Character assassination is a timeless cross-cultural phenomenon. It has been observed by historians as an instrument of social influence, propaganda, and coercion for centuries. In Ancient Rome, ...
The disputes that take place in society, between left and right, however tense they may be, and however they unfold in unexpected ways, can be seen as superficial skirmishes, since they maintain ...
https://socialtheoryapplied.com/2021/02/10/the-ontological-conservatism-and-the-new-left/
While one’s class position can cause identity issues, it is also the case that the great promise of democracy and meritocracy, of the capacity to mobilise between classes and maintain an upward...
https://socialtheoryapplied.com/2021/01/18/class-mobility-and-the-limbo-identity/
As a College-Based Higher Education (CBHE) course leader I continually, and often frustratingly, question what is happening and how decisions are made that affect my work, usually as I open an em...
Movies that have feminist themes (or LGBTQI+), at least in pop culture, are usually not well worked out, just as they are not well received. But why? If the struggle in the political field is so ...
https://socialtheoryapplied.com/2020/10/16/why-do-left-wing-movies-fail-so-much/
Kafkaesque, a term which can be used to construe a postcolonial confusion called Pakistan. It is such a pity that in order to construct and deconstruct Pakistan, one has to wear European lenses. ...
https://socialtheoryapplied.com/2020/09/17/to-cut-off-the-kings-head-foucault-goes-to-pakistan/
Everything seemed solid until recently as if the certainty of tomorrow was an obvious guarantee, a concrete dream. It is curious how everyday life carries this optical illusion, this feeling that...
Due to a trace of suspicion produced by theorists like Marx, Freud and Nietzsche, in addition to a flood of deconstruction, existentialism, and so many other approaches, we believe that language ...
About two years ago, I wrote about my ongoing reading of An Inquiry into Modes of Existence – AIME – Bruno Latour’s philosophical anthropology. AIME has been described as a summation of Lat...
It has been around 10 weeks since the official lockdown in the UK. As the situation has evolved and more data has become available, one thing has become explicitly clear- BAME groups are being di...