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798) Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of the state capitals
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792) Jazz Protest Music: The Freedom Now Suite
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782) Making Mothers of Fake Babies
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780) Debunking the "Eat Local" Myth
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773) The discourse of engineering needs to be expanded
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766) Facebook Viral Campaign
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764) Tracking the trackers: Unmasking wiki
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762) Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
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761) The videogame based on the McDonald's production chain
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760) Plastic Bottles: Five minutes worth of consumption in North America
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751) Humanities: meaning, value, and significance
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744) The mystery of discourse is not order, but disorder, incoherence
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735) Yes Prime Minister: entertaining parody of the Australian Prime Minister
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733) Chernobyl Legacy: photographic essay with audio commentary
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731) Kingdom of Piracy: online, open work space to explore the free sharing of digital content
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724) A devout Christian is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else
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722) Regionalisation: Educational Reform in New Zealand
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718) Rip, Mix, Burn, Autolink
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698) Bodymouse: the potential of biomedical science?
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695) Jihad videos posted on YouTube website
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680) Bright: undermining the heterosexual love triangle in the heterosexual narrative
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677) Parody Through Recurring Motifs of Suspense and Clichés of Plot
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672) Symbolic Control Through Appropriation of Local Stories
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663) Citizen Reporting of the London Bombings
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613) New Zealand is not naive to the great cost of waging war
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602) art and design students look at surveillance
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596) Database of Virtual Art: a richly interlinked online repository
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588) Boal: the intervention of the art of tragedy
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574) (un)Smart-Mobs: Text-Messages Used to Incite Racial Violence at NSW's Cronulla beach
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567) Terra Nova: collaborative weblog about virtual worlds
(559) Diagnosing Iranian history in terms of European past
http://folksonomy.org.uk/?s=559
Utterance:
Europe has been constituted as the horizon of expectation for the Iranian passage to modernity. Thus European history, as the future past of the desired present, has functioned as a normative scenario for the prognosis or forecasting of future Iran. This anticipatory modernity introduced a form of historical thinking that diagnosed Iranian history in terms of the European past. By universalising that past, historical deviations from the European norm have been mis-recognised as abnormalities. Thence, the development of feudalism, capitalism, the bourgeoisie, the proletariat, democracy, freedom, scientific rationality, and industry in the "well-ordered" Europe have informed the diagnoses of their lack, absence, retardation, and underdevelopment in Iran.[33] In other words, alternative non-European historical processes have been characterised as the absence of change and as historical history.
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©Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi pp.263-291
Image: , (). . , : HistoryWiz []
Motivation:
Book: Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad. 2001 Cultural Dynamics (Vol. 13, No. 3), , : SAGE Publications.
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546) Regulation Through Discourses/Practices
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529) the
War on Terror and other conservative catchphrases
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520) historical materialism: offering critical resources for the de-reification of capitalism
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519) ethics question satirising Australian Prime Minister
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518) industrialisation: pin making and the the division of labour
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506) Culture Jamming: Australian International University
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505) Culture Jamming the Forbes Global CEO Conference
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496) Enemy Image: where is the human tragedy?
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494) NICHT loschbares Feuer / Inextinguishable Fire
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490) Christian forces humiliating Muslims in their own heartland
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400) Heartfield: political commentary through photomontage
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350) Seven Up! series: glimpses of Britain's future
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331) Freire: answers to exploitation in photographs
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319) Escape from Woomera: videogame social commentary
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207) Social Inclusion and Exclusion
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199) Faces of the Fallen: photomosaic
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201) eugenics: forced sterilization
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73) urban theory: world systems
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2) Futurist manifesto: War is beautiful