Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Oluf Emerson ◽  
Kevin T. Smiley
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
To Come

The book’s claim is that cities in the twenty-first century are diverging in their fundamental priorities in one of two directions: toward markets or toward people. In introducing the concepts of Market Cities and People Cities, we make our primary argument that cities are not the homogeneous lot that many urban scholars might lead us to believe. Rather, our investigation of Copenhagen and Houston supplies the evidence that there are wide and important differences across cities. In this chapter, we state this argument, address a few critical questions, illustrate the concepts using a journey through our two cities, and preview the chapters to come.

Barbarism or Socialism: 1917–2017–2050 (?)

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minqi Li
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
First Century ◽  
New Era ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
To Come

Two decades after the end of the Soviet Union, the global capitalist economy narrowly escaped total collapse in the ‘Great Recession’ of 2008–2009. The world in the twenty-first century has entered into a new era of crisis, which is economic, political and environmental. What will happen between now and the mid-twenty-first century that may shape and largely determine the future of humanity for centuries to come. On the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the October Revolution, this article re-evaluates the trajectory of the twentieth century socialism and identifies its legacies. It also considers the unique character of contemporary contradictions and argues that the formation of new industrial working classes may fatally undermine the system’s political legitimacy and raise again the ‘spectre of communism’ that Marx and Engels predicted, this time not only in Europe but also in the entire globe.

Overflow

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasper Bernes
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Theoretical Investigation ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Structural Transformations ◽  
First Century ◽  
Romantic Poetry ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Aesthetic

The Epilogue considers the possible fate of the artistic critique of labor in the decades to come. As demand for labor weakens because of ongoing structural transformations, the link between art and labor will likewise weaken, Bernes argues. Thus, artists would do well to revive older traditions linking the poet to wagelessness. The Epilogue examines these traditions, beginning with the Renaissance ballad and continuing through the Romantic poetry of vagrancy and the African American fugitive lyric, linking this poetic history to a theoretical investigation of what Karl Marx calls “surplus populations.” The long history of the poetics of wagelessness gives some indication of the aesthetic outlines of the coming era. In closing, Bernes looks at two contemporary poets, Fred Moten and Wendy Trevino, who engage this long tradition and mobilize it to meet the specific conditions of twenty-first-century capitalism.

Hydrocarbons and the Illusion of Sustainability

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent A. Klitgaard
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Labor Process ◽  
Marxian Theory ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Rapid Accumulation ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
To Come ◽  
American Society ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Institutional Order

After fifty years, Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy's Monopoly Capital has stood the test of time. Not only did it provide a lucid description of midcentury American society, but Monopoly Capital established a framework for analyzing events to come.… By bringing Marxian theory into their historical moment, they fomented many debates and encouraged the development of various perspectives, a legacy that has expanded to include analyses of the labor process, imperialism, finance, globalization, and the environment.… They elucidated a fundamental contradiction of the time. Capitalism is a system of self-expanding value that must continually accumulate, yet is confined by a social and institutional order that precludes rapid accumulation. This framework is especially useful for analyzing the fundamental problems of the twenty-first century. Among those crucial problems is the demise of the hydrocarbon economy.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

“More Cowbell”

Latin Jazz ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 141-174
Author(s):  
Christopher Washburne
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Future ◽  
Latin Jazz ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
To Come ◽  
Made In

This chapter is an ethnographic study of New York–based Latin jazz in the twenty-first century. It uses five prominent bandleaders actively shaping the future of Latin jazz as case studies—Eddie Palmieri, Michele Rosewoman, Carlos Henríquez, Miguel Zenón, and Bobby Sanabria—demonstrating how the historical specificities and developments discussed in the preceding chapters continue to reverberate and inform the music made in the present. Their voices and perspectives demonstrate how each of these musicians adopts unique strategies to navigate the terrain of inequity and adversity. They represent significant trends that will assert much influence on generations of musicians to come. Their combined perspectives suggest that Latin jazz is not, nor ever should it have been, an “other jazz.” Its presence can no longer be silenced or erased. All of the music and musicians associated with jazz deserve to be fully embraced and recognized.

scholarly journals MAKUNAIMA, O MEU AVÔ EM MIM!

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (46) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaider Esbell
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Appropriation ◽  
Cognitive Effects ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Grand Design ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
Indian Art

ResumoEu aconteço, artisticamente falando, acredito, dentro de um processo que nos convida a pensar criticamente a decolonização, a apropriação cultural, o cristianismo, o monoteísmo, a monocultura e todos os dilemas do existir globalizado. Ou não? O meu surgimento vem junto com a expectativa que se cria em volta de outro termo, no Brasil ao menos, a arte indígena contemporânea. Não a moderna, a passada e extinta, nem a por vir, mas a deste início do século XXI. Ensaio escrever para socializar um pouco o socializável da minha relação com meu avô, esse que não é gente exatamente para não sê-lo. Portanto Makunaima é meu avô e o gênero, a forma e o conteúdo têm seus lugares de ação como vamos citar sempre, pois são fundamentais, mas é preciso ir além. Makunaima está além e prova isso ao transformar-se continuamente. Não, ele não é transformista. Vamos dissociar aos poucos o existir-atuação de Makunaima dos efeitos cognitivos do gênero em nossas mentes. Sim, nas mentes. Aos leitores é requerido um vácuo total interior, um nudar-se por dentro para ter espaço. Em uma grande concepção, é requerido um esvaziamento total de um ser para outro ser caber.Palavras-chave: Makunaima; Arte Indígena Contemporânea; Gênero; Literatura AbstractI happen, artistically speaking, I believe, in a process that invites us to think critically about decolonization, cultural appropriation, Christianity, monotheism, monoculture and all the dilemmas of globalized existence. Or not? My emergence comes along with the expectation that is created around another term, in Brazil at least, contemporary Indian art. Not the modern, the past and extinct, not yet to come, but the beginning of the twenty-first century. Essay writing to socialize a little the socializable of my relationship with my grandfather, the one who is not exactly people to not be. So Makunaima is my grandfather and the genre, form and content have their places of action as we will always quote, because they are fundamental, but we must go further. Makunaima is beyond and proves this by continually transforming himself. No, he is not a convert. We will gradually dissociate Makunaima's existing-action from the cognitive effects of gender in our minds. Yes, in the minds. Readers are required to have a total interior vacuum, a nudge inside to have room. In a grand design, a total emptying of one being is required for another to be fit.Key words: Makunaima; Contemporary Indian Art; Genre; Literature

scholarly journals Assembling and disassembling

MODOS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-141
Author(s):  
Nora Sternfeld
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
21St Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
To Come ◽  
Value Coding ◽  
The Relationship

“Towards the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century”, as Anthony Gardner and Charles Green propose, “biennials became self-conscious.” Increasingly they are reflecting on themselves as "hegemonic machines" (Oliver Marchart), and for this very reason also understand themselves as places of intervention. We have to come to terms with the fact that biennials today are both: "Brands and Sites of Resistance", "Spaces of Capital and Hope" (Panos Kompatsiaris).The article follows withdrawals and protests as well as interventions and strategies of appropriation of biennials in the second decade of the 21st century. Protests in St. Petersburg, Sydney and New York shape the biennials they boycott. In Kochi, Athens, Dhaka, and Kassel we encounter curatorial projects that challenge the apparatus of value coding. The relationship between bottom up and top down often becomes blurred. In Prague, Warsaw, Kiev, and Budapest it is even reversed. Here biennials are used as a means of counter-hegemony and institutional survival.

Facing the Challenge: Moving our Theatre Collections into the Twenty-First Century

1993 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-109
Author(s):  
Catherine J. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Future ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
To Come ◽  
Research Document

No, I am not going to talk about the amazing techno-age to come, when all documents from a single performance are compiled together on a hypermedia disk and transmitted readily over the wires in cyberspace as a virtual theatre research document. Nor am I going to suggest a future in which the theatre collections are singular—most having closed, one after the next, from lack of support. Rather than predicting the future, I wish to explore present elements of the problems now facing the fields of theatre librarianship and theatre research, and to suggest some directions we might take to solve these problems.

scholarly journals A Framework for Global Twenty-First Century Scenarios and Models of Biological Invasions

BioScience ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (9) ◽  
pp. 697-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Lenzner ◽  
David Leclère ◽  
Oskar Franklin ◽  
Hanno Seebens ◽  
Núria Roura-Pascual ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biological Invasions ◽  
Alien Species ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Databases ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
To Come ◽  
First Time ◽  
Recent Establishment

AbstractBiological invasions have emerged as an eminent feature of global change, with substantial impacts on the environment and human livelihoods. Current research demonstrates that the numbers and impacts of alien species are rising unabatedly. At the same time, we lack a thorough understanding of potential future trajectories for the decades to come. With the recent establishment of comprehensive global databases, it is, for the first time, feasible to develop and quantify future scenarios of biological invasions. Therefore, we propose a conceptual framework for how to develop alien species scenarios for the twenty-first century and how to identify relevant steps and challenges along the way. The concept will be important to inform research, policy, stakeholders, and the general public. Furthermore, we call for the scientific community to join forces and to operationalize the framework for scenarios and models of biological invasions to develop an important baseline for understanding and managing future biological invasions.

scholarly journals The nuclear condition in the twenty-first century: Techno-political aspects in historical and contemporary perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Beardsworth ◽  
Hartmut Behr ◽  
Timothy W Luke
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
International Relations ◽  
First Century ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Classical Realism ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
To Come ◽  
Nuclear Condition

This Introduction presents the seven closely interlinked papers that explore the theme of this Special Issue, and one of the enduring existential questions for International Relations: the nuclear condition in the twenty-first century. The Special Issue is the second to come from two workshops sponsored by a UK Leverhulme grant, and it builds upon the first, more theoretical Special Issue, which brought Classical Realist and Critical Theory texts into dialogue. The major concern in the first Special Issue—the focus on modernity, crises, and humanity—is taken up here in more grounded practical terms, framed around the existential fears of nuclear annihilation. Each of the contributions re-assess the contemporary nuclear condition from within the theoretical frameworks provided by Classical Realism and Critical Theory. The engagement with both traditions allows the contributors to diagnose what is new, and what remains constant, in the contemporary nuclear condition.

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