Cultural
Battles

The American novelist John Updike once said that in any moment of history, an old world is passing away and a new one is coming into being, and that we have sharper eyes for the fall than for the arrival because the old world is the one we know. We have been living for a while in the age of the „unimaginable“, in which, among wars, war crimes, political violence, violations of human rights, restricted freedom, and increasing self-censorship, new autocratic regimes have been accumulating power. They do seem to differ from those of the past in their attempt to maintain a democratic façade; however, they all still share the same desire to exert control over culture and weaponize its narratives.