Tag: Modern Life
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The Colonizer/Colonized Binary: Semiotics of Power in the 21st Century
Drawing on Adorno and Frankfurt School critique, this essay examines how colonial hierarchies persist within global capitalism’s “Culture Industry.” Through mechanisms of mobility, representation, and extraction—manifested in urban geography, digital labor, Hollywood narratives, and intimate relationships—the colonizer/colonized distinction operates as an invisible empire that shapes consciousness, identity, and power.
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The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt: Between Totalitarianism and Freedom
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was an original and very clear-sighted political philosopher in the twentieth century. Her work, emerging from the experiences of totalitarianism and exile, offers a distinctive vision of political life that continues to be relevant for our contemporary challenges to democracy and human dignity. This post explores Arendt’s central contributions to political thought, […]
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Shared Humanity in a Divided World?
Tribalisms create group cohesion and bonding, but it also leads to division and conflict. Our task today is to articulate the basis for a shared and universal humanity. How does the concept of solidarity exist in the psyche? We need to move towards a more flexible, holistic understanding of identity, towards greater compassion and unity.
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Meaning or Presence? Time in Contemporary Culture
A new way of experiencing time is emerging in contemporary culture, influenced by globalization and technology. People seek to deepen and expand a sense of presence, and what fades away is a corner stone of modernity, the Cartesian subject: the expanded present challenges the idea of a subject who acts based on past experiences and future projections.