Secrets of Life and Death keyword-cultural-theory The 'great exhibition of things'

The 'great exhibition of things' inaugurated a way of seeing that made an indelible mark on Victorian England and fashioned an enduring ideology of consumerism

arguing against both Plato and Heidegger’s famous arguments

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facilitated the emergence of a homogenized mass culture (one produced by the few for the many in the name of profit) for the first time

She witnessed the outcome of the 2009 riots in the Muslim province of Xinjiang

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