![]() Rhodes’s detailed exploration of events of this time constitutes a prehistory of the neoconservatives, demonstrating that the manipulation of government and public opinion with fake intelligence and threat inflation that the administration of George W. ![]() In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration’s unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s, as well as the arms-reduction campaign that followed, and Reagan’s famous 1986 summit meeting with Gorbachev. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb: the story of the entire postwar superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade when the United States and the Soviet Union came within scant hours of nuclear war - and then nearly agreed to abolish nuclear weapons. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments The human condition 1958![]() ![]() After his studies, in 2003 he was invited to join the “Meesterproef,” a young-talent program of the Dutch and Flemish state architects. Hans Teerds (b.1976, Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands) studied architecture and urban design at the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology. ![]() In her 1958 book The Human Condition Arendt sets out a relationship between the world-of-things, and the realm of politics, which Teerds will investigate this relationship between world and politics, which offers a perspective upon architectural design as a form of political thinking. Arendt’s term thus stresses the way we build houses and cities, infrastructures, institutions, as well as how we furnish spaces with tables, chairs, paintings and photographs. Architecture, we might state, is a specific form of spatial thinking: at once concerned about specific spaces and places, but within the framework of ‘the world and its inhabitants.’ For Arendt, the term ‘world’ has a very specific meaning: it encompasses the interventions in the earth, the globe, to make it habitable. It is political, not because it is concerned about a specific space nor place, but since it is concerned about the world and its inhabitants. Spatial thinking is political thinking, the German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) once wrote. Join us on zoom (link below) for a seminar with Hans Teerds ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Andrew sean greer less sequel![]() He grows a handlebar mustache, ditches his signature gray suit, and disguises himself in the bolero-and-cowboy-hat costume of a true "Unitedstatesian". Less roves across the "Mild Mild West," through the South and to his mid-Atlantic birthplace, with an ever-changing posse of writerly characters and his trusty duo - a human-like black pug, Dolly, and a rusty camper van nicknamed Rosina. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again as he accepts a series of literary gigs that send him on a zigzagging adventure across the US. "Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good."įor Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. Description In the follow-up to the "bedazzling, bewitching, and be-wonderful" ( New York Times) best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America. ![]() |