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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Contemporary civilization"”.
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Urbanism of disassembly : strategies for Alang's shipbreaking industry
Waste is an integral part of our contemporary civilization based on consumption and material culture. From an empty soda can to the spent nuclear fuel rod, we define waste as the matter without immediate use: rotten, broken, unwanted. The notion of waste is also spatial-waste is simply matter in …
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Depression and 'crises of meaninglessness' in the political-economic theology of the money-God
… of the climbing rates of depression in contemporary Western civilization is still up for grabs. That’s what the thesis sets out to investigate. In order to accomplish this aim, the study builds upon the classical accounts of Georg Simmel, Émile Durkheim and the more contemporary ideas of …