Suchergebnisse

Pirate and mermaid -- A Christian turn'd Turk -- Democracy by assassination -- A company of rogues -- An alabaster palace in Tunisia -- The Moorish republic of Salé -- Murad Reis and the sack of Baltimore -- The corsair's calendar -- Pirate utopias -- Afterword : a Moorish pirate in old New York

Discusses the present state & potential achievements of the body & discourse in modern society. It is argued that scientists & historians have rejected certain social & cultural phenomena by disavowal of the premises on which the phenomena are founded (eg, UFO [unidentified flying objects] hysteria does not exist since UFOs do not exist). Such rejection has limited the scope of these fields. The concept of boundary violations is fundamental to the postmodern perspective, & it is suggested that these border crossings have been traditionally viewed as threatening & dangerous. Further, the rigid definitions of boundaries have led to extremist religious & political actions such as ethnic cleansing & national isolationism. Even the liberal proponents of multiculturalism are engaged in the separation of people (through cultural categorization) & the rejection of border crossings, a situation exacerbated by modern communication technologies. 2 References. T. Sevier

Tehran has been thought of as simply a mistake. Fifty years ago Western "advisors" would incredulously demand of their Iranian hosts, "You call this a city? This is nothing but an overgrown garden." Obligingly the Iranians eradicated the garden and built Tehran. Maddeningly now the foreigners are more incredulous than ever. "You call this a city? This is simply a concrete wasteland!" Most of the foreigners who come here are simply peddling better mousetraps, however. Aside from the carpetbaggers there are a few visitors, who feel as if they were being forced to look at a distorted reflection of themselves in some grotesque carnival mirror. Here they find the doctrines of progress and the dogmas of development parodied by overearnest disciples; nowadays some of the most vehement proponents of the "Western" concepts of materialism are Easterners.