Italian writer Umberto Eco and British political scientist Hedley Bull were right: in spite of the dashing technological progress we are returning to the Middles Ages. And fast. The era ahead of us is a period of fragmented identity, future shock, alienation, segregation, uncertainty and the growing impact of religion on the public life. How […]
July 1, 2017
What are the most powerful countries in the world? Which place in the ranking of 168 countries did your country achieve and why? What global trends in terms of politics, culture, geography diplomacy and economics shape the global dynamics today? These are the questions answered by “State Power Index 1991-2017” report I co-authored. The […]
May 21, 2012
I invite you to have a look at my new book “The Advent of New Proletariat”, available now (in Polish) in selected bookshops. The subtitle of the book: “Hellenic and Western Civilization according to Arnold Toynbee” tells more about the content: I critically analyze Toynbee’s model of the rise and collapse of civilizations to check […]
April 19, 2012
Philosoverse 2012, a new issue of a philosophical poetry volume has been recently published by London School of Economics. This year’s edition is entitled Around the World in 80 lines; its main part consists of a set of short, four verse poems exploring different characteristics of mainly non-Western civilizations. Apart from the information contained in […]
March 13, 2012
We know we are being followed in the web. But the extent to which we are tracked and the consequences of this fact have been something we are hardly aware of. Until now. A great application called Collusion allows you to track the trackers! From March 2012 on we are being officially followed by Google, […]
July 5, 2017
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