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Sulle Spirali Regressive Della Nuova Restaurazione, In "Il Ponte. Rivista Di Politica Economia E Cultura Fondata Da Piero Calamandrei", Lxxi, N. 7 (2015), Pp. 58-62., Marco Solinas Aug 2015

Sulle Spirali Regressive Della Nuova Restaurazione, In "Il Ponte. Rivista Di Politica Economia E Cultura Fondata Da Piero Calamandrei", Lxxi, N. 7 (2015), Pp. 58-62., Marco Solinas

Marco Solinas

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Genocide In The Modern Era, Jennifer A. W. Joe Apr 2015

Genocide In The Modern Era, Jennifer A. W. Joe

Jennifer Wright Joe

A presentation on how genocide has continued to be a problem well into the 21st century, despite the attention called to it by World War II.


Karl Marx And His Ideas About Inequality, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr. Mar 2015

Karl Marx And His Ideas About Inequality, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Marx has looked inequality in his own particular way. He has nowhere discussed about inequality in direct terms but his ideas about it are widely spread in his writings.


Authentic Identities, Andrew Pierce Jan 2015

Authentic Identities, Andrew Pierce

Andrew J. Pierce

Authenticity has played a central role in modern philosophical discourse, where it has often been interpreted individualistically. But concerns about authenticity also arise in relation to questions of group membership, and become especially pressing in the case of minority and/or disadvantaged groups. In this essay, I develop an alternative conception of authenticity based on the intersubjective relation of trust. Such a relational conception is better equipped to deal with both the authenticity of individuals, and that of groups, which, I ultimately argue, are two sides of the same coin.


Carving A Walled Village To Keep Friends In -- An Ethnographic Account In The Cyberspace Of Ingress, Leung-Sea, Lucia Siu Jan 2015

Carving A Walled Village To Keep Friends In -- An Ethnographic Account In The Cyberspace Of Ingress, Leung-Sea, Lucia Siu

Prof. SIU Leung-sea, Lucia

This paper investigates how new forms of classical social cohesion, as illustrated by Emile Durkheim, can be found in the mobile gaming community of Ingress. Ingress was a global game developed by Google that ran on mobile phones using location-based technologies. Gamers from two factions had to travel, cooperate and combat across actual geographical space to play. The paper investigates how the gaming community simultaneously possessed global connectivity and cultures of local enclave communities. It contains ethnographic records of a group of gamers from the satellite town of Tuen Mun, Hong Kong. The group used to build a symbolic wall …


Conceptualising (Re)Worked Narratives Of The American Family: From The American Dream To And American Decay In ‘New’ Television, Jo Coghlan Dr Jan 2015

Conceptualising (Re)Worked Narratives Of The American Family: From The American Dream To And American Decay In ‘New’ Television, Jo Coghlan Dr

Jo Coghlan

American television family dramas have long functioned for broadcast networks as a metaphoric framework to affirm the values of the Amerian Dream. 'New' television challenges this constuct.