Discussion in the Meeting with the Creative Intellectuals (1946)
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From Cold War Opera to the DJ Booth: My New Research Rabbit Hole
US Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago Doing School Outreach During Joint Military Exercises
Sobers: US troops to return to Trinidad and Tobago for joint military training
Sobers said the US embassy would participate in outreach activities across both islands. Building the TTDF’s capacity, he reiterated, was critical, especially to help combat the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into the country.
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Regime change assets Nadya Tolokonnikova and Slavoj Žižek.
Shaping Society: The Intersection of Art, Ideology, and Power
Explainer: This is just a sampling of my ongoing research for a project on social conditioning. There’s a vast amount of material to explore, and I’m still figuring out how to weave it all together. My hope is to someday write a book or at least compile a comprehensive piece on this topic.
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Protected: Sorry, Not Sorry—Couldn’t Resist This One
JD Vance Speaks at Rod Dreher’s ‘Live Not by Lies’ Screening in DC + More
JD Vance Speaks at Rod Dreher’s ‘Live Not by Lies’ Screening in DC
“The ruling elite of the societies have become actively hostile to some of the very ideas that those countries were founded on in the first place,” Vance said before an audience of about 100 people at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. In addition to Vance’s speech, the by-invitation-only event featured a screening and discussion of the first episode of the film series Live Not by Lies released April 1, by Angel Studios.
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Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School
Since the election of Donald Trump, a growing body of research has examined the role of digital technologies in new right wing movements (Lewis 2018; Hawley 2017; Neiwert 2017; Nagle 2017). This article will explore a distinct, but related, subject: new right wing tendencies within the tech industry itself. Our point of entry will be an improbable document: a German language dissertation submitted by an American to the faculty of social sciences at J. W. Goethe University of Frankfurt in 2002. Entitled Aggression in the Life-World, the dissertation aims to describe the role that aggression plays in social integration, or the set of processes that lead individuals in a given society to feel bound to one another. To that end, it offers a “systematic” reinterpretation of Theodor Adorno’s Jargon of Authenticity (1973). It is of interest primarily because of its author: Alexander C. Karp.
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