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In Deutschland herrsche eine Kultur des Mundtot-Machens, beklagt Masha Gessen. Hintergrund ist die Kritik an Gessens Vergleich des Gazastreifens mit jüdischen Ghettos. — Read on www.zeit.de/kultur/2023-12/hannah-arendt-preis-masha-gessen-gazastreifen-kritik

Masha Gessen on how the politics of memory of the Holocaust and antisemitism obscure what we see in Israel and Gaza today. — Read on www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust

Ein in der Schweiz entwickelter Solarreaktor will zwei der Hauptprobleme überwinden, welche die Entwicklung von erneuerbarem Wasserstoff behindern. — Read on www.swissinfo.ch/ger/-kuenstlicher-baum–aus-der-schweiz-soll-gruenen-wasserstoff-erzeugen/49035208

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Three short poems by Uyghur poet Imran Sada’i consider how our thoughts and emotions inhabit the world around us. — Read on wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2023-04/three-poems-imran-sadai-joshua-freeman/

Outright opposition to modernity is often dismissed as backward-looking or “reactionary” and associated with a rigidly hierarchical or aristocratic outlook. But there is another tradition of resistance to the modern world that has very different ideals and can serve as the basis of an old-new radical philosophy of natural and…

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The former techno-optimist has taken a decisive political left turn. He says it’s the only human option. — Read on www.wired.com/story/doug-rushkoff-survival-of-the-richest/

Interpellé et troublé par un tag féministe aperçu en passant devant le musée Picasso, à Paris, qui m’accuse d’être complice « esthétique » d’un violeur si je… — Read on www.philomag.com/articles/picasso-violeur-quand-le-regard-du-spectateur-entre-en-politique

New report: how RTB data about Europe’s political leaders, judges, and military personnel flow to foreign states and non-state actors. We also show that Google (and others) send EU and US RTB data to Russia and China. — Read on www.iccl.ie/2023/new-iccl-reports-reveal-serious-security-threat-to-the-eu-and-us/