Twist: Today the Arte culture magazine starts

Twist, the new Arte culture magazine, is launching this Sunday. Every week, presenters Bianca Hauda and Romy Straßenburg explore the questions that are currently troubling people in a European metropolis.

The whole thing is curious, fresh, packed with esprit and humor, for example in encounters with artists and creative people. Twist asks about utopias for a better world.

The first broadcast will address the far-reaching changes in society in the wake of the Corona pandemic. In the premiere, presenter Bianca Hauda addresses the question "What about solidarity?"

The famous Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben warns in the Arte culture magazine: “The other person is now fundamentally under suspicion,” says Agamben about the Corona protective measures.

He fears that a society could emerge "that is not based on love, but on distance, separation, suspicion, perhaps even hatred."

Twist: can be seen every Sunday at around 16.30 pm on Arte.

Rahel Jaeggi, a philosopher from Berlin, sees things differently: "If the situation requires it, then it can also happen that our sense of community depends on us distancing ourselves." True solidarity must "stabilize itself in institutions."

The pandemic is revealing, as if under a magnifying glass, deficits in societies such as poor working conditions or “inequality in the education system,” said Jaeggi in an interview with Twist presenter Bianca Hauda.

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