Recent scholars have been captivated by the indeterminate potentialities that decadence sets not in contradiction to, but disarming misstep with, Victorian claims of individual, social, and global systems operating harmoniously toward a singular order. These also happened to privilege aspirations middle class, patriarchal machinery, white British colonial expansionism, anthropocentric privilege...

ibn-khaldun,s social change theory has been often classified as cyclic theoty of social changes that has three stages includes in generation, growth and progress and ultimately regressive and decadence. but, what is inferred by rethink in text of ibn-khaldun,s moghaddame, are two different courses,as interrelated to each other, “civilizational evolution” and “cyclic changes of state.avoiding ma...

Will Self’s Dorian: An Imitation (2002) provides a glimpse to the gay subculture of 1980s’ London and New York, contextualizes issues like AIDS epidemic liberation movement. The shown attributes including queer fashion trends, drug consumptions, unprotected sex even at risk HIV transmission parallel hedonistic counter-normative ‘decadent’ aspects Oscar Wilde’s source–text, Picture Dorian Gray (...

In the 4th century BC Greek historiography abandons monographic genre to propose a general interpretation of history: possible interpretative key is that tryphé, excessive luxury corrupts and leads an unstoppable decadence cities, peoples states. The first theoretical elaboration tryphé-decadence nexus occurs in historiographical work Ephorus Cyme Timaeus Tauromenium. later historiography, howe...

Red pines Pinus resinosa in Garrett and Allegany counties, Maryland, were examined during 1982-84 to determine distribution of the pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, within and among trees. Approximately 25-year-old (younger) and 47-year-old (older) trees were subdivided into the following categories: 1) trees with mostly green needles; 2) trees with mostly reddish-brown needles; 3)...