2012 Millennialism Becomes Conspiracist Teleology

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-48
Author(s):  
Kevin A. Whitesides
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
New Age ◽  
Improvisational Style ◽  
Conspiracy Narratives ◽  
Temporal Focus ◽  
Modern Era

Due to shared conceptions of the degeneracy of the modern era and a common distrust of mainstream narratives, New Age and conspiratorial milieus have often cross-fertilized. Conspiracy narratives can provide accounts of the types of corruption to be remedied by the advent of the next world age, and prophetic narratives of a new age can provide a teleological focus for the eventual success or defeat of the conspiracy. New Age interest in the millenarian significance of the Maya Long Count calendar took hold in the 1970s as an array of expectations for an approaching golden age around the year 2012. As such expectations became a more well-established commodity in countercultural circles, the associated dates were eventually incorporated into a variety of conspiracy narratives. Each innovator of 2012 conspiracism adapted this dating scheme into his or her own context in a manner that is exemplary of the improvisational style that Michael Barkun noticed to be prevalent in contemporary American conspiracy discourse; “2012” became utilized as a teleological trope which could be incorporated wherever such a temporal focus was desired.

EARLY RESPONSES TO VIRGIL'S FOURTHECLOGUE

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. B. T. Houghton
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
New Age ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
New Era ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Pastoral Poetry ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Relationship

The fourthEcloguepresents itself explicitly as a political poem, a loftier intervention in the humble world of pastoral poetry (4.1–3). This grander type of pastoral, moreover, is singled out as possessing a specifically Roman political significance: these ‘woods’ are to be ‘worthy of a consul’ (silvae sint consule dignae, 3), and the coming Golden Age is set within a precisely identifiable political context, the consulship of C. Asinius Pollio in 40bc(te consule, 4.11). Beyond that, however, the details of the relationship between the miraculous child, whose growth to maturity will be accompanied by the fabulous portents of the new era, and the contemporary political setting at Rome are left tantalizingly, perhaps prudently, vague. It was no doubt with a view to promoting his own political interests that Pollio's son, ‘the rash and ambitious Asinius Gallus’, claimed to have been the originalpuerof Virgil's poem. If so, he was very far from being the last public figure to appropriate the resounding cadences of the fourthEclogueto endorse his own position: it was not long before (in Harry Levin's words) ‘The Pollio eclogue had virtually created a minor genre, a means for the court poet to flatter his sovereign, as well as a device for balancing the moderns against the ancients.’ But even before the opportunistic assertions of Pollio's son, the poem's prophecies of a new age had already been re-appropriated to tie down the oracular generalities of the eclogue to a particular individual and a definite set of political circumstances, in a move that was to have significant repercussions for the later fortunes of Virgil's essay in pastoral panegyric.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Stanley J. Rabinowitz
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Initial Phase ◽  
New Age ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
The World ◽  
Original Works ◽  
Broad Scale

HISTORIANS OF CULTURE LOOK at Russia’s Silver Age—the period of aesthetic activity roughly between 1895 and 1915—as one of the great artistic revivals of modern history, the initial phase of what eventually became more generally known as modernism. Even more than the previous Golden Age of Pushkin, Lermontov, and other Romantic poets some sixty years earlier, this period reveals a flowering of cultural refinement rarely seen on such a broad scale. Not only writers and poets but musicians, painters, and figures in the world of theater and dance cultivated a greater sensitivity to art, which placed a premium as much on the artists’ unique personalities as on the variety and quality of the original works they produced. An early and defining emblem of the new age was Sergei Diaghilev’s lavishly illustrated ...

Big Bad Pharma

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-29
Author(s):  
Beth Singler
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
New Age ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
New Age Movement

Academic interest in the New Age movement has focused primarily on the emic narratives of hope and utopianism that the term “New Age” appears to exemplify. A particular example is the concept of the Indigo Children, described as an intuitive, spiritual generation appearing since the late 1970s to usher in a golden age. In this article I argue that the perceived uniqueness of the Indigo Child and the concept’s demedicalization of problems such as autism and ADHD have created narratives in which “Big Pharma” is seen as conspiring to create disorders, damaging vaccinations, and harmful genetically modified organisms.

The New Age of Democracy—Voting System

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1671-1674
Author(s):  
Atmakuri Sreeram ◽  
L. Kiran Kumar ◽  
Jayakrishna Natarajan ◽  
C. Ashwini
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
New Age ◽  
Usual Method ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Finger Print ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Democratic Country

Elections are one of the biggest events to take place in any democratic country. In India, which has a population of 1.2 Billion, elections are especially important as it selects the leader of about one-sevenths of the World’s Population. The usual method of voting is through the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM). In this modern era, where technology is being used in every sphere of life, considering the fact that Voting is one of the fundamental rights of every citizen of a democratic country, technology should be used to stop any unfair means being used in the elections. The objective of this project is to develop a system which will be suitable for elections in countries like India. In this project we use Arduino and Finger Print Scanner which will identify its voters and prevent digital malpractices. We also propose a mobile application which will enable the voters to cast their vote from anyplace they want. The proposed system is more digital, technology-based and secure.

scholarly journals The Debate about Argument and Spirit of Works of Al-Gazālī’s and Ibn Rushd’s as well as the Implication on Islamic Thoughts

ULUMUNA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-208
Author(s):  
Fathurrahman Muhtar
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Ibn Sina ◽  
Ibn Rushd ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Science ◽  
Modern Era

The decline of Islamic science is seen as impacts of al-Gazālī’s criticism to philosophy and controversy surrounding the thought of al-Gazālī and Ibn Rushd. During the Golden Age in the medieval period, Muslim scholars and philosophers had been the world references for science and technology development. They lost this legacy because they embraced orthodoxy rather than rationality. Al-Gazālī had written a book called Tahāfut al-Falāsifah (The Collapse or Inconsistence of the Philosophers) which criticised Islamic philosophers especially Ibn Sīnā and Al-Fārābī. Later after the death of al-Gazālī, Ibn Rushd wrote book tahāfut al-tahāfut which commented on al-Gazālī’s book Tahāfut al-falāsifah. It was arguing over Muslims should advance in science and technology in this modern era as it was evident during the Golden Age Islamic Era (the 7th up to the 13th centuries) whereby Muslims were the world references in science and technology development. However, after the period Muslims abandoned rationality and have remained so up to the present. This situation caused Islamic thoughts to move from rationality to orthodoxy. Al-Gazālī has been considered as the cause of the decline in Islamic Thought as he critiqued Islamic philosophers especially Ibn Sīnā and al-Fārābī in his book Tahāfut al-Falāsifah. Later Ibn Rushd wrote book Tahāfut al-Tahāfut which commented on al-Gazālī’s book Tahāfut al-Falāsifah. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20414/ujis.v20i1.804

Luther and the Book: The Iconography of the Ninety-Five Theses

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 222-232
Author(s):  
Brian Cummings
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
New Age ◽  
Church History ◽  
Strong Resonance ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Age Of Information

Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses are not perhaps the book of the millennium, but they have some claim to being one of the books of the half-millennium. Few books in Church history can have had as much effect as this single-page broadsheet. Through this text, or so it is sometimes represented, Western Christianity was cut in two. The Ninety-Five Theses heralded the new age of print, with its capacity to transform culture in ways which have a strong resonance with our own ‘age of information’. The theses, it was said, were known throughout Germany in a fortnight and Europe in a month. With some justice, the theses have been described as the publishing event of the sixteenth century, and the first media sensation of the modern era.

Jyotiprasad Agarwala: A Revolutionary Cultural Architect of Twentieth Century Assam

Social Change ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-280
Author(s):  
Akhil Ranjan Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
New Age ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Cultural Philosophy ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
Freedom Movement ◽  
Modern Era

Jyotiprasad is one of the leading cultural architects of twentieth century Assam. The life span of Jyotiprasad Agarwala (1903–51) corresponds to a historical phase of transition of Assamese and Indian society to a modern era. This phase was marked both by achievements and setbacks. The freedom movement got enriched during this phase and attained intensity through different experiments and achieved the most desired independence amid the tragedies of partition and communal cleansing. This was also a period when both the Assamese and the rest of India attained the consciousness of modern self-entity in all aspects of art, literature, science and culture. In Assam, too, which was the hinterland of colonialism, the creative and vibrant consciousness of the new age awakened the general masses. Jyotiprasad was a true representative of this age of cultural awakening of the Assamese society. The present article is an attempt to explore the revolutionary cultural philosophy of Jyotiprasad Agarwala and its relevance for social transformation.

scholarly journals Historical and cultural analysis creating sports clothes

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-119
Author(s):  
Y. G. Bich ◽  
L. G. Bitarova ◽  
A. V. Tonkovidova
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
New Age ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Reality ◽  
Modern Era

The article discusses the history of the costume in conjunction with the historical and cultural reality of everyday life. The authors highlight the moral, ethical principles that influenced the creation of sportswear. The history of sportswear of Ancient Greece is studied, it is determined that its creation was influenced by historical conditions, moral maxims of the era, which were in dialectic relationship with Olympic values. The era of Hellenism, with the relevant moral, cultural norms, has become the sphere of origin of the type of sportswear corresponding to it. Medieval culture and morality determined, in many ways, within the framework of the phenomenon of chivalry, the formation of sportswear. Since the era of the New Age, in connection with economic changes, the emergence of such a thing as mass sport, the changed moral and moral criteria of social life, sportswear has been changing and improving. The article reflects the interaction of fashion, sports and sportswear in the modern era.

An Age of Contradiction, or Who Killed Colonel Protheroe?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-217
Author(s):  
Alistair Rolls
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
New Age ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
Critical Turn

Crime Fiction studies have entered something of a new age. It is no longer necessary to begin an article with defensive remarks about sales numbers or the literary qualities of detective novels; indeed, this may be the start of a new Golden Age. In this article, I shall review two phenomena that may be considered instrumental in this critical turn: adaptations for the screen and Pierre Bayard’s self-styled critique policière, or ‘detective criticism’. Screen adaptations of Agatha Christie’s works have, by turns, enthralled and dismayed viewers. In removing their cosy edges and transforming Christie’s novels into films fit for contemporary audiences, they have gone as far, in some cases, as to change the sacrosanct ending. Here, I shall discuss the ways in which Charlie Palmer’s 2004 adaptation of The Murder at the Vicarage points to a potential rereading of the novel. I shall then deploy Bayardian detective criticism not only to demonstrate the implausibility of Miss Marple’s final solution to The Murder at the Vicarage, but also to suggest that Christie’s greatest skill lies perhaps in saving her greatest red herring until last.

scholarly journals Korelasi Historisitas Ilmu Hisab Rukyat Dengan Perkembangan Peradaban Islam

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Li'izza Diana Manzil
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Exact Science ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Important Correlation ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Science Experience

Few people, especially the layman who understands that the science of reckoning and rukyat can also be called as the science of falak (islamic astronomy). This is caused in the implementation of islamic astronomy science found manythe practice of reckoning (calculation) and rukyat (observation). If you look a few years ago, the practice of hisab rukyat has been implemented by Rasulullah SAW even before Islam came. In history noted the development of the science of hisab rukyat experienced rapid development in the Islamic world. it proven from the birth of a number of intellectual Muslim who are proficient in the astronomy, astrology, mathematics and other exact science. In addition, the number of writings and instruments created can not be denied Islamic civilization continues to experience the golden age. From this, it clearly shows the historicity of the science of hisab has an important correlation to Islamic civilization, such as in the calculations and studies of sky object for the practice of Falak Science experience the level of carefulness more accurate. So rapid the science of hisab rukyat science from the era of the Prophet until the modern era shows that Islamic civilization also experienced rapid development along the course of history.

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