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The enemy within
Roma, the media and hate speech
Despite European Union legislation on the subject, Europe's Roma remain the victim of discrimination and abuse. In Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary, not to mention Italy, it is the media that more often than not instigate the witch hunts. [Slovenian version added] [more]
In praise of hybridity
Cultural globalization is not the transplantation of western ideas and technologies across the planet, but the adaptation of these according to local requirements, writes Ales Debeljak. Hybridity, the product of a longue durée, is at the heart of the western paradigm. [Hungarian version added] [more]
Battlefield Europe
Transnational commemoration and European identity
A pan-European memory cannot be reduced to the Holocaust and the Gulag alone, no matter how central these are, and must be able to compare memories without offsetting each against the other. On the "concentric circles" of European memory. [more]
The society of the query and the Googlization of our lives
A tribute to Joseph Weizenbaum
"There is only one way to turn signals into information: through interpretation", wrote the computer critic Joseph Weizenbaum. As Google's hegemony over online content increases, argues Geert Lovink, we should stop searching and start questioning. [more]
The non-efficient citizen
Identity and consumerist morality
Consumerism grounded in indebtedness means financial dependence as opposed to democratic freedom. In the consumerist system, the individual who asserts him or herself through authentic freedom is regarded as a non-efficient citizen. [more]
What does Nietzsche mean to philosophers today?
Excessively sensitive, anti-liberal, and irrelevant, or radical, prescient, and misunderstood? Six philosophers answer Kritika&Kontext's questions on Nietzsche. Their responses make one thing clear: Nietzsche still divides opinion. [more]
Acting up
When "stand-up philosopher" Slavoj Zizek calls for "repeating Lenin" or praises Robespierre's defence of terror, some observers might be tempted to ask whether his entire intellectual oeuvre is not just some kind of act. No, says John Clark. "It's not just a pose; it's a position." [more]
Portrait of a moment in the life of a nation
A decade and a half after Slovenia's declaration of independence and three years after EU accession, political and cultural life in the country is stagnating, writes Peter Rak. A moderate sense of national spirit and collective self-love may be the only way forward. [more]
Peripheries and borders in a post-western Europe
Europe is taking not just a post-national but also a post-western shape. The relation between the inside and the outside is complex and ambivalent; while often exclusionary, the periphery can also be viewed as the site of cosmopolitan forms of negotiation. [more]
Democracy and philosophy
Moral insight "is a matter of imagining a better future, and observing the results of attempts to bring that future into existence". In "Kritika&Kontext", Richard Rorty (1931-2007) outlines the anti-foundationalist premise of his philosophy. [more]
The afternoon of a pragmatist faun
Richard Rorty (1931-2007)
In a non-philosophical age, Richard Rorty offered a fast and easy solution to a fundamental philosophical question. Rorty's critique of universalism constituted a liberation but left no alternative to moral ethnocentrism. [more]
Freedom of expression and its limits
The principle of absolute freedom of expression is always qualified by tacit agreements within societies on what can and cannot be said. [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 a religious standpoint to be indifferent and mistaken. On the basis for the respect between believer and non-believer that can prevent this tension becoming intolerance. [more]
Spirit and the end of art
Has the end of art arrived? Norman Lillegard reflects on philosophical thoughts about art and searches for the spirit in it. [more]
After the siege
A visit to Sarajevo reveals that the heroes of the siege from 1992 to 1995 have yet to be rewarded with ordinary life. [more]
Gained in translation
What is the translator's job? To bring the text to the reader or the reader to the text? And either way, do translators receive the credit they deserve? [more]
Collective suicide or globalization from below?
After the war in Iraq, a new voice for peace must come from the NGOs. [more]
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