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1 day ago · At first, he was much loved and called the "Citizen King" and the "bourgeois monarch", but his popularity suffered as his government was perceived as increasingly conservative and monarchical. Because he owed his elevation to a revolution in Paris and a faction of liberal deputies in the parliament of Charles X, Louis Philippe's rule ...
4 days ago · Contrary to “exceptionalist” arguments that American culture was by nature always inhospitable to socialist and radical labor movements, the United States actually hosted the most vigorous efforts to build utopian-socialist colonies in modern history, the most violent class struggle of any industrializing society, and the world’s most influential utopian novel ever written. 1 That was ...
Jun 8, 2024 · Born from bourgeois rationality, he explains, in Arminius, all-powerful technology has now turned against those who engendered it. The more technological the world becomes, the more the individual disappears; neonationalism must be the first to learn this lesson.
2 days ago · Models of urban politics. The political history of late medieval towns is a field of research polarised between two outwardly antagonistic schools of thought – the growth of urban oligarchy and the corrective power of urban citizenship – neither of which, in their common engagement with narratives of democratisation, can accommodate and explain the events in Norwich.
4 days ago · This article examines the career of the South African undercover agent Craig Williamson in the 1970s and 1980s, arguing that the violent acts of men like Williamson must be analysed in terms of the broader strategic aims of the Security Police in the maintenance of apartheid.
2 days ago · Experience the work of legendary artist Louise Bourgeois here in Rome. The exhibit held in the beyond breathtaking Galleria Borghese is titled L’Inconscio della memoria (Unconscious Memories). From now until September 15th, 2024, you have the chance to become intrigued with the mind of the late Louise Bourgeois and her ...
Jun 28, 2024 · Bourgeois affective habits are characterised by a mixture of ignorance and superficial moral concern for suffering; 3 I introduce the concept of ‘coldness’, which is mentioned in Adorno and Horkheimer, 4 to examine the exact composition of sustained social indifference. 5 Bourgeois coldness points to the ways in which bourgeois subjectivity, as ...
