As the east European bloc comes out of its slumber Dan Chitoiu suggests that it offers a differing grounding to modernity than the traditional one of Rationality of The Enlightenment. He sugggest that especially in the latter half of the 20th century the tools became available with which to resuscitate...
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The Economist has a special section of this edition devoted to wjat appears to be inexorable rise of social networking sites here. Elsewhere in the new online journal - Future Net - there are a number of excellent articles. Chief amongst these is the article by Fuchs et al - Theoretical Foundations of...
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In the emergent 'panspectric' order, human society is seen in terms of 'information traffic'. It is not the actions of individuals that are observed, as in the Foulcauldian panopticon, rather those of the mass. Degrees of corporate and state surveillance are unprecedented; yet panspectric subjectivity...
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Robert Pepperell uses one of Monet's series of paintings of Rouen Cathedral - Setting Sun - to examine The Conscious Act of Looking at a Painting. Elsewhere Paul Daniels in Kant on the Beautiful: The Interest in Disinterestedness asks how it was that Kant was able to contradictorily suggest that that...
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The new issue of Aesthetics & Protest has this closely argued but rewarding piece by Marc Leger - Welcome to the Cultural Goodwill Revolution: On Class Composition in the Age of Classless Struggle - Leger notes the importance of new French social theory - in the shape of Badiou etc - and the Italian...
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The social construction of pets So there I was, as you do, reading the latest edition of the Canadian Journal of Sociology when i was particularly struck by this article on pets. In Beyond Pets: Exploring Relational Perspectives of Petness Jen Wrye offers a social constructionist approach to explaining...
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