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A. D. Smith

    Anthony D. Smith fut une figure fondamentale dans l'étude interdisciplinaire du nationalisme. Il distingua les formes 'civiques' et 'ethniques' du nationalisme, proposant que toutes les nations possèdent des 'noyaux ethniques' dominants. Tout en reconnaissant la modernité du nationalisme, Smith insistait sur le fait que les nations ont leurs origines dans des ères prémodernes. Son œuvre a exploré le rôle crucial de la mémoire collective et du mythe dans la formation de l'identité nationale.

    Axis Mundi Sum
    • Axis Mundi Sum

      • 484pages
      • 17 heures de lecture
      3,5(10)Évaluer

      Brainwashing! Computer hacking! International intrigue! Psychedelic drugs! Female secret societies! Fringe science! Chinese beer! Walking corpses! The Goddess of Confusion! All the staples of fun and conspiracy meet, shake hands, and get into fistfights in Axis Mundi Sum, a novel where conspirators of all stripes try to further their own ends and make sense of existence. Would-be journalists, freelance criminals, monomaniacal monarchists, dead Taoist sages, sci-fi speedfreaks, computer code fascists, Discordian potentates, lazy college students, Egyptian gods, and more engage in gunplay, mind control, phone phreaking, sexual coercion, disinformation, and other dirty tricks in order to gain the upper hand over anyone they can— with mixed, but always hilarious, results. In a world where someone is pulling everyone’s strings, and it seems there is no escape from the hidden hand of shadowy powers, the only thing that might set you free is good old-fashioned absurdity, and Axis Mundi Sum is the place to find it.

      Axis Mundi Sum