Issue #0 (09), 2011 “The New Social Diversity

Social diversity becomes the new social reality to challenge humanity in coming decade. Riots and other outbreaks in Europe, crisis of multiculturalism, problems with migrants, development of new technologies, weird forms of terrorism – they all seem to indicate yet uncategorized societal problem. Is the Wikileaks phenomenon proof that "netocracy” has been established? What is informational terrorism? How should governments react to civil unrest? What happenes to political opposition in new society? These questions were addressed to the following experts: Slavoj Zizek, a political philosopher; Alexander Bard, author of the book Netocracy and leader of the group “Army of Lovers”; Zakhar Prilepin, a writer and co-chairman of the Civil literary forum; Fred Burton, Stratfor’s Vice President for counter-terrorism and corporate security; Boris Kagarlitsky, director of the Institute of globalization and social movements; Evgenia Chirikova, a Russian environmentalist and social activist; Gene Sharp, a political scientist and theorist of non-violent resistance “techniques”; Norbert Bolz, professor of the Berlin Technical University, author of theThe ABC of Media.