Francis Fukayama in his discussion of the Islamist movement and its threat to modernity utilizes a certain logic of history. Societies through their governments evolve in a gradual, linear process until they reach a final form characterized by liberal, democratic capitalism-the famous end of history thesis-as exemplified by Western countries. Fukayama universalizes this conception of history because, according to him, it is based on the scientific method of interpretation, and, thus, proceeds to explain the events in the Muslim/Arab world through this prism of historiography. However, it is the purpose of this paper to challenge Fukayama 's language of history as being more ideological rather than scientific, and posit an alternate and more scientific model of historiography as developed by Manuel De Landa. Various interpretations of the Islamist movement provide support for De Landa 's method of looking at history. On a more practical level, the failure of several development projects shows the danger of taking on the neo-liberal, market-oriented vision as the ultimate paradigm for societies, as advocated by Fukayama
{"title":"Theoretical and Practical Challenges to Francis Fukayama s End of History Thesis","authors":"Melmet Kucukozer","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5200","url":null,"abstract":"Francis Fukayama in his discussion of the Islamist movement and its threat to modernity utilizes a certain logic of history. Societies through their governments evolve in a gradual, linear process until they reach a final form characterized by liberal, democratic capitalism-the famous end of history thesis-as exemplified by Western countries. Fukayama universalizes this conception of history because, according to him, it is based on the scientific method of interpretation, and, thus, proceeds to explain the events in the Muslim/Arab world through this prism of historiography. However, it is the purpose of this paper to challenge Fukayama 's language of history as being more ideological rather than scientific, and posit an alternate and more scientific model of historiography as developed by Manuel De Landa. Various interpretations of the Islamist movement provide support for De Landa 's method of looking at history. On a more practical level, the failure of several development projects shows the danger of taking on the neo-liberal, market-oriented vision as the ultimate paradigm for societies, as advocated by Fukayama","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129504475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It's late November 2002 on a drizzly, cold day in Washington, D.C., a little more than a year after four hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsyl vania killing more than 3,000 people. In one of the bewildering number of Starbucks ofFDupont Circle, Jeff Bezos, iconoclast lead er of the mega online e-tailer Amazon.com, and John Poindexter, then director of the Pentagon's Office of Information Awareness, meet. Bezos orders a low-fat latte. Poindexter, ex-Regan national security advisor and a convicted felon charged with lying to Con gress and obstruction of justice, takes an Americano (of course). Poindexter gets right to the point. Poindexter: "Jeff, we have a problem. The world has changed dramatically. During the years I was in the White House it was relatively simple to identify our intelligence collection targets. Today, the most serious asymmetric threat facing the United States is terrorism, a threat characterized by collections of people loose ly organized in shadowy networks that are difficult to identify and define and whose goals are the destruction of our way of life. The intelligence collection targets are thousands of people whose iden tities and whereabouts we do not always know. It is somewhat analogous to the antisubmarine warfare problem of finding sub marines in an ocean of noise—we must find the terrorists in a world of noise, to understand what they are planning, and develop options for preventing their attacks. I think the solution is largely associated with information technology. We must become much
{"title":"The Culture of Surveillance Revisited: Total Information Awareness and the New Privacy Landscape","authors":"W. Staples","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5201","url":null,"abstract":"It's late November 2002 on a drizzly, cold day in Washington, D.C., a little more than a year after four hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsyl vania killing more than 3,000 people. In one of the bewildering number of Starbucks ofFDupont Circle, Jeff Bezos, iconoclast lead er of the mega online e-tailer Amazon.com, and John Poindexter, then director of the Pentagon's Office of Information Awareness, meet. Bezos orders a low-fat latte. Poindexter, ex-Regan national security advisor and a convicted felon charged with lying to Con gress and obstruction of justice, takes an Americano (of course). Poindexter gets right to the point. Poindexter: \"Jeff, we have a problem. The world has changed dramatically. During the years I was in the White House it was relatively simple to identify our intelligence collection targets. Today, the most serious asymmetric threat facing the United States is terrorism, a threat characterized by collections of people loose ly organized in shadowy networks that are difficult to identify and define and whose goals are the destruction of our way of life. The intelligence collection targets are thousands of people whose iden tities and whereabouts we do not always know. It is somewhat analogous to the antisubmarine warfare problem of finding sub marines in an ocean of noise—we must find the terrorists in a world of noise, to understand what they are planning, and develop options for preventing their attacks. I think the solution is largely associated with information technology. We must become much","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115973630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JG: Because they're both different. The colloquium talk is sort of the beginning of a project I've been working on for, I guess, a year and a half now—it's taking me a long time to get the data analyzed—that was sparked by, I think it was sparked by an e mail that I'll quote to you guys in the colloquium, written by an activist, by a guy who used to be publisher of OUT magazine, about the specter of monopoly in gay and lesbian press. And it sounded just like the things people were saying when AOL and Time Warner merged. You know, every time there is a big merg er, there is the specter of monopoly from left-wing media critics. And I can identify with that side of media criticism, but I thought that was just kind of weird for a couple of reasons. First of all, the idea that gay and lesbian culture was developed enough that we could have our own media giant was funny—I'm used to just the little bar newspapers. So whereas, on the one hand this is a weird, hopeful sign—almost a backward hopeful sign—that we
{"title":"STAR Interview with Josh Gamson 10/10/2003","authors":"Heather E. Burgess","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5205","url":null,"abstract":"JG: Because they're both different. The colloquium talk is sort of the beginning of a project I've been working on for, I guess, a year and a half now—it's taking me a long time to get the data analyzed—that was sparked by, I think it was sparked by an e mail that I'll quote to you guys in the colloquium, written by an activist, by a guy who used to be publisher of OUT magazine, about the specter of monopoly in gay and lesbian press. And it sounded just like the things people were saying when AOL and Time Warner merged. You know, every time there is a big merg er, there is the specter of monopoly from left-wing media critics. And I can identify with that side of media criticism, but I thought that was just kind of weird for a couple of reasons. First of all, the idea that gay and lesbian culture was developed enough that we could have our own media giant was funny—I'm used to just the little bar newspapers. So whereas, on the one hand this is a weird, hopeful sign—almost a backward hopeful sign—that we","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126550200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As the 2004 Clark Lecturer at the University of Kansas, Joshua Gamson delivered an accessible and provocative discussion re garding the "gaying of straight men" in the mainstream media. Gamson's lecture addressed the recent media hits "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and "Boy Meets Boy" as a means to discuss the new "Gay Tele-Visibility." Like the experience of most marginal ized groups, the depiction of homosexuality on television has a torrid past. Suffering from a lack of cultural visibility, cast as vil lains or ill, depicted as full of self-hate, and as sexual predators, media representation of gays, lesbians and trans-gender individu als meant that organizing for basic rights was difficult at best. While these are no longer the primary depictions of gay men, Gamson's point in this piece is to illustrate that cultural visibility is not with out its problems. The celebration of gayness in television in recent years is certainly preferable to being cast as demons, yet televi sion prompts the question "If heterosexuality depends in part on its opposite, and homosexual difference is no longer so reliable, what happens to the straight man and his supposed superiority? " (Gamson, 2005:5) The answer resides in the "difference-game" where determining the sexuality of characters, real or fiction, is the key theme of the show. The answer to the difference game lies in the characterization of gay men as master consumers and in structors of upper middle class status. This "difference," argues Gamson is celebrated by current television programs while simul taneously "normalizing" a particular segment of the gay popula tion. Gay tele-visibility, defined as the presence of gay men/char
{"title":"The Contradictions of Gay Tele-Visibility: A Reaction to Gamson","authors":"Tori Barnes-Brus","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5206","url":null,"abstract":"As the 2004 Clark Lecturer at the University of Kansas, Joshua Gamson delivered an accessible and provocative discussion re garding the \"gaying of straight men\" in the mainstream media. Gamson's lecture addressed the recent media hits \"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy\" and \"Boy Meets Boy\" as a means to discuss the new \"Gay Tele-Visibility.\" Like the experience of most marginal ized groups, the depiction of homosexuality on television has a torrid past. Suffering from a lack of cultural visibility, cast as vil lains or ill, depicted as full of self-hate, and as sexual predators, media representation of gays, lesbians and trans-gender individu als meant that organizing for basic rights was difficult at best. While these are no longer the primary depictions of gay men, Gamson's point in this piece is to illustrate that cultural visibility is not with out its problems. The celebration of gayness in television in recent years is certainly preferable to being cast as demons, yet televi sion prompts the question \"If heterosexuality depends in part on its opposite, and homosexual difference is no longer so reliable, what happens to the straight man and his supposed superiority? \" (Gamson, 2005:5) The answer resides in the \"difference-game\" where determining the sexuality of characters, real or fiction, is the key theme of the show. The answer to the difference game lies in the characterization of gay men as master consumers and in structors of upper middle class status. This \"difference,\" argues Gamson is celebrated by current television programs while simul taneously \"normalizing\" a particular segment of the gay popula tion. Gay tele-visibility, defined as the presence of gay men/char","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125158025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
During the 1960s, many gay men experienced American culture as domination, as an intrusive and oppressive force outside their im mediate control. The material side of this domination took the ob vious, in-your-face forms of police raids and entrapment, exclu sion from meaningful social interactions such as family and church, and at its worst, incarceration and institutionalization. But there was also an internal, affective experience of domination, which arose from the continual stream of information about homosexual
{"title":"Overcoming Domination through Self-Representation: Gay Men s Experience in 1960s San Francisco","authors":"J. Ormsbee","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5202","url":null,"abstract":"During the 1960s, many gay men experienced American culture as domination, as an intrusive and oppressive force outside their im mediate control. The material side of this domination took the ob vious, in-your-face forms of police raids and entrapment, exclu sion from meaningful social interactions such as family and church, and at its worst, incarceration and institutionalization. But there was also an internal, affective experience of domination, which arose from the continual stream of information about homosexual","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132768841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
During the 1960s, it seemed like everything changed. The youth culture shook up the status quo of the United States with its inves titure in the counterculture, drugs, and rock and roll. Students turned their universities upside-down with the spirit of protest as they fought for free speech and equality and against the Vietnam War. Many previously ignored groups, such as African Americans and women, stood up for their rights. Radical politics began to challenge the primacy of the staid old national parties. "The Kids" were now in charge, and the traditional social and cultural roles were being challenged. Everything old was old-fashioned, and the future had never seemed more unknown.
{"title":"Why Don t You Take Your Dress Off and Fight Like a Man? Homosexuality and the 1960s Crisis of Masculinity in The Gay Deceivers","authors":"Brian J. Woodman","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5204","url":null,"abstract":"During the 1960s, it seemed like everything changed. The youth culture shook up the status quo of the United States with its inves titure in the counterculture, drugs, and rock and roll. Students turned their universities upside-down with the spirit of protest as they fought for free speech and equality and against the Vietnam War. Many previously ignored groups, such as African Americans and women, stood up for their rights. Radical politics began to challenge the primacy of the staid old national parties. \"The Kids\" were now in charge, and the traditional social and cultural roles were being challenged. Everything old was old-fashioned, and the future had never seemed more unknown.","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125125581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
If you turned on your television in the summer of 2003, you most likely encountered the Fab 5. Their TV show, "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," had quickly become a hit for the cable network Bravo, whose partner NBC then also picked up the program. In each episode the Fab 5 take a slovenly heterosexual man and give him and his space a makeover, just in time for the straight guy to impress his girlfriend, potential girlfriend, wife, or womankind more generally. The Fab 5, each of whom has a special exper tise—grooming, culture, food and wine, interior decorating, and fashion—are funny, warm, and witty. Straight men thank the Fab 5 profusely, praise them to their friends, and hug them; straight women gush about and around them. They have appeared on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Oprah," the MTV Video Music Awards, and the season premiere of the NBC sitcom "Good Morning, Miami." They have been parodied on Fox's "Mad TV," and inspired a Comedy Central take-off, "Straight Plan for the Gay Man." "Queer Eye" has often drawn over 3 million viewers, more than twice the number of viewers any Bravo show had pre viously attracted, often beating out the major networks for view ers; when NBC first aired it, the show drew 7 million viewers and tied for first in its time slot among 18-49-year-old viewers (Wein raub and Rutenberg 2003). In 2004, NBC ran a "Queer Eye" mar athon on Super Bowl Sunday. "Queer Eye for the Straight Girl," a spinoff, will begin airing in 2005. Bravo has sold the show to twenty countries (della Cava 2004).
如果你在2003年夏天打开电视，你很可能会看到Fab 5。他们的电视节目《同性恋之眼》(Queer Eye for the Straight Guy)迅速成为有线电视网Bravo的热门节目，Bravo的合作伙伴NBC随后也接拍了这档节目。在每一集里，Fab 5都把一个邋遢的异性恋男人和他的空间改造了一番，正好让这个直男给他的女朋友、潜在女朋友、妻子或更普遍的女性留下深刻印象。“Fab 5”每个人都有自己的专长——打扮、文化、美食和葡萄酒、室内装饰和时尚——他们风趣、热情、机智。直男们由衷地感谢Fab 5，在朋友面前称赞他们，拥抱他们;直女在他们周围滔滔不绝。他们出现在美国全国广播公司的《杰·雷诺今夜秀》、《奥普拉脱口秀》、MTV音乐录影带大奖以及美国全国广播公司情景喜剧《早安，迈阿密》的首映式上。他们在福克斯的《疯狂电视》(Mad TV)中被模仿，并激发了喜剧中心(Comedy Central)的一部热门剧集《男同志的直男计划》(Straight Plan for the Gay Man)。《酷儿眼》经常吸引300多万观众，是Bravo电视台此前任何一部剧集吸引观众人数的两倍多，经常在观众数量上击败主要电视网;美国全国广播公司首次播出时，吸引了700万观众，在18-49岁的观众中并列第一(Wein raub and Rutenberg 2003)。2004年，美国全国广播公司在超级碗周日举办了一场“酷儿之眼”马拉松比赛。衍生剧《Queer Eye for the Straight Girl》将于2005年开播。Bravo电视台已经把这部剧卖给了20个国家(della Cava 2004)。
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This essay examines three competing interpretations of the 'Founding Fathers' that were made in the contested political climate of the 1980s. The first is Marc Plattner's neoclassical economic interpretation that stresses Madisonian principles of law, property rights, and the danger of majoritarian rule to justify a minimal rule-based government and free market capitalism. The second is Robert Bellah's communitarian-democratic interpretation, which appeals to the Founders and our republican traditions to critique excessive individualism and advance a more democratic politics governed by the norms of civic virtue. The third approach considered is the anti-Federalist critique of the Founders by Sheldon Wolin, who sees in the Constitution the beginnings of a system of national capitalism and state power that undermined localized and democratic political culture. Each approach will be assessed for its contribution toward a more participatory notion of public life.
{"title":"In Search of Civic Virtue : On the Use of the Founders in Political Discourse","authors":"Patrick J. Akard","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5193","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines three competing interpretations of the 'Founding Fathers' that were made in the contested political climate of the 1980s. The first is Marc Plattner's neoclassical economic interpretation that stresses Madisonian principles of law, property rights, and the danger of majoritarian rule to justify a minimal rule-based government and free market capitalism. The second is Robert Bellah's communitarian-democratic interpretation, which appeals to the Founders and our republican traditions to critique excessive individualism and advance a more democratic politics governed by the norms of civic virtue. The third approach considered is the anti-Federalist critique of the Founders by Sheldon Wolin, who sees in the Constitution the beginnings of a system of national capitalism and state power that undermined localized and democratic political culture. Each approach will be assessed for its contribution toward a more participatory notion of public life.","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129434041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Considering climate change and globalization together as a research topic can illuminate the structures and processes of both. Globalization and climate change theories can be categorized as economic, political, and cultural on one dimension, and on another dimension as emphasizing the conflicts between the global and national/local levels, the dominance of the global, or the hybrids and pastiches created by mixing the global and local. Climate change, as an issue that creates and is created by a global sense of the world, is bound up in both its analysis and its policy proposals with the same issues that confront globalization theorists. The proliferation of theories and analyses in globalization and climate change reflects the emerging nature of both areas of social scientific thought. Activities and 'flows are changing too rapidly to be satisfactorily categorized and mapped. Moreover, there are no clear advantages to one form of action, since all phenomena are multifaceted, with bundled positive, neutral, and negative characteristics. However, the very explosion of ideas and proposals reflects the energy and willingness to seek future directions that will bring increased well-being for both humans and the environment.
{"title":"Hot Topics: Globalization and Climate Change","authors":"E. Malone","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5192","url":null,"abstract":"Considering climate change and globalization together as a research topic can illuminate the structures and processes of both. Globalization and climate change theories can be categorized as economic, political, and cultural on one dimension, and on another dimension as emphasizing the conflicts between the global and national/local levels, the dominance of the global, or the hybrids and pastiches created by mixing the global and local. Climate change, as an issue that creates and is created by a global sense of the world, is bound up in both its analysis and its policy proposals with the same issues that confront globalization theorists. The proliferation of theories and analyses in globalization and climate change reflects the emerging nature of both areas of social scientific thought. Activities and 'flows are changing too rapidly to be satisfactorily categorized and mapped. Moreover, there are no clear advantages to one form of action, since all phenomena are multifaceted, with bundled positive, neutral, and negative characteristics. However, the very explosion of ideas and proposals reflects the energy and willingness to seek future directions that will bring increased well-being for both humans and the environment.","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115113528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dans cet article, l'A compare les conceptions de la notion de pluralisme chez John Rawls et Jean-Francois Lyotard. L'A analyse les travaux concernant le liberalisme politique de Rawls pour s'interesser a l'ouvrage de Lyotard, La Condition Postmoderne. L'A etudie les points de convergence et de divergence de ces penseurs sociaux et souligne la portee de leur influence politique et philosophique
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