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By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 Nov 22

The 22 of September 2022, the day on which Putin declared that he would be instituting a national conscription programme to obtain troops to fight in Ukraine, marked the beginning… View Post The post The Centre Cannot Hold: The Death Throes of the Russian Federation appeared first on Areo.

The 22 of September 2022, the day on which Putin declared that he would be instituting a national conscription programme to obtain troops to fight in Ukraine, marked the beginning… View Post The post The Centre Cannot Hold: The Death Throes of the Russian Federation appeared first on Areo.


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 22 Nov 22

On the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Economist published an essay entitled “How America wasted its unipolar moment.” It was a familiar story in a popular genre… View Post The post Something Worse than Liberal Hegemony appeared first on Areo.

On the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Economist published an essay entitled “How America wasted its unipolar moment.” It was a familiar story in a popular genre… View Post The post Something Worse than Liberal Hegemony appeared first on Areo.


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 16 Nov 22

Just a couple of months ago, anyone who had seriously wondered whether the German energy grid might collapse would have been derided as a doom-monger. Only survivalist preppers and other… View Post The post Why Germany is Bracing for a Cold Winter appeared first on Areo.

Just a couple of months ago, anyone who had seriously wondered whether the German energy grid might collapse would have been derided as a doom-monger. Only survivalist preppers and other… View Post The post Why Germany is Bracing for a Cold Winter appeared first on Areo.


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 10 Nov 22

In the summer of 2020, at the height of the Covid pandemic, America was raging at the death of George Floyd and violent protests took place in multiple cities. In… View Post The post The Curious Leaderlessness of Modern Movements appeared first on Areo.

In the summer of 2020, at the height of the Covid pandemic, America was raging at the death of George Floyd and violent protests took place in multiple cities. In… View Post The post The Curious Leaderlessness of Modern Movements appeared first on Areo.


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 9 Nov 22

It’s crucial to avoid arguments that rely on the stale adage that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. It’s equally crucial to remain unswayed by the accusation that… View Post The post In Defence of Internationalism appeared first on Areo.

It’s crucial to avoid arguments that rely on the stale adage that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. It’s equally crucial to remain unswayed by the accusation that… View Post The post In Defence of Internationalism appeared first on Areo.


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 4 Nov 22

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.—Ludwig Wittgenstein When early twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote the above quotation, he was cautioning readers that… View Post The post Queer: A New Narrative appeared first on Areo.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.—Ludwig Wittgenstein When early twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote the above quotation, he was cautioning readers that… View Post The post Queer: A New Narrative appeared first on Areo.


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 2 Nov 22

The international alt-right has praised the recent farmers’ protests in the Netherlands as the latest people’s revolt against out-of-touch elites. For former US president Donald Trump, French National Rally leader… View Post The post Funding Pollution: Big Ag and the Dutch Farmers’ Protests appeared first on Areo.

The international alt-right has praised the recent farmers’ protests in the Netherlands as the latest people’s revolt against out-of-touch elites. For former US president Donald Trump, French National Rally leader… View Post The post Funding Pollution: Big Ag and the Dutch Farmers’ Protests appeared first on Areo.


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Nov 22

Anthony Trollope’s satirical novel The Way We Live Now (1875) contains a character by the name of Augustus Melmotte. A crooked financier of shadowy origins, Augustus has absconded from Paris… View Post The post Criminal Kleptocrats and the Looting of Africa appeared first on Areo.

Anthony Trollope’s satirical novel The Way We Live Now (1875) contains a character by the name of Augustus Melmotte. A crooked financier of shadowy origins, Augustus has absconded from Paris… View Post The post Criminal Kleptocrats and the Looting of Africa appeared first on Areo.


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 May 22

Taking Turns at the Edge of the Paradigm Shifthttps://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2019/03-Mar-19/LSE-unveils-new-sculpture-by-Mark-WallingerContents:- Introduction: A Metamodern Left Turn- Political Left Overton Window- Metamodern (Re-)Orientation- The Cosmopolitan Socialist Left- An Acid Trip down Memory (Hole) Lane- Enter Alter-Metamodernism- Unfinished Business and Loose Ends- Conclusion: Convergence on the Event HorizonIntroduction: A Metamodern Left TurnMetamodernism is a transpartisan project but necessarily with leftist roots; one that potentially includes many stripes of people in a big reorientation. We define and prove this point by affirming that metamodernism at least reflects the following gestures; an academic response to post-postmodernism(s), not just postmodernism; the concept of alter-globalization being central (Vermeullen and van den

Taking Turns at the Edge of the Paradigm Shifthttps://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2019/03-Mar-19/LSE-unveils-new-sculpture-by-Mark-WallingerContents:- Introduction: A Metamodern Left Turn- Political Left Overton Window- Metamodern (Re-)Orientation- The Cosmopolitan Socialist Left- An Acid Trip down Memory (Hole) Lane- Enter Alter-Metamodernism- Unfinished Business and Loose Ends- Conclusion: Convergence on the Event HorizonIntroduction: A Metamodern Left TurnMetamodernism is a transpartisan project but necessarily with leftist roots; one that potentially includes many stripes


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 May 22

Taking Turns at the Edge of the Paradigm Shifthttps://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2019/03-Mar-19/LSE-unveils-new-sculpture-by-Mark-WallingerContents:- Introduction: A Metamodern Left Turn- Political Left Overton Window- Metamodern (Re-)Orientation- The Cosmopolitan Socialist Left- An Acid Trip down Memory (Hole) Lane- Enter Alter-Metamodernism- Unfinished Business and Loose Ends- Conclusion: Convergence on the Event HorizonIntroduction: A Metamodern Left TurnMetamodernism is a transpartisan project but necessarily with leftist roots; one that potentially includes many stripes of people in a big reorientation. We define and prove this point by affirming that metamodernism at least reflects the following gestures; an academic response to post-postmodernism(s), not just postmodernism; the concept of alter-globalization being central (Vermeullen and van den

Taking Turns at the Edge of the Paradigm Shifthttps://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2019/03-Mar-19/LSE-unveils-new-sculpture-by-Mark-WallingerContents:- Introduction: A Metamodern Left Turn- Political Left Overton Window- Metamodern (Re-)Orientation- The Cosmopolitan Socialist Left- An Acid Trip down Memory (Hole) Lane- Enter Alter-Metamodernism- Unfinished Business and Loose Ends- Conclusion: Convergence on the Event HorizonIntroduction: A Metamodern Left TurnMetamodernism is a transpartisan project but necessarily with leftist roots; one that potentially includes many stripes


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