An interview with Wolfgang Ullrich

Karolina Fabelová

Philosophers and art theorists have been asking questions about contemporary art for the last two hundred years, and they are still searching for answers. Wolfgang Ullrich is one of them. He is a professor of art and media theory at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Germany, and has authored numerous publications investigating art as a new symbol of social status and as a means to criticize globalization, the culture of consumerism, and the prosperity phenomenon. He specializes in the history and critique of defining the arts. (more…)

Ondřej Jonaš

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Jan Hartl

1. The basic systematic problem in Czech politics is the fact that our political system was created from “the top down.” Any power hungry person (who was not entirely compromised by their role under communism) could and did enter the political arena. Stories are told about how the first political positions were handed out: “Do you know someone decent who could do… ?” There was no other way of doing it in November 1989. The problem is, however, that the situation is more or less the same today. Individuals still do not enter politics from “the bottom up;” they do not begin at the local level and work their way up through the communal, regional, and parliamentary levels of government. (more…)

Sara Irwin

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European policy towards immigration from third countries is subject to certain restrictions which must be removed to provide a fair working environment for all immigrants to Europe. (more…)

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The new Czech Party of Free Citizens (SSO) has established themselves as a primarily anti-Lisbon party which aspires to become a formidable political force. The reality presents a far bleaker picture.

Petr Mach

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