Revolutions

Internacionalismo y revolución: Las intervenciones del ICAIC en la historia de las independencias

by Santiago Juan-Navarro

Published in 1808-1810. Cine y guerras de independencia. Ed. Jorge Nieto Ferrando. Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, 2011. 

http://www.abadaeditores.com/libro.php?l=296

The 'Irish revolution' as a historiographical problem

by john regan

Iconspicuous Revolutions of 1989. Culture and Contingency in the Making of Political Icons

by Dominik Bartmanski

A Chapter in the Book "Iconic Power"

Published in 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan

Sociological interpretation of news images inevitably take us beyond the surface of pictures to the surfaces and... more Sociological interpretation of news images inevitably take us beyond the surface of pictures to the surfaces and depths of events, to singular bodies and powerful crowds, sights and sites, built structures, and symbolically constructed narratives. It is precisely the new prism of iconicity through which the effects of shocking and euphoric events that seem well known can be explained in full. If icons are indeed stars of the social universe, then sociological analysis provides lenses through which we can better see them. With the theory of iconic power, we can make use of the light of “social stars” to learn new things about the social universe as such.

In his chapter “Iconspicuous Revolution: Culture and Contingency in the Making of Political Icons,” Dominik Bartmański revisits the European icons of the euphoric year of 1989 and asks what constitutes a powerful iconic fact. Specifically, he explains why the fall of the Berlin Wall emerged as the icon of 1989 and has retained this symbolic status ever since. The answer is not obvious. 1989 was full of epochal events and important figures busy making history. Especially the earlier, politically unprecedented changes in Hungary and Poland had opened up a revolutionary space in which such events like the fall of the wall became possible. And yet they have not attained the same lasting influence on the international audiences. To reconstruct this phenomenon is to tell a story about how the iconic can trump the political. By demonstrating what counts in public perception as “revolutionary,” “political signal,” and “beginning” and “end” of a social process, Bartmański shows the role that iconicity plays in constituting these key categories and thus in structuring our ability to notice, understand, and remember events. He argues that it is precisely the iconic power of events that turns them into “objective,” temporal markers of history.

Misyurov D.A. Dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas // Credo New. 2012. №2

by Dmitry Misyurov

The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with... more The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with dominant and the non-dominant elements; universal formula; formula with symbolic weight of elements; tautological formula. For example, it suggests an opportunity to use the dialectical formulas for modeling and artificial intelligence creation, etc.

Review of Holloway, J. (2010) Crack Capitalism (London: Pluto)

by Christian Garland

Review of Holloway, J. (2010) Crack Capitalism (London: Pluto) for Marx and Philosophy Review of Books

Review of Frolich P. (2010) Rosa Luxemburg: Ideas in Action (2012)

by Christian Garland

Unedited version of shorter review published in Anarchist Studies 21.1 pps.119-121
http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/anarchiststudies/current.html

Holloway, La Boétie, Hegel

by Adrian Wilding

Co-Authored with Richard Gunn, Published in The Journal of Classical Sociology, Special Issue on John Holloway's book 'Crack Capitalism', May 2012

Ethnic Divide or Human Security: An Investigation into the Cause of Violent Conflict in the Ferghana Valley Region of Southern Kyrgyzstan in June 2010

by Michael Caster

The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East

by Marco Lagi

"Why Egypt erupted: Key recent events and long-simmering issues combined with a force felt has shaken the Arab world," Austin American-Statesman, 7 February 2011.

by Elizabeth Bishop

2011 The three anthropological approaches to neoliberalism, in International Social Science Journal, Vol 61 (202) : 351–364.

by Mathieu Hilgers

International Social Science Journal, Volume 61, Issue 202, 2011: 351–364.

For around fifteen years now, anthropology has been engaged in the study of neoliberalism. What contribution does the... more For around fifteen years now, anthropology has been engaged in the study of neoliberalism. What contribution does the discipline have to make to a debate largely monopolized by economics and political science? To answer this question, the present article returns to the major texts and highlights the three perspectives from which anthropology has approached neoliberal expansion: culturalist, systemic and the approach based on governmentality. Each has its own epistemological presuppositions and a specific conception of anthropology, globalization and neoliberalism. The article highlights the relevance and limitations of these approaches.

Den Uforudsigelige Revolution

by Niels Glæsner

A Danish essay reflecting on the unpredictability of revolutionary change and in particular the Tunesian uprising of december 2010 - Published in the antology "Alkvantor III - Revolutions"

From Workers' Self-Management to State Bureaucratic Control: Autogestion in Algeria

by Samuel Southgate

Chapter in Dario Azzellini and Immanuel Ness eds. 2011. Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present. Haymarket Books: Chicago. pp. 228-247

Benvenuti in tempi interessanti di Slavoj Žižek. La rivoluzione è possibile nel regno dell’uomo-massa?

by Pietro Piro

Recensione critica a S. Žižek, Benvenuti in tempi interessanti, Ponte alle Grazie, Milano 2012.

E' vero che per soppiantare efficacemente il capitale, ciò di cui abbiamo bisogno è l'opera graduale, lunga e faticosa... more E' vero che per soppiantare efficacemente il capitale, ciò di cui abbiamo bisogno è l'opera graduale, lunga e faticosa di riorganizzare interamente il processo produttivo in modo tale che le forze di alienazione della regolamentazione tanto del mercato quanto dello Stato vengano sostituite da un'autentica pianificazione organizzata "dal basso", in un rapporto di trasparenza con i produttori come afferma S. Žižek, oppure, il capitale non si tocca perché garantisce la lunga vita dell'uomo-massa?

A Caring Brother – The Story of Harmonious Hegemonism

by Tornike Metreveli

This article evaluates broader trends in Russian foreign policy regarding the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)... more This article evaluates broader trends in Russian foreign policy regarding the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and former CIS states, with particular focus on the period since the wave of colour revolutions. In examining Russian foreign policy towards the CIS under Vladimir Putin, certain common patterns emerge. Scrutinizing those patterns may help to determine the degree to which Georgia fits into Russia’s broader hegemonic regional strategy towards its former colonies.

Benjaminian Reflections: History, Modernity & Poetry

by Rowan Tepper

The Struggle Over Syria

by Zenonas Tziarras

Published on 31/03/2012, on TheGWPost www.thegwpost.com

It is unquestionable that the crisis in Syria is getting worse by the minute. Thousands of people have been killed,... more It is unquestionable that the crisis in Syria is getting worse by the minute. Thousands of people have been killed, hundreds of thousands have fled their homes, and Turkey hosts almost 20,000 refugees. While the account is tragic and discouraging already, the Assad regime does not stop shelling his own country’s cities and killing his own people. In this climate, the international community – if there is such a coherent thing – is trying to manage the crisis. It is true that for most of the international actors involved, what is going on in Syria is unfortunate and they would frankly rather not to be dealing with it.

Berliner Mauer Das Welken der Mauerblümchen (press citation)

by Sune Bechmann Pedersen

Press report quoting my presentation "The Aesthetics of a Collapsing Border: The Fall of the Berlin Wall in German cinema" at the conference: From the Iron Curtain to the Schengen Area: Bordering Communist and Postcommunist Europe, co-organized by Ludwig Boltzmann institute for European History and Public Spheres (LBI EHP); Institute for Human Sciences (IWM); Austrian Academy of Sciences, Historical Commission (ÖAW), Wien, 28-30 September 2011.

The Unfinished Revolution: Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central-Eastern Europe (book review)

by Sune Bechmann Pedersen

Book review published in Scandia - Tidskrift för historisk forskning, 2011:77

"The Greek War of Independence and the Emergence of a Modern Nation-State in Southeastrern Europe (1821-1827)"

by Elpida Vogli

in Plamen Mitev, Ivan Parven, Maria Baramova and Vania Racheva (eds), Empires and Peninsulas: Southeastern Europe between Karlowitz and the Peace of Adrianople, 1600-1829, Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2010, pp. 191-201