Sublime

The Ides of March

With the passage of the Industrial Age, the megapolitical conditions that democracy satisfied are rapidly ceasing to exist. Therefore, it is doubtful that mass democracy and the welfare state will survive long in the new megapolitical conditions of the Information Age.

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Still, a certain uneasiness spread among his students. Colleagues had begun to question his powers of reason. Admirers were saddened to see him stumble over facts, contradict himself, or…

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The balance of powers has become unhinged.

The theme of this book is the new revolution of power which is liberating individuals at the expense of the twentieth-century nation-state.

Impressionné par la manière dont l’aristocratie britannique s’était convertie à la liberté politique en assurant une transition paisible vers la démocratie et en s’ouvrant vers les autres classes, permettant ainsi de légitimer ses privilèges et de conserver une structure de société de classes tout en accompagnant les réformes politiques, il fut fra

“Is the immune system at the heart of a new incarnation of social Darwinism that allows people of different ‘quality’ to be distinguished from each other?” asks the anthropologist Emily Martin.

Populism gives life to Michel Foucault’s celebrated reversal of the Clausewitz dictum: Politics is the pursuit of war by other means.