It follows that civil disobedience and dissent arise out of very peculiar and specific circumstances and situations, namely, the collapse or the failure of state institutions or state organs. Thus, the past shapes the present, in the sense that certain actions or events led to the situation whereby state institutions or state organs collapsed and … Continue reading Patrimonial States
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Chipocalypse Now
It has been a little more than seven months since I actually wrote a full-fledged article. Most of the content which developed on my blog since the last article came in the form of food, music, article and book recommendations, along with a set of 21 interviews with an online magazine. The last article I … Continue reading Chipocalypse Now
The Brooding Shadow of Violence
The primary focus of the major powers (America, Russia, and China) is the material capabilities of one another. When the material capabilities of each major power changes, so does the balance or the distribution of power between them. And that is exactly what has occurred in recent years. America’s drive into egregious debt has led … Continue reading The Brooding Shadow of Violence
Forepleasure
Imagination is everything in social life. To borrow from Freud: “The realm of imagination was seen to be a ‘reservation’ made during the painful transition from the pleasure principle to the reality principle in order to provide a substitute for instinctual satisfactions which had to be given up in real life. The artist, like the neurotic, … Continue reading Forepleasure
Embeddedness and Separateness
In short, the ones who have the education and experience to understand both culture and the economy are hidden and are in conflict with themselves, while the vast majority of people who do not have the education and experience to understand culture and the economy are out in public fighting with one another. And as Polanyi argued, the … Continue reading Embeddedness and Separateness
Adam A. Azim 