Debt jubilees merely treated societal symptoms ...

The following is an extract from the "Volume 2. Modernity" of my series "From Modernity to After-Modernity" that I'm presently editing.

I give this extract as a blog post because it is adding some more substance to the post "Michael Hudson Asks Naked Capitalism's readers... " that I published on 2021-04-15. 

Art versus propaganda

The difference between propaganda and art resides in the function of their signs.

The first is at the service of individualism while the latter serves the community (1) : 

 

Digital wall 301 is online

The complete gallery of 256 digital variations that compose wall 301 is online and so the total digital variations grew to 3,884.

Here under are a few sample panels from this last collection. The size of the printed panels of each of these variations is 60 x 90 cm and added together they form a wall of 9.6 x 14.4 meters. 

Click on the images to get a larger size at 1200 x 800 px.

"The Continuum of the Cultural Field" got finally published.

The first volume of the series "From Modernity to After-Modernity" just got published in e-book form and is available from my website. The 1st edition totals 705 pages.

The complete series will total 5 volumes : 

Volume 1 : The continuum of the cultural field
Volume 2 : From Early-Modernity to After-Modernity
Volume 3 : The societal formation of knowledge
Volume 4 : The essence of the arts is societal and not individual
Volume 5 : Societal evolution and societal governance

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"The continuity of the cultural field" (10). The axioms of civilizations

3.2.1. Signals of imperial stabilization

An empire is a system of governance reigning over multiple cohesive polities. By cohesive polities I mean societies whose citizens have been bound together for multiple generations through the sharing of a common worldview. Over time such a binding necessarily resulted in the creation of institutions and habits that grew their specific national flavors.