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This interest in envisioning utopia has led Zizek in recent years to participate in a third theoretical development: the so-called “theological turn.” Žižek, while remaining an atheist, has argued that theology is one of the few systems of thought available as an alternative to the total...
Without exception, from the dawn of history all civilizations and all empires fell when their surplus went negative. The difference between gross and net is what’s necessary to maintain the current stock of capital. Consumption of fixed capital – the depreciation that must be replaced on an ...
The problem with this literary device, however, is that so few people now remember how impressive and terrifying the Soviet empires economic performance once seemed. Before turning to Asian growth, then, it may be useful to review an important but largely forgotten piece of economic history. ...
Over the centuries, a succession of empires—Greek, Persian, Roman, Byzantine and, finally, Ottoman—ruled over the city of Ephesus. Yet no matter how many times it changed hands, the city remained one of the most vibrant metropolises of the ancient world. Located on Turkey's western coast...
10th centuries, applied to the subjected Christian and Jewish populations of the Turkish Islamic dominions. Those regulations are integrated into the Islamic legislation concerning the non-Muslim vanquished peoples and consequently they present a certain homogeneity throughout the Arab and Turkish empires....
there could be no more sacred site than where their savior was born, but they don't have it anymore. And yet no crusader army has geared up to take it back. Things change- countries, boundaries, empires. Palestine was under the Ottoman Empire for 400 years but today, ...
Things change- countries, boundaries, empires. Palestine was under the Ottoman Empire for 400 years but today, an ottoman is something you've put under your feet." BILL MAHER DECLARES HARVARD, UPENN ‘TEAM HAMAS,’ DERIDES ‘IDIOT’ STUDENTS WHO ARE ATTACKING ISRAEL "Real...
and we know how empires spread their values. We see similar elements in Chomsky’s and Kristeva’s above quotes, as well. Both, careful as not to deploy the concept itself, seem to operate from the same framework of difference as a state of being rather than a discourse of power. Chomsk...
. . [41] and we know how empires spread their values. We see similar elements in Chomsky's and Kristeva's above quotes, as well. Both, careful as not to deploy the concept itself, seem to operate from the same framework of difference as a state of being rather than a discourse of ...