Abstracts for Lettre Internationale, Denmark 10 (2006)

Samuel P. Huntington
The Clash of Civilizations

His famous and deeply controversial essay on “the West vs. the rest”.

Edward W. Said
The Clash of Ignorance

According to Said, Samuel Huntingon’s theory is a gimmick that simplifies the matter.

Jeremy Rifkin
Unity in Diversity

An optimistic and visionary essay on the dream about Europe as a place of cooperation and coexistence.

Karl Markus Gauss & Michael Harbsmeier in conversation with Morten Dyssel Mortensen
European Background Music

This conversation revolves around the expansion of EU and European identity.

Bengt Göransson
The Answer is Public Service

Free media is a necessity for a free society, and that is why we should maintain Europe’s public service system.

Arne Ruth
Cross-border Journalism

A more internationally orientated press would promote the European project and create a sense of community.

Stig Sæterbakken
My Heart Belongs to Europe, therefore it is broken

Europe is a fiction, it is something so complex and inconsistent that it can never act like a unity – or be regarded as such.

Benjamin Korn
The Great French Self-deception

The star of France is dying because the former super power is holding on to its own heroic illusions. A wry and witty essay on how France needs to “de-colonize” its consciousness.

Slavenka Drakulic
Intellectual Bad Guys

A political essay on the role of the intellectual in former Yugoslavia.

Amos Oz
The Mephisto of the Heart

An insightful and poetic speech on good and evil, on Goethe, Nazism, and the ability to imagine the other.

Harold Pinter
Art, Truth, & Politics

Comparing drama and politics, Pinter speaks of the fleeting of truth and the ambiguity of language.

Peter Greenaway
Towards a Re-invention of Cinema

While other kinds of performing arts have developed and changed, filmmaking is in stagnation. It is dull and predictible, and it needs to be re-invented.

Vibeke Windeløv, Casper Tybjerg & Ole John in conversation with Thure Munkholm
Grains and Con Amore

A conversation about technology, film supply, and the cinema of the future.

Jonathan Rosenbaum
Outfoxing the Film Industry

The DVD provides a range of new opportunities that the film establishment has not yet been able to seize.

Youk Chhang in conversation with Jens-Martin Eriksen
Should somebody shed the blood of man

The head of the Documentation Centre of Cambodia draws a shocking picture of his country in the era of Khmer Rouge.

Jakob S. Larsen from Rwanda
Between Hutu and Tutsi

Impressions from a divided country.

Jacques Berg from Bolivia
Ahora es cuando!

A personal narrative from the political landscapes of Bolivia.