Sublime

Focus has again shifted from mere ‘happiness’ to the more meaningful concept of ‘value’, in an attempt to reconcile the alienation that Marx sensed between man and his God, his work and his fellow creatures. Rather than seek transcendence through a journey into the self (as the Romantics encouraged), the very notion of the self was now seen as dang

Was in anderen medialen Zeiten ein John F. Kennedy, eine Mutter Teresa, ein Nelson Mandela oder in Frankreich Simone Weil waren - anerkannt über die politischen Lager hinweg -, solch eine Person wäre heute Ansporn und Auftrag für die digitalen Hassfabriken der ganzen Welt.

The dominant regime of political economy in the West since 1971, and particularly acute since 2009, has been built on a set of related economic fallacies: There are no adverse consequences to manipulating the price and supply of money; economic well-being can be measured by increases in flows of revenue rather than the growth rate of profit over ca

Daniel J. Solove, a law professor who writes about privacy and surveillance, argues that the novel presciently captures the dilemma of the modern subject of information technologies. Concerns about data collection and predictive analytics, he argues, have focused too much on Orwellian fears—the notion that the state is surveilling our most private

have to commit yourself to the manifesto your party has adopted, usually somewhere along a spectrum that ranges, in Macaulay’s language, from reckless empiricism at one end to ignorant bigotry at the other. Or to put it in more temperate language, between those who find change and experiment seductive and those who find it repellent, the old tensio