The Romanov Empire and NationalismAlexei MILLER

"The birth of the hospital in the Byzantine Empire". By Timothy S. Miller. Essay review.

Dr Miller is a learned and enterprising historian with a fascinating theme. He shows beyond any doubt that the Western hospital tradition goes back to the early Byzantine Empire in the fourth century AD; that, even in its earliest form, the hospital provided for far more than just the treatment of the sick; that by the seventh century, wards in some large metropolitan hospitals were not only di...

The Romanov Theorem Revised

Let P be the set of all primes and P 2 = P ∪ {p 1 p 2 : p 1 , p 2 ∈ P}. We prove that the sumset 2 P + P 2 = {2 p + q : p ∈ P, q ∈ P 2 } has a positive lower density.

Globish and the empire.

Empire, Islam and the postcolonial

Globalisation, Empire, and the Vampire

In his paper, "Globalisation, Empire, and the Vampire," Mario Vrbančić opens up the question of the possibility of a dialectical utopian thinking in postmodernism. Following Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, Vrbančić analyses the vampire as the nation looking both at Hardt and Negri's theory of Empire and Žižek psychoanalytically inclined theory of nationalist identification. The vampire always o...