The Present
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How the modern world came to be as it is and what it’s like to be alive now.
Caution! Under Construction
Please be aware that this tag is still under construction and as such is missing information and may be changed or removed at any time. For all the content under consideration for this tag, see the “The Present” folder on Google Drive.
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Books (20)
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The mountain is in fact an industrial park in Hsinchu, a coastal city southwest of Taipei. Its shrine bears an unassuming name: the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
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This essay examines consumption patterns in various regions in the world during the Fin De Siècle, with an organization by region.
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I interpret the fin de Siècle through concepts and experiences of time and space that were reinterpreted in high culture, reworked by new communication and transportation technologies, and palpably manifest in everyday life.
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That’s the last war you’ll ever fight. So we need to find a way of avoiding total war. ‘And here’s the way,’ Clausewitz says. We can avoid it if we allow the political rational to govern war.
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The truth is
money is in war, not poetry…5 min -
It used to embarrass me when my father talked back to the TV.
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