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- Genocide in the Age of the Nation State (1)
- Volume 2: The Rise of the West and Coming Genocide (Genocide in Age Nation State 2)
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In this volume (the second of four) Levene argues that genocide is a product of modernity and the demands of the nation-state, going back to European colonialism from the 15th-19th centuries to chart historical instances of genocide pre-20th century. The book concludes with an analysis of 1914 and d ... (
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- Geopolitics and Geoculture (2)
- Essays on the Changing World-System (Studies in Modern Capitalism)
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Here famed sociologist and world-systems analyst Wallerstein interprets the events of 1989, arguing that the decline of US hegemony—linked to a stage in capitalist world economic development—actually made the collapse of the socialist regimes possible. Furthermore, he discusses the increasing unity ... (
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- If you lived here (3)
- the city in art, theory, and social activism
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Book documenting the interdisciplinary project If you lived here…, organized by Martha Rosler, which took place at Dia Art Foundation’s Wooster Street space in Soho New York City in 1989. Rosler put together a series of exhibitions, public meetings, archival research, and other information focusing ... (
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- On Empire (4)
- America, War, and Global Supremacy
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By Eric J Hobsbawm -
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- Pride and Prejudice (41910)
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- The cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945-1960 (1)
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- The Global Cold War (5)
- Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
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By Odd Arne Westad -
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- The Sublime Object of Ideology (27)
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By Slavoj Zizek -
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- We were the people (1)
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- The Condition of Postmodernity (48)
- An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
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- Visual Display (3)
- Culture Beyond Appearances (Discussions in Contemporary Culture, No 10)
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A collection of essays considering the history of visual culture and current takes on visual display. These considerations go beyond traditional museum environments and cross disciplines such as art, film, science, art history, etc. See in particular Ralph Rugoff ‘Beyond Belief: The Museum as Metaph ... (
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Mar 17, 2010 |
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- Antinomies of art and culture (1)
- modernity, postmodernity, contemporaneity
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By Terry E. Smith -
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- Neo-avantgarde and Culture Industry (4)
- Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975
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By Benjamin H. D. Buchloh -
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Neo-avantgarde and Culture Industry
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Collection of 18 major essays by Buchloh, one of the most influential art historians associated with the journal October, who developed an analysis of modern and contemporary art and its relationship to memory, ideology, institutions such as the museum, and history grounded in Marxist and critical t ... (
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- The global artworld inc (1)
- on the globalization of contemporary art
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By Charlotte Bydler -
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Fools' crusade
This book reveals the common geopolitical interests behind the US and NATO’s so-called ‘humanitarian interventions’ post-1989, and suggests that the ‘noble’ missions in Serbia and Kosovo paved the way for the full scale invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and for the naming of ‘rouge states’ as possib ... (continue)
This book reveals the common geopolitical interests behind the US and NATO’s so-called ‘humanitarian interventions’ post-1989, and suggests that the ‘noble’ missions in Serbia and Kosovo paved the way for the full scale invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and for the naming of ‘rouge states’ as possible future targets, laying the groundwork for an aggressively militarized and eager-to-deploy US military. See the postscript ‘Perpetual War,’ which reflects on the future of conflict after 9/11.