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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Peter Berger and the Sociology of Religion: Between Sacred Canopy and Pluralism

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For Peter Berger, religion was never simply about private belief or abstract theology. It was first and foremost a social phenomenon — somet...
Monday, November 3, 2025

After Walter Benjamin: The Afterlife of a Fragmented Thinker

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Walter Benjamin died in 1940, on the edge of Europe and of history, carrying a briefcase that, according to legend, contained the manuscrip...

Globalization from Below: The Other Side of the Map

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When people say "globalization," they usually mean something like Amazon, NATO, or Taylor Swift's world tour. That is, power f...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

Fredric Jameson and Walter Benjamin: The Politics of Memory in Modernity

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Few intellectual pairings illuminate the modern experience of time more profoundly than  Walter Benjamin  and Fredric Jameson . Though separ...

Fashion as Form and Field: Simmel and Bourdieu in Conversation

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“Fashion… leads the individual on the road to equality, but... also the need for differentiation.” — Georg Simmel “Taste classifies, and it...
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Transcendence without Dogma: Jaspers and Heidegger on the Question of Being

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Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger stand as two towering German thinkers of the twentieth century, often placed side by side in histories o...

Roland Robertson's Concept of Glocalization - definition

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In " Glocalization:Time-Space and Homogeneity-Heterogeneity " sociologist Roland Robertson suggests replacing the concept of gl...