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Tag Archives: Modernism
Superpowers and Concrete Towers: Katsuhiro Otomo’s ‘Domu: A Child’s Dream’
By Patrick Haddad Source: We Are the Mutants In 1989, almost a year after it was released in Japan, the Western world was given its first cinematic taste of anime with the sci-fi epic Akira. Acclaimed writer Katsuhiro Otomo’s vision … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, History, media, Philosophy, society, Sociology
Tagged Akira, Architecture, Art, culture, Domu, Domu: A Child's Dream, Dystopia, Japan, Katsuhiro Otomo, Manga, Modernism, Science fiction, society
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A Skeleton Key to the Alt Left
Source: the HipCrime Vocab Last time we looked at the differences between the “Left” as manifested in the mainstream political discourse and those of a number of authors, blogger and thinkers that I’ve (somewhat arbitrarily) lumped under the umbrella of … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Alt-Left, Alt-Right, capitalism, Classical Economics, Collapse, Communism, Corporate Globalization, economic crisis, Economics, environment, Eurocentric Modernism, Eurocentrism, Karl Polanyi, Modernism, Neoliberalism, Progress, Rajani Kanth
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