Through an analysis of films such as 'American Beauty', 'Blade Runner', 'Natural Born Killers' and 'Thelma and Louise', this study explores the historical and theoretical shift from the long era of modernity to an emergent postmodernity and examines its intersection with film cu…
"Radical Transformation is a story about industrial civilization's impending collapse, and about the possibilities of averting this fate. Human communities first emerged as egalitarian, democratic groups that existed in symbiotic relationship with their environments. Increasing …
Das Besondere ist Trumpf, das Einzigartige wird prämiert, eher reizlos ist das Allgemeine und Standardisierte. Der Durchschnittsmensch mit seinem Durchschnittsleben steht unter Konformitätsverdacht. Das neue Maß der Dinge sind die authentischen Subjekte mit originellen Interesse…
Since the late nineteenth century, fears that marriage is in crisis have reverberated around the world. Each chapter in Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties considers a moment in which proclamations of marriage crisis have erupted, revealing how people deployed the institution …
"Since the late nineteenth century, fears that marriage is in crisis have reverberated around the world. This volume explores this phenomenon, asking why people of various races, classes, and nations frequently seem to be fretting about marriage. Each of the chapters analyzes a …
"Analyses how political and economic imbalances in China exacerbate system collapse--and how this collapse could happen much sooner than we had previously anticipated. China is the last region into which capital can expand: the system is at its limits. Examining this, as well as…
"Analyses how political and economic imbalances in China exacerbate system collapse - and how this collapse could happen much sooner than we had previously anticipated. China is the last region into which capital can expand: the system is at its limits. Examining this, as well a…