Culture and Ideas
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Towards Humane Utopias
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Protopian thinking represents a careful and reasoned approach to changing the world: it focuses on tomorrow and looks into the far future without prescribing what the future is.
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Climate COPs and the Art of ‘Muddling Through’ the Ecological Crisis
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While an incremental approach to global climate governance is surely frustrating and limited, it is not an absurd and blind ‘everything-is-fine’ way of dealing with the current ecological crisis.
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The Temporal Turn in Historiography
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Review of Time, History, and Political Thought by John Robertson (ed.) This article was originally published in OPR’s Issue 11: Time. Among the many ‘turns’ by which historians like to signify developments within their discipline, one of the most significant is the rise of ‘time’ or ‘temporality’ as a subject unto itself. Its viability as…
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Algeria and Palestine: Parallels and Differences
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As demands for a ceasefire in Gaza gain global political momentum, it is worth critically exploring Albert Camus’s thoughts on the French colonial history in Algeria for parallels and breaking points with the present moment.
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China’s Quest for Blockbuster Soft Power
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With mounting pressures domestically, a lot of thought goes into ensuring the right films for domestic audiences are produced, rather than considering global viewership. Only time will tell if they can break America’s hold on global hegemony through their own soft power, even if it is done a blockbuster at a time.
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Is South Korean culture ‘Dynamite’ for the country?
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The impact that South Korean culture exports have on the country itself is rarely considered. What may seem like mere cultural assets have pivotal political and economic consequences, profoundly shaping the country, despite pressing challenges to these assets’ longevity.
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The Roman Emperor
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In Emperor of Rome, Beard’s concern is not to narrate the rise and fall of individual emperors but to explain ‘what it meant to be a Roman emperor.’
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Welcome to the Nostalgia Doom Loop
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We seem to be trapped in a ‘doom loop’ of nostalgia. Why is this the case?
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The Power & Perception of Political Caricatures in Light of Recent Cross-Border Controversies by Charlie Hebdo
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Can political caricatures be too controversial? Who gets to decide? And which side prevails in the inevitable clash between decriers of hate speech and defenders of freedom of expression?
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Arriving in Style: The Importance of Public Transit Design
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Brits, and especially Londoners, have become well acquainted with the value of well-designed public spaces, including economic, political, and well-being benefits.