One key paradigmatic subtext of Naomi Klein’s argument runs in her The Shock Doctrine (London: Penguin, 2008) is how the supposed undemocratic, violent character of ‘‘totalitarian’’ Marxist movements serve to justify repressive measures by the neo-liberal state. In inviting such a repressive response from the state, ‘‘undemocratic’’ revolutionary left movements are presented as causing the eros...

before the islamic revolution, iran, like other countries, was consisted of structures. the actions of pahlavi discourse invoked the tensions within these structures and led to the formation of gaps and conflicts in the structures. such circumstances raised structural imbalance that put pressure on social forces and promoted the view that current situation was unjust, inefficient and backward. ...

On rare occasions in the history of science, remarkable discoveries transform human society and forever alter mankind's view of the world. Examples of such discoveries include the heliocentric theory, Newtonian physics, the germ theory of disease, quantum theory, plate tectonics and the discovery that DNA carries genetic information. The science philosopher Thomas Kuhn famously described scienc...

The optimization of dynamic problems is both widespread and difficult. When conducting dynamic optimization, a balance between reinitialization and computational expense has to be found. There are multiple approaches to this. In parallel genetic algorithms, multiple sub-populations concurrently try to optimize a potentially dynamic problem. But as the number of sub-population increases, their e...

Radical cities have historically been hotbeds of transformative paradigms, political changes, activism, and social movements, given rise to visionary ideas, utopian projects, revolutionary ideologies, debates. These served as incubators for innovative idealistic philosophies, lively The streets, squares, public spaces radical the backdrop protests, uprisings, movements that had both local globa...

would like to thank Karen Remmer for her guidance in the grant proposal process which made the field work possible and Ken Roberts and Ken Coleman for reading many drafts. I would also like to thank the members of the Frente Democrático Campesino. This work would not have been possible without all of their generous help. 2 Introduction The research on social movements and popular organizing 1 i...

The aim of this article is to document, contextualise, and theorise the rebellious actions carried out by artists in Slovenia 2020–2021, present these as a continuation avant-garde movements twentieth century. We focus on diverse protests strong alliance artists, anti-capitalists, anti-fascists, ecological movements, other civil structures that continue challenge oppressive autocratic powers. W...

Nineteen eighty-nine marked the 25th anniversary of the publication of Herbert Marcuse's influential critique of "advanced industrial society," One Dimensional Man. Of the many books that Marcuse was to write during the 1960's and 70's, One Dimensional Man was the first o address the central concerns of the then emerging student and New Left movements. Ironically, a book that: analyzed the prof...