This essay is concerned with where the current of global political and economic events runs. It addresses this concern by erecting an argument in three stages. First, a string being theory (SBT) is outlined. Second, this theory is used to formulate an SBT approach to imperialism, one that might be imagined as Lenin by alternative (theoretical) means, emphasizing the role of violent force. The 'seven deadly sirens'—generalizations that predict the exercise of violent force under different conditions in imperial systems—are introduced. Third, certain post-1945 US government uses of violence are analyzed in terms of their fit with the seven sirens' predictions. Oil depletion is considered as contributing to systemic crisis in capital accumulation, and its role in Gulf War II is explored. It is concluded that US government violence is consistent with the sirens' predictions. The essay terminates with speculation about where the current runs.
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American imperialism?
Steve Reyna
Sinophobia, American Imperialism, Disorder Without Responsibility
Shuchen Xiang
In this paper, I endeavor to clarify how modern anti-Asian racism and Sinophobia generally must be understood in light of the larger political and ideological framework of American imperialism and that it is not possible to understand modern anti
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Republican Imperialisms
Narrating the History of “Empire” in France, 1885–1900
Christina Carroll
harness the force of its empire more effectively, as each colony would “freely” contribute its energies toward French goals. 2 In these articles, Saint-Paul worked to reclaim the terms “empire” and “imperialism” from Bonapartist politics. He likely did so
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Dec 2018
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“Space without People”
Austro-German Filmmaker, Bestselling Author, and Journalist Colin Ross Discovers Australia
Siegfried Mattl
context of modern technology, education, science, media revolution, identity-production, and colonialism or imperialism ( Ruoff 2006 ). Jennifer Peterson in her analysis of early American travel films went further by ascribing a kind of resistance to non
German Colonial Rule in Present-day Namibia
The Struggle for Discursive Shifts in History Education
Patrick Mielke
perceptions. The article is based on a chapter from my dissertation in which I explore the enactment of belonging and difference in German history instruction based on an examination of German history lesson units on imperialism. 4 After presenting
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
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Globalizing the Intellectual History of Democracy
Samuel Moyn and Jean-Paul Gagnon
necessity and choice. The experience of modern imperialism and global Cold War competition had the effect of eradicating most competition ideologically – the ecosystem, as it were, got winnowed down substantially, since the war was over the exact form of
Girl in American Flag Hijab
Noha Beydoun
American imperialism. The visual of donning an American flag hijab encapsulates an embodiment of a liberated/oppressed binary that emerges when notions of freedom are mediated through hijab. Using David Harvey's (2005) theory on neoliberalism as a
Invoking a World of Ideas
Theory and Interpretation in the Justification of Colonialism
David Boucher
contingent on those circumstances, but the veracity of the arguments depend on the constellation of ideas as a whole. The history of the European colonisation of non-European territories and subsequent policies of imperialism illustrate a general tendency
Critiquing Sub-Saharan Pan-Africanism through an Appraisal of Postcolonial African Modernity
Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi
a space for the ideology of pan-Africanism. The central argument of the article, however, is that the developmental paradigm driving pan-Africanism gives support to Western imperialism, which stands against the ultimate dream of pan-Africanism. The
Eyewitness Accounts during the Putumayo Rubber Boom
Manuel Antonio Mesones Muro—the “Madman of the Marañon River,” Cárlos Oyague y Calderón—the State Engineer, and Roger Casement—“Not of the Real World” Humanitarian
Rupert J. M. Medd and Hélène Guyot
invention of distinct national identities, the establishment of firm racial hierarchies, the consolidation of narratives of progress, development, scientific advance, and white supremacy; those were the ideologies that made imperialism possible. Yet the very