The Great Awakening vs The Great Reset

This is Part 2 of a series on the writing of Dugin (see Part 1 here). This post highlights some key points the author makes in his book The Great Awakening vs The Great Reset, translated into English in 2021 (a very short book, more like an essay at 86 pages of well spaced text). […]

Tags: #Civilizations #Dugin #Globalism #Nominalism #The Great Awakening vs The Great Reset

Fourth Political Theory

This is the first of a series of posts on (translated) works by Alexander Dugin, a Russian philosopher who is suggested to have significant (in)direct influence over the way Putin sees the world. The first book explored in this series is “The Fourth Political Theory”, written in 2009 and translated in 2012. Much has been […]

Tags: #Dugin #Fourth Political Theory #Ideology #Modernity #Political Philosophy

The Perfect Nine

I have posted about a number of Ngugi wa Thiongo’s academic books (Decolonizing the Mind, Theory and Politics of Knowing, Something Torn and New, Moving the Centre, Secure the Base). For those who know him, Ngugi did not start as an academic and most of his work is non-academic – he has authored much more in the […]

Worldmaking After Empire

Building on a PhD project, Adom Getachew’s “Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination” (2019) explores the ways some leaders and struggles for freedom and dignity were engaged beyond nation-building (of what would become the independent country) but also worldmaking as they engaged with international systems (economic, legal, political). A few notes: “The nationalist movement […]

Tags: #Adom Getachew #anti-imperialism #Colonialism #postcolonial state #Worldmaking

Land to the Tiller

One of Ethiopia’s most radical policy changes in the modern era was land reform, which nullified tenure agreements and redistributed land (changing much of rural Ethiopia from large land holders with farmers as tenants / sharecroppers to farmers as landowners). Ann Oosthuizen (whose connection to this issue or interviewee is not explained) published an interview […]

Tags: #Ethiopia #Land #Land Reform #Land to the Tiller #Zegeye Asfaw

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

We are increasingly surrounded by technology, the data collection it employs is not only pervasive but also seemingly unescapable. In 2019 Shoshana Zuboff wrote “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power”, which has gone viral (for a social sciences academic-ish book), being cited nearly 10,000 times […]

Tags: #Ethics #Justice #Power #Privacy #Surveillance Capitalism