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Idoltary and Its Discontents

May 27th, 2009 | By Omer Khalid | Category: Art, Culture and Literature

Amid rhetorical dust-storms over purported Islamist threats to Western values, Sven Lütticken finds antecedents for contemporary struggles over the image in Judaic and Protestant bans on idolatry. Multiple meanings of the veil and varying forms of iconoclasm, under the aegis of the spectacle.

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How to begin from the beginning

May 25th, 2009 | By Omer Khalid | Category: Featured, Theory

War against all odds, had to retreat into the New Economic Policy of allowing a much wider scope to the market economy and private property—Lenin uses the analogy of a climber who must backtrack from his first attempt to reach a new mountain peak to describe what retreat means in a revolutionary process

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