Europe. At a time when it was possible for elites to reduce the entire rural population to serfdom, it did not seem necessary to have a separate class of slaves as every previous society had had. Feudalism also created a power vacuum in which independent cities specializing in production and...
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She did not enjoy the experience: apparently, I hadn’t warned her that it would be three hours long, and none of it in English.) I thought a lot about the irrevocability of time, how the present moment sometimes stops spinning in wheels and opens up like a sinkhole beneath us, to ...
‘techno-feudalism’ – which suggests that technology alone is the axis of change – we should rather say ‘the new feudalism’ or ‘neofeudalism’. This has other manifestations, as well – including: (2) transformation of the relationship between the state and the citizen in the direction ...
As the goals of the propaganda machine changed, so did the stylistics of thelanguage of photography: against the background of the formation of theavant-garde canon, a new type of“Eastern”photography was created wherethe revolutionary pathos of social liberation from feudalism, clericalism, colo...
(p.xi)Chapter One第一章要反驳的错误议题可总结为:Marxism is finished in the postindustrial Western societies of the present.首先,Eagelton指出,只要Capitalism存在,对它的批判即Marxism也就不会消亡,后者基于前者,即便是在后工业社会,亦即发达资本主义社会,这仍然没有变化,这是由于马克思哲学观念的根本性:The ...
right: at the dawn of civilization (when no one lived over thirty), during feudalism (when the village blacksmith was also the tooth surgeon), during the industrial revolution (when everything was treated with leeches), or just recently, when capital investments in R&D produced lasers a...
Unfortunately, that’s not the direction things seem to be going in this country. We seem to be headed for a society that more closely resembles medieval feudalism than modern democracy. You can continue to comfort yourself with the fantasy that you’ll be one of the lords barricaded inside ...
As I pointed out previously, Ike was a product of his times. After 1917, the capitalist world (pretty well all the world, though there were still regions on the globe that could be said to be living under feudalism in early 20th Century) was all aflutter over The Red Menace. What even...