September 18, 2024

Culture

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New Yorker - The French political scientist Olivier Roy argues that “a range of abstract and apparently unstoppable forces—globalization, neoliberalism, postmodernism, individualism, secularism, the Internet, and so on—are undermining culture by rendering it ‘transparent,’ turning our cultural practices into ‘a collection of tokens’ to be traded and displayed.” Is this a tragedy or simply a fact of modern life? And is it even true? Read more »

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