The Contemporary Turn

Reframing Utopia: Contemporary Brazilian Cinema at the Turn of the Century

The fall of the Berlin wall in 9 November 1989 marked the end of the socialist Utopia and the victory of post-modern, anti-utopian neo-liberalism. A few months later, in 1990, Francis Fukuyama published his polemical article ‘The End of History and the Last Man’, subsequently expanded into a bestselling book. Also in 1990 the master of puns Jean-Luc Godard shot a film with the apt title Allemag...

To the Framingham data, turn, turn, turn.

Constitutional Fidelity, The Rule of Recognition, and the Communitarian Turn In Contemporary Positivism

globalization and the democratic turn in iran

globalization and democracy have become the most debated issues throughout the world, which, no doubt also influence iran. this paper highlights these phenomena with respect to iran but takes up the issue through various description and features presented by the con-temporary socio- political thinkers and economists. considering globalization, although the subject matter is very recent but iran...

Turn, Turn, Turn: Predicting Turning Points in Economic Activity

strength and duration, that have, so far, characterized economic activity. January 31, 2001: Preliminary real GDP growth for the fourth quarter is barely above 1 percent, more than 4 percentage points below what is was only two quarters before and about 7 percentage points below its level in the third quarter of 1999. Much of the press, and some forecasters, predict that the first quarter of 20...