global culture

Eric Hobsbawm: A British internationalist

by News Sources 10.06.2012

Ramachandra Guha writes: In 1980, as a beginning graduate student, I was directed by my thesis supervisor to a short, pungent piece by Eric Hobsbawm that had just appeared in the journal Past and Present. This was a response to a previous essay in the same journal, by Lawrence Stone, that celebrated the “revival of [...]

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Video: The Crisis of Civilization

by Attention to the Unseen 07.28.2012
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Future will be shaped by the rise of the angry young man

by News Sources 02.21.2012

Afshin Molavi writes: Last October, amid the din of the Arab uprisings, the euro-zone crisis, the lingering effects of the Japan earthquake, and the US gearing up for a election season, a quiet milestone was passed: the world population hit the seven billion mark. This is, on one level, very good news. It means that [...]

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World lacks enough food, fuel as population soars: U.N.

by News Sources 01.31.2012

Reuters reports: The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to 3 billion people into poverty, a U.N. report warned on Monday. As the world’s population looks set to grow to nearly [...]

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What happens when the economy stops growing — forever?

by News Sources 12.15.2011
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Revolt without revolution

by News Sources 08.26.2011

Slavoj Žižek writes: Repetition, according to Hegel, plays a crucial role in history: when something happens just once, it may be dismissed as an accident, something that might have been avoided if the situation had been handled differently; but when the same event repeats itself, it is a sign that a deeper historical process is [...]

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Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue

by Paul Woodward 03.05.2010

Must-read commentary from Pankaj Mishra: There were chuckles and sniggers in Qatar last month when Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, warned that a military dictatorship was imminent in Iran. Threatening America’s most intransigent adversary, Clinton seems to have been oblivious to her audience: educated Arabs in the Middle East where America’s military presence [...]

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American power and the fall of modernity

by Paul Woodward 09.05.2009

American power and the fall of modernity — Part I By Michael Vlahos, The Globalist, September 2, 2009 Modernity is still rooted in a framework of state religious nationalism. Yes, modernity made the state the arbiter of identity. For two centuries and more, collective belonging and meaning has been a state enterprise. In the great [...]

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