4.50 €
Preview
Communism through the Eyes of Animals
The history of communism has been chewed over in a whole manner of tongues over the decades, but ...
More...We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.
The history of communism has been chewed over in a whole manner of tongues over the decades, but ...
More...
Poland’s first openly gay, popularly elected official envisions a more open, “sexy and colorful” city.
More...
People stared at me as if I were walking two monsters through their streets: women fled from my path, children screamed, old grandmothers swore at me in muted Bulgarian.
More...
Given the fear factor, it's hard to imagine all this new online activity making a difference without many other developments occurring “offline” at the same time.
More...
Beloved in Armenia, chess becomes a mandatory part of the country’s curriculum.
More...
The ubiquitous secondhand stores are being squeezed by modern shopping malls on the one hand and “exchange markets” on the other.
More...
The modern individual is performance oriented; hence, he is highly preoccupied with connecting himself with the public. His means of communication (mainly the imago-visual ones) are being permanently adjusted on a performative basis. Therefore, it turns to be more important what an individual is able to provide in public rather than whom he actually is and what values shape him up. Absorbed by a social “dialect” which he uses by reasons of conformity, any individual becomes the promoter of a culture of dissimulation. The vassalage’s architecture articulates in the ambit of individual’s ability to exploit the personal formulas of consensus. In the following we will thus argue that Romania missed its modernity, partly because of the residual effect of the post-feudal model of authority and because of the inertia of the vassalage system.
More...
