LookingGlass – Introduction
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Introducing LookingGlass and Glasshouse Forum
Starting with this issue, Glasshouse Forum has the pleasure of introducing LookingGlass, a newsletter written by Glasshouse Forum’s secretariat and fellow researchers.
Its aim is to present and discuss topics taken up within the framework of Glasshouse Forum’s work and to provide an arena for critical reflection on the merits and problems of capitalism.
Each issue will treat a limited topic – the present issue takes up the theme of authoritarian capitalism – and will contain a longer theme article, a book review section and presentations of recent Glasshouse Forum publications. The content will in a flexible way mirror those themes on which Glasshouse Forum is running projects, but also has the opportunity of being explorative on questions of capitalism.
Glasshouse Forum, founded in 2007, is a network of researchers and intellectuals – to date about 50 active contributors – from different disciplines, mainly from Europe and the US, but also from Russia and China. The forum is politically independent and does not engage in lobbying activities, or make policy recommendations.
In 2008 the following projects have been running within Glasshouse Forum:
- The return of the capitalist-authoritarian great powers
- A consumed society?
- Short-termism in the long run
- Globalisation and the middle class in the West
Contacts
Editor of LookingGlass: Kay Glans.
Publisher of LookingGlass and Head of Glasshouse Forum: Johanna Laurin.
Glasshouse Forum
Box 1719
SE-111 87 Stockholm
Sweden
info@glasshouseforum.org