http://www.eurozine.com Eurozine - the netmagazine publishes original texts on the most pressing issues of our times. We also present articles and reviews published in our partner magazines. The articles are available in several languages to open up a new public sphere for communication and debate. en netmagazine, articles and reviews Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 http://www.eurozine.com/bravenewworld/RSS-Feed.html publick.net feed me ch.fredriksson@eurozine.com office@eurozine.com http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-02-08-todorov-en.html "To say that reason is only desiccating and too dry is a dangerous caricature. No less dangerous is to eliminate the place for arts, for myth, which is a different kind of knowledge of the world." Tzvetan Todorov in conversation with AC Grayling about his new book, "In Defence of the Enlightenment". Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 AC Grayling, Tzvetan Todorov en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-02-05-newfield-en.html Only a small "creative class" achieves the freedom stereotypically attributed to knowledge workers, writes Christopher Newfield. Increasingly, recipients of higher education are prepared for working life in a knowledge economy where independence has been eroded. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 Christopher Newfield en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-02-05-zeise-en.html The few regulatory measures introduced since the financial collapse are being supervised by the same banking sector that caused it in the first place, writes Lucas Zeise. Governments' delegation of regulatory responsibilities has deeply negative implications for democracy. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 Lucas Zeise en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-02-04-bywater-en.html 350 million do it regularly. It offers levels of complexity and human interaction beyond any other art form. We can't continue to ignore the cultural impact of online gaming, says Michael Bywater. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 Michael Bywater en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-02-03-kuster-de.html In the natural sciences, transformation is more important than diversity, writes Hansjörg Küster. Conservation laws prevent us thinking about our landscapes, which are not always as natural as they seem. More research is needed into how landscape can be managed. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 Hansjörg Küster de http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-02-02-laclau-en.html Ernesto Laclau talks to the Greek journal "Intellectum" about the uses of populism, why radical democracy has nothing to do with liberalism, and how lack of political competition benefits the far-Right. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 Ernesto Laclau en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-02-01-bourg-fr.html Reductions in greenhouse gases demand major economic and political changes. Dominique Bourg writes that we must abandon our obsessively humanist ideology if we wish to preserve humanity itself. This is an ecological imperative in its true, moral sense. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 Dominique Bourg fr http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-01-29-blecher-en.html Obama's proposed banking reforms are likely to face insurmountable opposition from Congress, where lobby interests have become all-powerful. Worse still, writes George Blecher, the proposals themselves don't go far enough. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 George Blecher en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-01-28-offe-en.html The dissatisfaction expressed by the many not to have benefited from transition suggests post-commmunist welfare states have a long way to go before they attain western levels of credibility. Their democracies depend on that gap being bridged, argues Claus Offe. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 Claus Offe en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-01-27-eurozinerev-en.html "Index on Censorship" covers another chapter of the fruitless cartoon debate; "Glänta" pays attention to nature; "RiLi" picks over the debris of aviation's dreams; "Multitudes" calls on cognitarians of all lands; "L'Homme" misses women's lib in the 68 anniversary; "Edinburgh Review" takes Kafka's Prague down from the top shelf; "NZ" says Russian readers never had it so good as during Glasnost; "Osteuropa" doubts there's anything left in the pan-Slavic idea; "Mehr Licht" appeals to philosophy's transformative potential; and "Vikerkaar" uncovers the ancient origins of the telenovela. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 Eurozine Review en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-01-25-klausen-en.html "They have turned my book into another chapter of this fruitless debate." Jytte Klausen talks to "Index on Censorship" about the controversial decision of Yale University Press to publish her book on the Danish cartoon crisis without reproductions of the cartoons themselves. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 Jytte Klausen en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-01-21-hawes-en.html Kafka's home city has a lot to hide, writes James Hawes. The Czech capital's architectural debt to greater Germany; its authoritarian past and history of anti-Semitism; even its most famous son's penchant for pornography -- these unwelcome truths are bad for business. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 James Hawes en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-01-21-leggewie-lt.html 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. [Lithuanian version added] Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 Claus Leggewie lt http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-01-20-snyder-ru.html Auschwitz and the Gulag are generally taken to be adequate or even final symbols of the evil of mass slaughter. But they are only the beginning of knowledge, a hint of the true reckoning with the past still to come, writes historian Timothy Snyder. [Russian version added] Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 Timothy Snyder ru http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-01-19-walther-en.html The Swiss vote to ban minarets has less to do with a "populist factor" inherent in referenda than with resentment at high-level corruption and the fear of social declassification. Celebrated by rightwing parties across Europe, the vote augurs more Islam-baiting to come. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:26 +0100 Rudolf Walther en