Footnotes2Plato

“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
–Alfred North Whitehead

No one is in control…

…because power has left the nation-state; politics has been overcome by financial flows. -Zygmunt Bauman

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2 responses to “No one is in control…”

  1. dmfant Avatar
    dmfant

    http://fora.tv/2012/11/28/Ecologist_Peter_Warshall_Enchanted_by_the_Sun

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  2. motleycow Avatar
    motleycow

    Couldn’t it be said that we witnessed a return of the nation state under Bush? It’s this oscillation between America as 1) a faceless corporation and 2) a totalist state reminiscent of nazism that I find so juvenile in contemporary leftist debate.

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