Global Culture

Ben Beller of the Harvard Political Review reviews the book “Beyond the Global Culture War” by Adam K. Webb (see sidebar). Since I hardly come across articles talking about the theory of global culture, I found this book very promising with an argument built around the concept of “ethoses”:
Webb devotes the first part of [...]

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The Toronto International Film Festival announced a line-up of 352 films from 61 countries. While there are the mandatory celebrities promoting their big-budget films, such a number guarantees that there will be plenty of newcomers that travel to the festival with the same attitude of the migrant, trying to understand a new culture and [...]

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According to Wikipedia, the original slogan “Eight hours labour, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest” was coined by Robert Owen early in the XIX century. The industrial revolution would only provide the appropriate climate for the Eight-hour day movement to become the central demand of the labour movement across the world. Labour Day [...]

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