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ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
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Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820
Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
PAUL STOCK
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ABSTRACT On October 12, 2022, the Biden administration abruptly changed course and announced that Venezuelan refugees would be immediately subject to Title 42—the policy that effectively means that those migrants would be summarily forced to return, or expelled, to Mexico.
Terence Michael Garrett +1 more
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Baudrillard on Simulations: an Exegesis and a Critique [PDF]
This paper is an attempt to explain, apply, and ultimately to point to certain limitations of, Baudrillard’s idea that ours is the age of simulations. As the concept has not always been clearly discussed in the literature, early sections of the paper are
Stanley Raffel
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GERÇEKLİK, İKTİDAR VE BEDEN KAVRAMLARI IŞIĞINDA MATRIX FİLMİ
Gerçekliğin ne olduğu sorusu insanlık tarihinden bu yana düşünürleri meşgul etmiştir. Bu arayış, sanatın pek çok kolunda olduğu gibi sinemada da yansıma bulmuştur.
Fatma Öztat
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Abstract This article introduces Hybrid Professional Becoming as a critical approach in English language teaching, challenging the native English‐speaking teachers and non‐native English‐speaking teachers (NEST–NNEST) binary. Grounded in postcolonial theory and a comprehensive literature review, the approach weaves together critical reflection, desire,
Nashid Nigar, Alex Kostogriz
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International Journal of Baudrillard Studies
Special Issue: Baudrillard and WarPublished versionSpecial Issue: Baudrillard and ...
Artrip, Ryan E., Debrix, François
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Baudrillard interpreta el «nuevo terrorismo» como un intercambio simbólico de regalo y contra-regalo: la muerte del terrorista es un contra-regalo irrefutable que rompe el círculo coercitivo de las relaciones sociales «impuestas» por el sistema global. A
Camil Ungureanu
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ABSTRACT Drawing on Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle, this article aims to extend our understanding of the way in which certain non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) spectacularize their performance in the context of disaster situations and the continued co‐existence of a multiplicity of accountabilities, with reference to the 2015 Nepal ...
Pawan Adhikari +4 more
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Baudrillard`s The Agony of Power
For Baudrillard, absolute Evil today comes from an excess of Good, of technologcial development, of totalitarian morality, of the desire to do Good without opposition. The attempt to force the world into a globalized and integrated society merely has the opposite effect of generating an ideological “Axis of Evil” in the form of terrorism. But there can
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