natali European Commission Prize for journalists writing on human rights issues. [more]

13.06.2007


Jason Potter

Thinking in Latvia

The question "Why do you go to Latvia so often?" triggers American philosopher Jason Potter to reflect upon his motives. His answer: "I come to Latvia to think." But what is it about Latvia that makes it so congenial to thinking? [more]

25.04.2006


Milorad Pavic, Ilmars Slapins

The world from the viewpoint of Milorad Pavic

The author of Dictionary of the Khazars explains how he has been writing for some 200 years, why he has come to despise all pens, and how he sees the world. [more]

05.04.2006


Carolin Emcke, Margarita Zieda

Letters to friends

Spiegel journalist Carolin Emcke thought that level-headed reporting made newspaper readers engage with the events of war. Until she realized that letters to friends elicited far stronger identification. [more]

17.03.2006


Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

You OK?

A letter to Riga from the San Francisco Bay

For a European academic in California, the ubiquitous question "You OK?" typifies a self-help culture in which everybody becomes a therapist searching for a patient. [more]

10.03.2006


Tim Ochser

Stuck in traffic

Calling sex trafficking "modern-day slavery" is all too easy, says Tim Ochser, who helped a British film crew make a documentary on the issue in Latvia. [more]

21.02.2006


Imants Lancmanis

The heritage of Madame Sevigny

Epistolary style and conversation in France

The letters of Madame Sevigny epitomized the seventeenth-century "salon" style, deplored by Stendhal as affected and pretentious, and inaugurated a literary genre. [more]

05.12.2005


Pauls Bankovskis

The joy of small places

For Latvians, the joy in finding themselves in a work of international literature often outweighs any offence at being portrayed as troublemakers and hangers-on. As long as authors get their facts right, that is. [more]

30.11.2005


Harold Bloom, Ieva Lesinska

Breakfast with brontosaurus

An interview with Harold Bloom

"Partly from encountering wisdom, I have to say I have no wisdom." American literary critic Harold Bloom talks to Latvian journal Rigas Laiks about his twenty-ninth book, Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? [more]

07.10.2005


Tim Ochser

One or two words on the sticky subject of pornography

Confronted with amateur pornography, Tim Ochser finds he has eyes only for the home furnishings. How life has become a "grotesque parody" of pornography. [more]

23.08.2005


Vita Matiss, Tzvetan Todorov

Memory of evil, enticement to good

An interview with Tzvetan Todorov

In France, communism has positive associations with the Resistance movement. Not so for eastern Europeans, who must bring their own experiences to bear in the European discussion, says the Bulgarian philosopher. [more]

05.11.2007


Tim Ochser

The sad story of how "K" became "C"

Plastic ferns, ABBA, and intoxicated Russians: on the seedy charms of the old-fashioned Latvian kafejnica. [more]

05.08.2005


Agnese Gaile

A million for a minute

Stories about the guru of psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), and his daughter, Judith Miller. [more]

13.07.2005


Jason Potter

Letter from home

On the way Americans see themselves -- with feelings of solitude, dissatisfaction, and confusion. [more]

20.06.2005


Uldis Tirons

The archipelago sunk in memory

Anne Applebaum's book on the history of the Gulag invites one to reflect on the meaning of emptiness: in history and in one's head. [more]

04.01.2005


Tim Ochser

In the labyrinth

A Riga suburb called Zolitude makes Tim Ochser reflect on the philosophical realities of a life in the labyrinth. [more]

04.01.2005


 

Articles published in the partner section


Arnis Ritups, Robert Thurman

The quantum absence of the nose

Robert Tenzing Thurman speaks to Arnis Ritups

American Buddhist and father of Uma Thurman talks about his views of enlightenment. [more]

16.11.2005


 

Focal points     click for more

The EU: Broken or just broke?

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/eurocrisis.html
Brought on by the global economic recession, the eurocrisis has been exacerbated by serious faults built into the monetary union. In a new Eurozine focal point, contributors discuss whether the EU is not only broke, but also broken -- and if so, whether Europe's leaders are up to the task of fixing it. [more]

European histories (2): Concord and conflict

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/eurohistories2.html
Broadening the question of a common European narrative beyond the East-West divide. How are contested interpretations of historical and recent events activated in the present, uniting and dividing European societies? [more]

Changing media -- Media in change

Media change is about more than just the "newspaper crisis" and the iPad: property law, privacy, free speech and the functioning of the public sphere are all affected. On a field experiencing profound and constant transformation. [more]

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Editor's choice     click for more

Katajun Amirpur
Islam and democracy
The history of an approximation

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In Iran, official revolutionary dogma has obliged "post-Islamist" philosophers to provide profound justifications for Islam's compatibility with democracy. Katajun Amirpur puts contemporary Iranian thinking on religion and politics in the context of Khomeini-era anti-westernism. [more]

Per Wirten
Where were you when Europe fell apart?

Too many Europeans have too long avoided the question of Europe, says Swedish writer Per Wirten. To prevent the EU from turning into a "post-democratic regime of bureaucrats", intellectuals need to stop mumbling and take the fear of Europe seriously. [more]

Valeriu Nicolae
Change must start from within
Roma integration: EU rhetoric and institutional reality

European member states are answerable to the European Commission regarding the integration of Roma. But what are the chances of national policies succeeding if structural anti-Roma racism exists within European institutions themselves? [more]

Debate series     click for more

Europe talks to Europe

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/europetalkstoeurope.html
Nationalism in Belgium might be different from nationalism in Ukraine, but if we want to understand the current European crisis and how to overcome it we need to take both into account. The debate series "Europe talks to Europe" is an attempt to turn European intellectual debate into a two-way street. [more]

Literature     click for more

Steve Sem-Sandberg
Even nameless horrors must be named

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-09-23-semsandberg-en.html
It is high time to lift the aesthetic state of emergency that has surrounded witness literature for so long, writes Steve Sem-Sandberg. It is not important who writes, nor even what their motives are. What counts is the "literary efficiency". [more]

Literary perspectives
The re-transnationalization of literary criticism

Eurozine's series of essays aims to provide an overview of diverse literary landscapes in Europe. Covered so far: Croatia, Sweden, Austria, Estonia, Ukraine, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Hungary. [more]

Behind the headlines     click for more

Mykola Riabchuk
Tymoshenko: Wake-up call for the EU

The EU shouldn't be surprised by the Tymoshenko verdict: its support of anything nominally reformist has been perceived as acceptance of a range of repressions, argues Mykola Riabchuk. [more]

Conferences     click for more

Eurozine emerged from an informal network dating back to 1983. Since then, European cultural magazines have met annually in European cities to exchange ideas and experiences. Around 100 journals from almost every European country are now regularly involved in these meetings.
Changing media, Media in change
The 23rd European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Linz, 13-16 May 2011

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/linz2011.html
The 23rd European Meeting of Cultural Journals took place in Linz, Austria, in May 2011. Under the heading "Changing media, Media in change", the conference explored the challenges and transformations facing media in the wake of the digital revolution. [more]

Multimedia     click for more

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/multimedia.html
Multimedia section including videos of past Eurozine conferences in Vilnius (2009) and Sibiu (2007). [more]


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