Tag: Cancel Culture
Cancel Culture at the literature festival in Pakistan around Ronya Othmann – guest article by Hasnain Kazim – Culture
At several locations in the Pakistani metropolis of Karachi this weekend there were tower-sized posters advertising the literature festival. “Where every voice finds its story,” it said in large letters:…
Dispute over animal names: Should a beetle be allowed to be named after Hitler? – Knowledge
Nobody can do anything about their name. Especially not the five millimeter tall, eyeless, light brown beetle that probably leads an uneventful life in the karst caves of Slovenia. A…
Book Ban A number of books are banned in US prisons – culture
The fact that books by Amanda Gorman, picture books about gay penguins and, most recently, even William Shakespeare have been banned from some classrooms and curricula has become a sad…
AI series "madness and method": Don’t feel too safe
Social networks are a good environment for hate and hate speech. Is everything getting worse now thanks to artificial intelligence – or better? source site
Nida-Rümelin über Cancel Culture: Bitte nicht brüllen
In seinem Buch “Cancel Culture. Ende der Aufklärung?” macht sich der Philosoph Julian Nida-Rümelin Sorgen um die Offenheit der Debatte – aber geht dabei zu pauschal vor. source site
Julian Nida-Rümelin: “Cancel Culture”: Bitte nicht brüllen – Kultur
“Cancel Culture” ist ein gewaltsamer Begriff. Zur Debatte steht in der Gegenwart zwar mit Recht die Frage: Wie weit darf man damit gehen, bei wachsender moralischer Sensibilität bestimmte Personen und…
Maybrit Illner: Hape Kerkeling on Cancel Culture – media
In the last show before the holidays, Maybrit Illner discusses a classic of the summer slump, or as they say in the arts section: Cancel Culture. The round is promising.…
Theater premiere in Munich: A debate musical? Sure it’s possible!
Philipp Moschitz is staging Yael Ronen’s “Slippery Slope” at the Metropol-Theater: a witty comment on the cancel-culture debate. source site
Munich: “Slippery Slope” at the Metropoltheater – Munich
Cancel culture, appropriation and abuse of power, all wrapped up in a musical? Sounds weird, but it works. Yael Ronen proves that with her play “Slippery Slope – Almost a…
Panel discussion on Cancel Culture in the Literaturhaus München – Munich
Few cultural debates are currently being conducted as emotionally as those about “cancel culture”. The sharp-tongued Austrian philosopher and essayist Konrad Paul Liessmann is very worried: “A furor has gripped…