Sublime

The account of the emergence in Europe of linear history and its epistemic condition, homogeneous and empty time-space, is a familiar one that I will briefly summarize below. My goal is not to dispute this account but to grasp: (1) what were the conditions in which this linear vision became institutionalized and hegemonic and (2) how linearity came

Howard K. Smith, who fled Nazi Germany on the last train from Berlin before Hitler declared war on the United States in 1941; James Cameron, whose iconic 1946 report from the Bikini atom tests was perhaps the most literary and philosophical article ever published in a newspaper.

I endorse the common understanding that premodern, prenational societies were not dominated by a sense of linear history. But, in my understanding, the non-linear conception was hegemonic and not exclusive.

Au début, ce fut à cause de la politique extrêmement libérale menée par José Manuel Barroso, abandonnant l’idée même d’un « agenda social européen », lors de son premier mandat, puis, dans la crise financière, se faisant l’accompagnateur discret des gouvernements des États-Unis et de l’Union européenne. Le mot d’ordre généralisé fut de « faire des

Lehman Brothers

Rey Diaz was the current president of Venezuela, which, under his leadership, had aptly demonstrated Tyler’s theory about the rise of small countries. He carried forward the Bolivarian Revolution instigated by Hugo Chavez: In a contemporary world ruled by capitalism and market economics, he promoted in Venezuela what Chavez called Socialism of the