Category: Violence
-
Holland: The Overreaching Empire
In which we examine the Golden Age founding myth of success: a toll booth built on moral ambiguity.
-
Ancient History Anthropology Authority Borders Bureaucracy Colonialism Community Democracy Egypt Elections Executive Florence Geo-Politics History Hungary Institution Judiciary Law Legislature Legitimation Medieval Migration Nation State Nationhood Opposition Political Economy Political Philosophy Power Press Renaissance Resistance Roman Empire State Surveillance Violence
The Machinery of Legitimation II
How States lose legitimacy.
-
Empire: The Company That Became a Country
The political economy of the British Empire. Finance capital, informal empire, administrative afterlife.
-
Empire: Pressure, Not Providence
The political economy of European Empire. Pressure and invention rather than character and event. Portugal, Spain, Holland and England.
-
Chameleons or Charlatans: Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard. The purest form of resistance or the most complete form of failure.
-
Aesthetics Agency Alienation Anxiety Authority Authorship Bureaucracy Capitalism Colonialism Commodity Critical Theory Culture Debt Democracy Economics Enlightenment Feminism Fiction Frankfurt School Gender Government Ideology Language Luxury Marx Morality Philosophy Political Economy Politics Power Race Science Shakespeare Structuralism Theatre Truth Violence Walter Benjamin
What’s the Big Idea
A list of thinkers whose ideas do most to inform this blog.
-
When the Crows Visit at the Kiln Theatre review ****
When the Crows Visit Kiln Theatre, 6th November 2019 An adaptation of Ibsen’s Ghosts, relocated to modern day India. Seems like a good idea no? It was. In fact better than I had expected even with its visible flaws.. Anupama Chandrasekhar has written a play that takes the Norwegian master…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 